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User 09.01.2012 20:29:40 | Wii Remote will not connect with my Mac Pro! | |
This posting is older than 6 months and can contain outdated information. Hello, i want to pair my new wii remote plus control with my mac pro 1.1 (built-in Bluetooth) on mac osx 10.7.2 but after the message "Pairing successful. Establishing connection …" it disconnect remote control automatically within 5 seconds again. I get this message from my system log: Jan 9 19:28:45 Schneewittchen blued[21]: addDeviceToHIDEmulationMode - unrecognized HID device; NOT storing the link keys to the module.
Jan 9 19:28:45 Schneewittchen blued[21]: isCSR: 0 isBRCM: 0
Jan 9 19:28:45 Schneewittchen blued[21]: major class: 5 minor class: 2
Jan 9 19:28:45 Schneewittchen com.apple.launchd[1] (com.iospirit.candelair.sync): Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds Remote Buddy also the system Bluetooth device manager show me that wii remote control register but not connected. I've tried with new belkin bluetooth adapter but get exact the same issue. I want to buy this great app, but it will not connect properly with wii remote :( Do you have any solution? cu
Alexander | These entries from the FAQ may be relevant to this topic: Hardware - Apple® Remote
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.
Please update your copy of Remote Buddy to version 1.15 or later.
Hardware - Wii™ Remote Please go through all of the following points to check your setup for possible errors:
- Please make sure that your computer is equipped with Bluetooth® and that it is active. You can enable and disable Bluetooth® at any time through System Preferences.
- If you only switch on Bluetooth® occassionally: the Bluetooth® stack used by Apple® does seem to need up to a minute after it has been activated, before it can establish connections to devices. During this time, Bluetooth® appears to be active to applications, but isn't fully there just yet.
- Please make sure the Bluetooth® Receiver in Remote Buddy is active (green "light" in front of its entry in the menu).
- Before you can use a Wii™ Remote with Remote Buddy for the first time, you need to pair it through the "Setup Wizard". For pairing, open the "Setup Wizard" of Remote Buddy (you can access it in the pull down menu to be found in your system's menu bar behind the Remote Buddy icon) and follow its instructions. If the pair option is greyed out, use the Setup Wizard to install the Remote Buddy Kernel Extension, first.
- If a remote control has been connected through the setup wizard once, an active Bluetooth™ Receiver in Remote Buddy and pressing buttons 1 and 2 at the same time are sufficient to establish a connection.
- If not all four LEDs are blinking when pressing button 1 and 2 - or if they blink with different brightness - your battery may no longer hold enough power for the operation of the remote control. Fresh batteries then solve the problem.
- If the combination of buttons 1 and 2 does not lead to a successful pairing, you'll find a small red knob after removing the battery door, which, when pressed, will also trigger the pairing.
- In rare cases (we currently know of only one), the remote control itself needs to be reset. Therefore, remove the batteries for at least 30 seconds, then insert them again and try anew to establish a connection. You may possibly have to pair the remote anew, first.
In some cases, the Bluetooth®-stack of OS X does not deliver the names of devices to Remote Buddy, making it impossible for Remote Buddy to detect a new remote control. If you experience this case, you can use the OS X Bluetooth® Wizard in order to work around this problem upon your first connection. Therefore, please follow these instructions:
- Open "System Preferences"
- Select "Bluetooth"
- Click on "Set Up New Device…". The Bluetooth assistant will now open.
- Click on "Continue" to get beyond the "Introduction" message.
- Select "Any device" and click "Continue".
- Now press button 1 and 2 simultaneously on your remote control
- If the name of your remote control appears on screen, select it from the list and click on "Continue"
- Continue to click on "Continue" until you are prompted to enter a number on your Bluetooth® device. If you have reached that screen, quit the assistant.
- Now use Remote Buddy's own "Setup Wizard" to pair your remote with your computer.
