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03.02.2008 18:01:55

Other remotes waking Mac mini

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I have a Remote Buddy installed on my G4 Mac mini running a totally up-to-date 10.5.1 with an Apple Remote and the Keyspan Express Remote (URM-17A).

Up until yesterday, when I updated RB to v1.8.8, everything had been running reasonably well (apart from occasional glitches with 10.5.1).

Everything still seems to work as before, except when I put the Mac mini to sleep. Now, once asleep, every other remote control (TV, satellite and VCR) I use in the vicinity has the capability to wake the Mac mini from sleep. The only solution so far has been to either keep the mini on or shut it down.

How can I prevent this from happening and enable the Mac mini to sleep as it used to do without the unwanted interruption from other remote controls?

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.
After updating to OS X 10.6.2, my Apple® Remote is no longer available for selection in Remote Buddy. (FAQ015E0236)
Please update your copy of Remote Buddy to version 1.15 or later.
Can I also use other remote controls than the Apple® Remote with the IR receiver of my Mac®? (FAQ015E0154)
No. The receiver does analyze the signals in hardware and does only seem to support the signals of an Apple® Remote (that of course includes programmable remotes that can exactly mimic the signals of the Apple® Remote).

User

03.02.2008 18:18:02

Re: Other remotes waking Mac mini

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Since Remote Buddy 1.8.5, Remote Buddy supports the wake-up-feature of
the Keyspan Express receiver as requested by a lot of users.

The Keyspan Express wake up feature wakes up the computer regardless
of which remote you use. That's a hardware limitation of the Keyspan
Express as that receiver does not do any pattern or remote control
code recognition at all. That has the benefit that you can use
virtually any remote with it as long as the software on the computer
can make sense of it, yet it has this single drawback.

Apple's built-in IR receiver takes the opposite approach: pattern and
ID recognition in hardware, no wakeup on other remotes, but it
consequently will never be able to handle anything else than the Apple
Remotes.

I'll see whether I can include an option to turn the wake-up support
on and off via the preferences in a future release, but can't promise
anything.

Best regards,
Felix Schwarz

User

03.02.2008 19:09:13

Re: Other remotes waking Mac mini

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Thanks for the prompt response. It would be great if the feature can be switched on/off by the user.

Perhaps unlike many people I keep a white Apple USB mouse (model just prior to the Mighty Mouse) attached mainly to act as a big wake from sleep button for my wife and visitors as it's an easy one-touch operation.

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