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Thanks for getting back to me.
Thanks for the full log.
The IR Receiver USB device is used by Plex (PID 476)
An application is accessing the IR Receiver USB device via an IOUSBDeviceUserClient. Depending on what it is doing, this may keep OS X and applications from receiving Apple® Remote button presses. The application is located at /Applications/Plex Home Theater.app/Contents/MacOS/Plex Home Theater.
This is very odd since user space applications like Plex usually don’t have any way (or need) of accessing the Apple IR Receiver via the USB stack directly. If an application wanted to do this, it’d do this through a kernel extension (like Remote Buddy), but not through user space APIs like that.
On a quick search in Plex’ public code repository, I also can’t seem to find any code in Plex that would do this.
I also couldn’t reproduce this in my own testing.
Are you using any special/beta build of Plex - or any settings for/from a previous Intel Apple TV installation?
I have a clean install of the final Plex Home Theater - I did use some beta builds before though, but i always download the app and overwrite the old one.
I don't know, if this helps at all, but I checked my Launch Agents, where I found this entry:;
com.plexapp.ht.helper
with these parameters: "/Users/username/Library/Application Support/Plex Home Theater/PlexHTHelper" -x
The deamon is running on my system. Could this daemon possibly interfere with Remote Buddy?
I found out, that there is a setting in PHT to "Allow start of PHT using remote". As soon as this is enabled, the Launch daemon is activated. Disabling it, removes the daemon entry again. I am not able to test this right now, but I will get back to you.
Best regards,
Felix Schwarz