In order to automatically activate the Bluetooth® Receiver on startup, enter the settings, choose "Hardware", then click on "Bluetooth® Receiver". Finally activate the checkbox "Search for supported remotes on startup". Remote Buddy will then automatically look for remote control paired through the "Setup Wizard" on next startup.
| User 09.01.2012 23:49:01 | Re: Wii Remote will not connect with my Mac Pro! | |
This posting is older than 6 months and can contain outdated information. Thanks for asking. The Bluetooth stack of OS X 10.7.2 ignores some timeout values that are of importance when pairing a Wii Remote. Most notably, and unlike in OS X 10.4-10.6, it takes a lot longer to stop a search for devices that are ready for pairing. Therefore, it can happen that a Wii Remote quits pairing mode and goes back to sleep before Remote Buddy even gets any chance to pair with it. The solution in that case is to press buttons 1 and 2 again if the 4 LEDs on the Wii Remote stop blinking before the pairing completed. Apart from that issue, the Bluetooth stack of OS X 10.7.2 is seriously buggy in general and is causing issues even for many users of Apple's own Magic Trackpad and Wireless Keyboard. If your issue is not related to OS X 10.7 ignoring aforementioned timeout, I recommend waiting for OS X 10.7.3 and try again. I can't imagine Apple not fixing a lot of bugs in the OS X Bluetooth stack with that update - given how many people have issues with Bluetooth in OS X 10.7.2 with all kinds of devices, including Apple's own. Best regards,
Felix Schwarz
| User 17.01.2013 14:20:43 | Re: Wii Remote will not connect with my Mac Pro! | |
This posting is older than 6 months and can contain outdated information. Hello, I have the exact same problem, with MacOS 10.7.5 on a MacMini with RemoteBuddy 1.2.3. I just ordered and received a Wiimote (Motion Plus). Remote Buddy says pairing successful, but never connects. Then after about 10-15 seconds, a screen notice appears saying the Nintendo has disconnected. In the console, the messages are :
1/17/13 1:53:36.881 PM com.apple.launchd: (com.iospirit.candelair.sync) Throttling respawn: Will start in 9 seconds
1/17/13 1:54:34.479 PM com.apple.launchd: (com.iospirit.candelair.sync) Throttling respawn: Will start in 9 seconds
1/17/13 1:55:36.540 PM Remote Buddy: *** WARNING: Method selectRow:byExtendingSelection: in class GradientTableView is deprecated. It will be removed in a future release and should no longer be used.
1/17/13 1:55:52.919 PM com.apple.launchd: (com.iospirit.candelair.sync) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
1/17/13 2:00:21.376 PM com.apple.launchd: (com.iospirit.candelair.sync) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
1/17/13 2:01:37.790 PM com.apple.launchd: (com.iospirit.candelair.sync) Throttling respawn: Will start in 9 seconds
1/17/13 2:02:11.652 PM com.apple.launchd: (com.iospirit.candelair.sync) Throttling respawn: Will start in 9 seconds I tried everything I could find in the forums. Using 1+2 or the red Sync button. Pressing them repeatedly. I tried connecting using Apple's BlueTooth Setup Assistant. It finds the device but then says the device refuses pairing, console message:
1/17/13 2:12:40.413 PM Bluetooth Setup Assistant: Pairing failed with 'Nintendo RVL-CNT-01-TR': error 0x5 I opened the Passcode Options and specified "Do not use a passcode with this device". It was able to pair, although the console says:
1/17/13 2:12:45.992 PM Bluetooth Setup Assistant: skipping real pairing It then appears as a connected device in Apple's Bluetooth menu, Remote Buddy sees it in the list of paired devices in its Preferences > Hardware pane, but it still does not see it as a connected Bluetooth Receiver in the Remote Buddy menu. If I try to pair it at that point with Remote Buddy's Setup wizare, I get the following message: "Preparing pairing... please wait..." Console says:
