I enabled multiple remotes in RBs hardware settings and paired a second Apple remote (spare white one I had lying around) with my Mac mini and mapped it to the corresponding ID. From there I could map the second remote with the global actions I needed and have my universal remote learn those commands.

It's a bit tricky because the Apple remotes only give the UR 6 resp. 7 different buttons to copy. Of course one could extend this by adding more compatible IR remotes and paring these as well. As long as they have different IDs you should be able to add different actions for each one. Good thing is, you only need them once to map/copy the commands, so you can borrow your buddy's remote etc..

That being said, if there is an easier way to do this, please let me know…

Last edited: 16.07.2014 12:50:44