Comments on: Apple IR remote in Ubuntu Hardy

By: Roque Pinel

Roque Pinel — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 16:36:44 +0000

Check out this GNOME applet.

http://code.google.com/p/ir-switcher/

By: Jacob Emcken

Jacob Emcken — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 18:48:12 +0000

I rarely reboot the Mac Mini so I havn’t noticed this.

By: Scaine

Scaine — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 17:07:56 +0000

Do you find that when you reboot your MacMini, it sometimes fails to load LIRC correctly? I do and I've found that it's because I have two /dev/usb/hiddev devices (0 and 1) and I need to choose one to go into hardware.conf.

The problem seems to be that the Mac internally will activate only one of these and if it's not the one I have in hardware.conf, I need to edit, then restart LIRC. It's minor, but it's irritating.

By: Russ

Russ — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 05:09:53 +0000

DUDE! Holy crap it took me all night to find this page. Thank you, I couldn’t get my mac mini remote working in Hardy otherwise, Thanks a million for posting this.

By: Jacob Emcken

Jacob Emcken — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 11:21:03 +0000

I found a Blog entry about some of the same stuff:

http://jaykinzer.blogspot.com/2008/02/setting-up-remote-control-lirc.html

This guys use a tool in Ubuntu called mythbuntu-lirc-generator which can generate lircrc configuration for several applications.