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11.09.2006 21:48:01

Apple Remote Question

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Why is there no function in the apple remote menu for "Menu" button? The only thing I see is "Menu (held)". I think this is a huge thing that is missing. Am I missing something? If not is it a functionality that can be added?

BTW, GREAT PRODUCT!!!

Thank you

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

12.09.2006 02:06:04

Re: Apple Remote Question

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Hello Larry,

thanks for your question.

The Menu button is "hard-wired" to showing and hiding the Remote
Buddy menu. That's the only way to ensure a user can never get lost:
all a user has to do is press the Menu button and the Remote Buddy
menu appears - usually with a diagram showing the current mapping for
orientation. From there, the user can go everywhere.

If the button for switching back to the Remote Buddy menu was freely
configurable, a lot of the ease of use would be easily lost. You'd
have to remember (or even worse: try out and possibly trigger
unwanted actions) which button brings you back home into the main menu.

That's why the "Menu" entry internally exists (hard-wired to showing
and hiding the RB menu) but is filtered out in the configuration
dialogs.

Best regards,
Felix

User

12.09.2006 02:27:54

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That's great and I would agree.

Then here is the problem that I am having. Maybe you can help me solve it or come up with a solution.

In order to play a video_ts folders through front row, I have a script that can be found here: http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?p=8284571 called DVD Assist. How it works is by looking for frontrow to start playing a movie clip that is in a video_ts folder, it then opens the folder using dvd player. For some reason or another remote buddy is not seeing the switch over to dvd player and it get's stuck in some inbetween state. At that point if I press "menu" it makes the dvd player controls visible (little brushed medal gizmo) and that is all. I have to press and hold the menu button to bring up the remote buddy dialog box. In the dialog box it says it is still in front row. Let me know if that is clear.

Any help would be appreciated.

Last edited: 12.09.2006 02:28:44

User

13.09.2006 22:48:01

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Hello Larry,

thanks for pointing me to that software - I've never heard of it before.

You can solve the problem by, when playing a VIDEO_TS folder via DVD
Player / DVD Assist, keeping the menu button pressed, enter the menu
and activate the DVD Player behaviour. To then return to Front Row,
press the menu button and deactivate the DVD Player behaviour.

Considering DVD Assist is a hack and Front Row does have its own set
of problems (i.e. by starting iTunes in the background) which require
Remote Buddy to handle it with special care to be reliable, direct
support for DVD Assist is unlikely, though.

Best regards,
Felix

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