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23.09.2014 20:42:45

scriptremote options

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I'm having a small problem with scriptremote, i've managed to run all the commands via applescript except the Play/Pause button. I've tried the following but none seem to work

play/pause
play
pause
center
select

Example for + button on apple remote

tell application "Remote Buddy"
scriptremote button "plus" event "press"
scriptremote button "plus" event "release"
end tell

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.

User

23.09.2014 22:29:01

Re: scriptremote options

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This posting is older than 6 months and can contain outdated information.

The button string you're looking for is "playPause".

There's a complete list of available buttons in the Remote Buddy AppleScript dictionary. You can view that dictionary via the Library in "(Apple)Script Editor.app".

For reference, here's the complete part on scriptremote:

-- dict --
scriptremote v : The Script Remote is a virtual remote control input device in Remote Buddy. It enables you to f.ex. send events from driver software to Remote Buddy and use Remote Buddy as if it would directly support the hardware supported by that driver software.
Sample code:
-- Below line should be executed by the driver software when the play/pause button is pressed
tell application "Remote Buddy" to scriptremote button "playPause" event "press"

-- Below line should be executed by the driver software when the play/pause button is released
tell application "Remote Buddy" to scriptremote button "playPause" event "release"

-- Below line should be executed by the driver software, if it can only execute a script at the time the button is pressed
tell application "Remote Buddy" to scriptremote button "playPause" event "click"

scriptremote
button text : Name of the button to send an event for. The core set of buttons is "left", "right", "plus", "minus", "playPause", "menu". The advanced multimedia button set is "mute", "mmStop", "mmPlay", "mmPause", "mmSkipBackward", "mmSkipForward", "mmFastForward", "mmRewind", "mmVolumePlus", "mmVolumeMinus".
event text : The kind of event. "press" to press the button, "release" to release the button and "click" to quickly press and release the button.
-- / dict --

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