1/17/13 2:17:36.438 PM com.apple.launchd: (com.iospirit.candelair.sync) Throttling respawn: Will start in 6 seconds
1/17/13 2:17:43.654 PM com.apple.launchd: (com.iospirit.candelair.sync) Throttling respawn: Will start in 9 seconds After about a minute, a screen notice comes up saying that "Nintendo... disconnected" I have no idea what else I can try now. Any ideas. Please help ! Thanks. | User 17.01.2013 14:20:43 | Re: Wii Remote will not connect with my Mac Pro! | |
This posting is older than 6 months and can contain outdated information. Hello, I have the exact same problem, with MacOS 10.7.5 on a MacMini with RemoteBuddy 1.2.3. I just ordered and received a Wiimote (Motion Plus). Remote Buddy says pairing successful, but never connects. Then after about 10-15 seconds, a screen notice appears saying the Nintendo has disconnected. In the console, the messages are :
1/17/13 1:53:36.881 PM com.apple.launchd: (com.iospirit.candelair.sync) Throttling respawn: Will start in 9 seconds
1/17/13 1:54:34.479 PM com.apple.launchd: (com.iospirit.candelair.sync) Throttling respawn: Will start in 9 seconds
1/17/13 1:55:36.540 PM Remote Buddy: *** WARNING: Method selectRow:byExtendingSelection: in class GradientTableView is deprecated. It will be removed in a future release and should no longer be used.
1/17/13 1:55:52.919 PM com.apple.launchd: (com.iospirit.candelair.sync) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
1/17/13 2:00:21.376 PM com.apple.launchd: (com.iospirit.candelair.sync) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
1/17/13 2:01:37.790 PM com.apple.launchd: (com.iospirit.candelair.sync) Throttling respawn: Will start in 9 seconds
1/17/13 2:02:11.652 PM com.apple.launchd: (com.iospirit.candelair.sync) Throttling respawn: Will start in 9 seconds I tried everything I could find in the forums. Using 1+2 or the red Sync button. Pressing them repeatedly. I tried connecting using Apple's BlueTooth Setup Assistant. It finds the device but then says the device refuses pairing, console message:
1/17/13 2:12:40.413 PM Bluetooth Setup Assistant: Pairing failed with 'Nintendo RVL-CNT-01-TR': error 0x5 I opened the Passcode Options and specified "Do not use a passcode with this device". It was able to pair, although the console says:
1/17/13 2:12:45.992 PM Bluetooth Setup Assistant: skipping real pairing It then appears as a connected device in Apple's Bluetooth menu, Remote Buddy sees it in the list of paired devices in its Preferences > Hardware pane, but it still does not see it as a connected Bluetooth Receiver in the Remote Buddy menu. If I try to pair it at that point with Remote Buddy's Setup wizare, I get the following message: "Preparing pairing... please wait..." Console says:
1/17/13 2:17:36.438 PM com.apple.launchd: (com.iospirit.candelair.sync) Throttling respawn: Will start in 6 seconds
1/17/13 2:17:43.654 PM com.apple.launchd: (com.iospirit.candelair.sync) Throttling respawn: Will start in 9 seconds After about a minute, a screen notice comes up saying that "Nintendo... disconnected" I have no idea what else I can try now. Any ideas. Please help ! Thanks. | User 18.01.2013 15:01:01 | Re: Wii Remote will not connect with my Mac Pro! | |
This posting is older than 6 months and can contain outdated information. Thanks for asking. I just tried a Wii Remote (without Motion Plus) with a freshly installed 10.7.5 system and found that: 1) although the Setup Wizard doesn't go beyond "paired successfully ..", RB adds the device to its list of known devices (=> Preferences > Hardware > Bluetooth Receiver). The Wii Remote then closes the connection at some point. I'll have to investigate, why the Setup Wizard doesn't proceed beyond that. Probably a 10.7 specific issue since I can't reproduce the problem on a freshly installed 10.8.2 on the same test system. 2) With the Setup Wizard now closed, whenever I press buttons 1+2 on the Wii Remote after that, RB will now successfully build a connection and I can control it with the Wii Remote. As a rule of thumb, you should definitely avoid trying to pair a Wii Remote with the OS X Bluetooth Setup Assistant:
