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09.04.2007 17:11:26

Remote Buddy + Andrew Escobar FrontRow Hack

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I'm having no luck activating FrontRow on my PowerMac G5 -- installed using Andrew Escobar's hack.

http://www.andrewescobar.com/frontrow

When I activate the FrontRow behavior using my remote, nothing happens. In fact, it seems to temporarily disable Remote Buddy from working until I open the preference panel. Weird, huh?

I've set up FrontRow to launch when the F2 key is pressed, but I can't figure out how to tell this to RemoteBuddy. Any ideas?

These entries from the FAQ may be relevant to this topic:

Hardware - Apple® Remote

After uninstalling/quitting Remote Buddy, my Mac® no longer reacts to the Apple® Remote. (FAQ015E0241)
To enable you to use all capabilities of the IR Receiver of your Mac®, Remote Buddy is using its own driver. In contrast, all other applications with integrated Apple® Remote support usually use the OS X Apple® Remote subsystem.

As long as you're running Remote Buddy, Remote Buddy and its driver are responsible for turning the received button presses into actions. As soon as you quit Remote Buddy, this task is again handled by the OS X Apple® Remote subsystem.

If other applications don't use the interface to the OS X Apple® Remote subsystem correctly, this can lead to the effect that nothing happens when you press a button on your Apple® Remote. For as long as you're running Remote Buddy, issues like this are covered by Remote Buddy and it's driver and are therefore not visible to you. However, as soon as you quit Remote Buddy, the OS X Apple® Remote subsystem is back in control and any issues caused in it by other applications become visible.

Therefore Remote Buddy is neither the cause of the issue nor is it responsible for it. Instead, the cause of the issue exists independently of Remote Buddy. It's located elsewhere and can also only be solved there.

Although our products can't cause any such issues, we're regularly contacted about such issues and asked for help. In order to make locating and fixing the cause of such issues as easy and efficient as possible, we've developed a free diagnostics tool: Remote Control Diagnostics. It can locate issues with a single click and will provide you with information about the issue as well as with instructions on how you can fix it.

User

09.04.2007 22:10:02

Re: Remote Buddy + Andrew Escobar FrontRow Hack

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Hello Scott,

thanks for your posting.

Remote Buddy does not emulate keystrokes to active Front Row. Thus,
the hotkey you use shouldn't matter at all.

Which version of Front Row and Mac OS X are you running?
Can you activate Front Row using your keyboard?

If you can activate it by keyboard, you can easily set up a custom
action to emulate an F2 keypress on your system.

Best regards,
Felix

User

10.04.2007 19:34:36

Re: Remote Buddy + Andrew Escobar FrontRow Hack

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Felix, thanks for your help. Based on your comments/questions, I began to suspect that I had a faulty installation of the Andrew Escobar FrontRow hack.

After installing the latest versions of FrontRow and the FrontRowEnabler, my remote could activate FrontRow as expected. Problem solved!

Last edited: 10.04.2007 19:35:05

User

10.04.2007 20:48:02

Re: Re: Remote Buddy + Andrew Escobar FrontRow Hack

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Glad you could solve the problem. :-)

Best regards,
Felix

User

04.05.2007 18:43:13

Re: Remote Buddy + Andrew Escobar FrontRow Hack

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ScottR, I'm having the exact same issue on my G4 mac mini. (I had installed a Front Row hack earlier.) Can you tell me how you got your install straightened-out?

Thanks!

User

04.05.2007 20:25:02

Re: Re: Remote Buddy + Andrew Escobar FrontRow Hack

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It should work flawlessly provided that you are using the latest
versions of all software involved.

Best regards,
Felix

User

06.05.2007 05:54:51

Re: Remote Buddy + Andrew Escobar FrontRow Hack

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I can personally confirm what Felix said. After I installed the latest version of Front Row and Andrew Escobar's hack, I was up & running again. Best of luck!

http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/frontrow13.html
http://andrewescobar.com/archive/2007/04/02/enabler1-5/

Last edited: 06.05.2007 05:56:04

User

08.05.2007 16:10:57

Re: Remote Buddy + Andrew Escobar FrontRow Hack

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Thanks guys. I reinstalled some system components using the FAQ here: http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/removefrontrowhack.html
Then used Andrew's Enabler to get the latest FrontRow installed.

I came across a little issue where my previous FrontRow hack had set itself as a Start-up Item (under User Accounts) and was causing FrontRow to launch twice---which bogged-my mac down. But when I removed it from the Start-up Items list and rebooted...

Presto! Everything works much more smoothly.

Thanks guys. I hope my tidbit above will help someone else too.

User

09.05.2007 18:56:01

Re: Re: Remote Buddy + Andrew Escobar FrontRow Hack

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Thanks for sharing!

Just as a quick sidenote: Front Row should never be in your list of
startup items (in User Accounts) in the first place. It's launched
through different mechanisms.

Best regards,
Felix

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