Apple Remote control support issue in XBMC for OS X 0.1.4+

[jeremymc7]

Effective with version 0.1.4 we now have native remote support for the Apple remote.

For me this is not working, or I don't know where / how to enable it. Does anyone else have any experience with this working or now and how did you get there.

Thanks much.

[elan]

Thanks for listing your version number. It should "just work" if you have a Mac with an Apple Remote.

[jeremymc7]

Originally Posted by elan

Thanks for listing your version number. It should "just work" if you have a Mac with an Apple Remote.

Hello Elan, I was rather hoping you WOULDN'T say that. I had expected to launch XBMC and have it just work. No go. Tried going through the menus for a setting. Keyboard and mouse work perfect. I also disable any other programs that use the remote and restarted everything. Still nothing.

Remote (and downmix) are the only things I need.

Help?

[elan]

Originally Posted by jeremymc7

Hello Elan, I was rather hoping you WOULDN'T say that. I had expected to launch XBMC and have it just work. No go. Tried going through the menus for a setting. Keyboard and mouse work perfect. I also disable any other programs that use the remote and restarted everything. Still nothing.

Remote (and downmix) are the only things I need.

Help?

What model Mac are you using? It most definitely *DOESN'T* work with any of the Keyspan RF remotes.

The only things I can recommend are pasting xbmc.log, and running from the console in case it spits anything useful out.

-elan

[jeremymc7]

Originally Posted by elan

What model Mac are you using? It most definitely *DOESN'T* work with any of the Keyspan RF remotes.

The only things I can recommend are pasting xbmc.log, and running from the console in case it spits anything useful out.

-elan

Running the following:

Mac Mini
10.5.2
2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
4GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM
Apple Remote (not keyspan front row or anything else)


As for the log let me know the filename and or where it is and terminal what command I need to run to execute from there (limited terminal experience)

Thanks again.

[jeremymc7]

Originally Posted by elan

What model Mac are you using? It most definitely *DOESN'T* work with any of the Keyspan RF remotes.

The only things I can recommend are pasting xbmc.log, and running from the console in case it spits anything useful out.

-elan

I launched:

open /applications/xbmc.app/ from terminal.

It just launched the program and went back to command line.


I can't find an xbmc.log file in spot like or the XBMC package.

[mtehonica]

jeremymc7,

Does your remote to open Front Row and control that? I have the same issue with my remote not working on my MBP but I figured it's my MBP since I install OSXBMC on my Mac Mini and it works fine.

[jeremymc7]

Originally Posted by mtehonica

jeremymc7,

Does your remote to open Front Row and control that? I have the same issue with my remote not working on my MBP but I figured it's my MBP since I install OSXBMC on my Mac Mini and it works fine.

Ok, the remote is working in XBMC now. Oddly enough booting the program from terminal is what did the trick.

Prior to working in XBMC the remote did (and still does) work in Frontrow, iTunes, etc.

You might try booting from terminal, closing, rebooting, then reopening from desktop icon. Seemed to work for me for some ODD reason.

I still don't know where the XBMC log is though.

[mtehonica]

Originally Posted by jeremymc7

Ok, the remote is working in XBMC now. Oddly enough booting the program from terminal is what did the trick.

Prior to working in XBMC the remote did (and still does) work in Frontrow, iTunes, etc.

You might try booting from terminal, closing, rebooting, then reopening from desktop icon. Seemed to work for me for some ODD reason.

I still don't know where the XBMC log is though.

That's good to hear. As for the log file, it's located in /var/tmp. For testing, I like to run OSXBMC in windowed mode and open terminal and type 'tail -f /var/log/xbmc.log' so you can actually see in real time what's outputting to the log file.

[jeremymc7]

Now I want to try getting the Sony Blueray remote to work. The Apple remote is cool and basic, but having to use button combinations isn't going to work for everyone else in the house.

The Keyspan express looked like a quality second choice with a few more dedicated buttons, while still being pretty simple. But overall it's a couple buttons short of full control.

The Sony remote will control everything basic in XBMC plus more. The remote may be to busy for the rest of the household though.

In the end I may just have to get the Keyspan Express and the Sony Blueray remote and just try both. If the keyspan only had a couple more buttons it would be perfect. Oh well.