a) a Wii Remote paired this way will not turn up in Remote Buddy
b) the system's HID drivers may then claim "ownership" of the device and prevent Remote Buddy from accessing the device directly What happens if your Wii Remote is turned off and you press a button (any button)? Does it start blinking its four LEDs now - or does it do nothing? Best regards,
Felix Schwarz
| User 18.01.2013 15:39:26 | Re: Wii Remote will not connect with my Mac Pro! | |
This posting is older than 6 months and can contain outdated information. Hello, Thank you for your fast answer. My follow-up below. I just tried a Wii Remote (without Motion Plus) with a freshly installed 10.7.5 system and found that: 1) although the Setup Wizard doesn't go beyond "paired successfully ..", RB adds the device to its list of known devices (=> Preferences > Hardware > Bluetooth Receiver). The Wii Remote then closes the connection at some point. I'll have to investigate, why the Setup Wizard doesn't proceed beyond that. Probably a 10.7 specific issue since I can't reproduce the problem on a freshly installed 10.8.2 on the same test system. Same thing I see. 2) With the Setup Wizard now closed, whenever I press buttons 1+2 on the Wii Remote after that, RB will now successfully build a connection and I can control it with the Wii Remote. Not for me. If I close the Setup Wizard, and go in Preferences > Hardware > Bluetooth receiver, the Wii Remote appears in the list. If I press buttons 1+2 after that, nothing happens, and RB still doesn't see any Bluetooth remote connected in the menu, and I cannot control RB with it. If I quit Remote Buddy and start it up again, it displays a screen notice to press 1+2 on my Wii remote. If I do, the message disappears after a few seconds, but RB doesn't see the remote as connected in its menu. As a rule of thumb, you should definitely avoid trying to pair a Wii Remote with the OS X Bluetooth Setup Assistant: a) a Wii Remote paired this way will not turn up in Remote Buddy b) the system's HID drivers may then claim "ownership" of the device and prevent Remote Buddy from accessing the device directly Ok. I tried this method because it was a suggestion in FAQ015E0187 on the RB website. What happens if your Wii Remote is turned off and you press a button (any button)? Does it start blinking its four LEDs now - or does it do nothing? If I press a button, any button, the four LEDs blink for about 5 seconds and stop. If I press 1+2, the four LEDs blink for about 20 seconds and stop. Thanks for your help. Best regards,
Jean-Charles Mourey
| User 18.01.2013 23:14:06 | Re: Wii Remote will not connect with my Mac Pro! | |
This posting is older than 6 months and can contain outdated information. Hello again, I tried to upgrade to Mountain Lion, but it did not fix the problem. I still get the same behavior. As an experiment, I left the Apple Bluetooth Assistant window open while I attempted the pairing of the Wiimote using RemoteBuddy. When I press 1+2, the Wiimote immediately appears as a connected device in the Apple Bluetooth Assistant window, but RemoteBuddy still does not see it as connected in its menu. Then, after a while, the Wiimote gets disconnected again. Thanks,
Jean-Charles
| User 24.01.2013 10:35:11 | Re: Wii Remote will not connect with my Mac Pro! | |
This posting is older than 6 months and can contain outdated information. Any more info on this problem? I'm still stuck... Don't know what else to try. Thanks for any help you might be able to provide.
