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User 25.07.2012 18:23:34 | Remote Buddy + Wiimote vs. Mountain Lion, 10.8 | |
This posting is older than 6 months and can contain outdated information. Hi Felix, Since I upgraded to ML, I can´t connect my Wiimote anymore. I tried to delete/uninstall the remote, but it does not help. It is possible to pair, but than it keeps blinking and doesn´t connect. The Sony PS3 remote works fine, though. Any thoughts? Thanks, eike
| 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.
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.
| User 26.07.2012 11:14:02 | Re: Remote Buddy + Wiimote vs. Mountain Lion, 10.8 | |
This posting is older than 6 months and can contain outdated information. Thanks for asking. I've just published a blog post on this subject a few minutes ago, explaining the issue: http://www.iospirit.com/blog/article/169/Mountain-Lion-Bluetooth-Blues/ Best regards, Felix Schwarz
| User 02.08.2012 02:57:06 | Re: Remote Buddy + Wiimote vs. Mountain Lion, 10.8 | |
This posting is older than 6 months and can contain outdated information. Felix, I don't know if your support staff is rewriting a complete bluetooth stack or driver yet as your blog suggests, but I have figured out some of the problems both with Weiv and Darwiin Remote. It has to do with retaining / releasing and changes in behavior for the memory management of Bluetooth Channels. http://stream.weiv.co/mountain-lion-bluetooth-woes-and-its-fix | User 02.08.2012 15:36:01 | Re: Remote Buddy + Wiimote vs. Mountain Lion, 10.8 | |
This posting is older than 6 months and can contain outdated information. Thanks John for the interesting URL! That, however, isn't it for Remote Buddy, which has always retained the channel objects. The core issue for Remote Buddy is that OS X wants - seeing as it is a HID device - to grab the device, just like Remote Buddy. Except OS X does so on the kernel level and Remote Buddy does so on the user-space level. OS X is usually quicker and "wins". For previous versions of OS X, Remote Buddy therefore implemented a finely concerted, kernel-level workaround, which, however, no longer appears to work in Mountain Lion. Best regards, Felix Schwarz
| User 04.08.2012 14:31:01 | Re: Remote Buddy + Wiimote vs. Mountain Lion, 10.8 | |
This posting is older than 6 months and can contain outdated information. Turns out that one -retain was actually missing (thanks John) and adding it fixed the issue. Here's a pre-release containing the fix: http://www.iospirit.com/static/objectfiles/file/158/RemoteBuddy_1.21.1_preRelease.dmg Please give it a try. I appreciate your feedback. Best regards, Felix Schwarz
| User 06.08.2012 14:05:59 | Re: Remote Buddy + Wiimote vs. Mountain Lion, 10.8 | |
This posting is older than 6 months and can contain outdated information. Thanks Felix, I can confirm that this version makes the Wiimote 100% functionnal with Mountain Lion.
| User 07.08.2012 18:32:24 | Re: Remote Buddy + Wiimote vs. Mountain Lion, 10.8 | |
This posting is older than 6 months and can contain outdated information. hi, the pre-release version works as long as the wiimote is not switched off. A while after pressing the power button on the wiimote remote buddy will crash. I can provide the crashlog if needed. regards w.
| User 08.08.2012 00:23:01 | Re: Remote Buddy + Wiimote vs. Mountain Lion, 10.8 | |
This posting is older than 6 months and can contain outdated information. Thanks for the feedback! Getting the crash log would be awesome! Thanks in advance. Best regards, Felix Schwarz
| User 08.08.2012 18:28:30 | Re: Remote Buddy + Wiimote vs. Mountain Lion, 10.8 | |
This posting is older than 6 months and can contain outdated information. sent it to you via email. hope it helps ;)
| User 09.08.2012 12:20:01 | Re: Remote Buddy + Wiimote vs. Mountain Lion, 10.8 | |
This posting is older than 6 months and can contain outdated information. Thanks! That helped me find and fix the bug. Remote Buddy 1.21.1 GM is now available on the website and via the Online Updater. Best regards, Felix Schwarz
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