| User 31.01.2013 04:48:07 | Re: Wii Remote will not connect with my Mac Pro! | |
This posting is older than 6 months and can contain outdated information. I can reproduce this problem on OSX 10.8.2. The Wii Remote Plus (built in MotionPlus) use a Bluetooth model RVL-CNT-01-TR whereas the older Wii Remotes use model RVL-CNT-01. There are some reports where some Wii Remote Pluses still use the old Bluetooth model, but I cannot personally confirm. These newer Wii remotes are now the default controllers that come with the new Wii U. I get the same console error messages. It pairs, but disconnects almost immediately (sync button is required for initial pairing, 1+2 nor sync will hold the connection after remote is paired). I can get the same remote working on Dolphin 3.5-322 gamecube/wii emulator, but it cannot be paired via 1+2 anymore (only the Red sync button). Neither method works for Remote Buddy 1.23. Will definitely buy RB once I can confirm that it works with the Wii Remote Plus. DarwiinRemote does NOT support Wii Remote Plus too (as if Mountain Lion didn't make this hard enough); I have yet to find someone with a working IR mouse implementation with the newer Wii Remote Plus. EDIT: WJoy 0.5.1 I can confirm pairs with the RVL-CNT-01-TR model on OSX 10.8.2. The program and source can be found in the creator's google project page. http://code.google.com/p/wjoy/ Last edited: 31.01.2013 07:14:25 Last edited: 31.01.2013 07:14:53
| User 05.02.2013 09:37:01 | Re: Wii Remote will not connect with my Mac Pro! | |
This posting is older than 6 months and can contain outdated information. Thanks for the interesting info. The Wii Remote Plus I own still uses RVL-CNT-01 as name. If Nintendo has moved on to another name in the meantime, Remote Buddy will need to adapted accordingly. When did you buy your Wii Remote Plus? Best regards,
Felix Schwarz
| User 05.02.2013 10:20:05 | Re: Wii Remote will not connect with my Mac Pro! | |
This posting is older than 6 months and can contain outdated information. Hello, As for me, I bought the Nintendo remote WiiPlus it a couple of weeks ago on Amazon. Since no solution was found to make it work with RemoteBuddy, I returned it and purchased a Harmony Remote 900 which works great natively with Plex. Unfortunately, it doesn't work as well when using it through Remote Buddy even with all the complex configuration steps with the 12 virtual remotes, etc.. Remote Buddy does control Plex for the most basic functions, but the more advanced buttons don't work as well, so I had to give up on RemoteBuddy for the time being, unfortunately. Best regards,
Jean-Charles Mourey | User 05.02.2013 14:09:49 | Re: Wii Remote will not connect with my Mac Pro! | |
This posting is older than 6 months and can contain outdated information. Carl Kenner, author of glovePIE (a virtual mouse emulator for the windows platform) documented the differences between the older Wii Remote Plus and newer ones in his blog post: http://glovepie.org/blog/2012/01/03/wii-remote-plus/ But essentially, these RVL-CNT-01-TR models have been around since early 2012 and have completely succeeded the older models. One would have to go out of their way to find the old RVL-CNT-01 remotes, and the remote pluses with that model are even rarer to find (one sure example is the gold zelda remote plus) Any new Remote Plus branded for Wii U will definitely have the new TR model number.
| User 16.03.2013 18:17:10 | Re: Wii Remote will not connect with my Mac Pro! | |
This posting is older than 6 months and can contain outdated information. Is this going to be fixed soon? I've just a €50 Wii-remote (having bought RB some time ago), and now I'm discovering that this doesn't work (for over a year even!). And if Apple/OSX is to blame, why isn't this properly noted on the feature-list, warning people spending money on this?
| User 16.03.2013 21:21:02 | Re: Wii Remote will not connect with my Mac Pro! | |
This posting is older than 6 months and can contain outdated information. Different issues and solutions have been discussed in this thread. What issue are you referring to? Best regards,
Felix Schwarz
| User 18.03.2013 20:52:26 | Re: Wii Remote will not connect with my Mac Pro! | |
This posting is older than 6 months and can contain outdated information. I cant pair the wiimote to my Mac. Using the setup-wizard I get a status "Pairing successful. Establishing connection …" but it stays on this forever (even though its added to the hardware-list in the background). I've tried all possible solutions, but nothing helped at all.
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