2008-04-14, 22:37
I have to say XBMC is awesome ... a big thanks to everyone that is putting this together!! I never realized what Front Row wasn't until I played with XBMC this weekend. Unfortunately, for me, the need for a keyboard to launch XBMC is a big stumbling block to replacing Front Row (After it's launched, I think the basic 12 buttons on the Apple remote works fine).
I looked around the forum and found a few fixes. There's this link (I'm sure quite a few of you have already seen this) http://funwithcomputers.wordpress.com/20...n-ir-port/. It's a great set of instructions, but I find them a little too involved and I don't need all the buttons mapped.
However, I found a way to simplify the steps in the link above and the steps are quite simple:
#1 - Download the XBMC behavior in the link above.
#2 - Place the behavior in /Users/"Your Computer's Name"/Library/Application Support/Remote Buddy/Behaviours
#3 - Start Remote Buddy, go to preferences, go to mapping, then select "XBMC".
#4 - Map as follows:
- Plus = Up
- Plus (held) = Step Forward
- Minus = Down
- Minus (held) = Skip Previous
- Left = Left
- Left (held) = Skip Previous
- Right = Right
- Right (held) = Skip Next
- Play/Pause = OK
- Play/Pause (held) = Step Back
- Menu = Main Menu
- Menu (held) = Open remote buddy menu
#5 - Quit and relaunch Remote Buddy.
You should now be able to launch XBMC from Remote Buddy and then navigate XBMC with the Apple remote.
I looked around the forum and found a few fixes. There's this link (I'm sure quite a few of you have already seen this) http://funwithcomputers.wordpress.com/20...n-ir-port/. It's a great set of instructions, but I find them a little too involved and I don't need all the buttons mapped.
However, I found a way to simplify the steps in the link above and the steps are quite simple:
#1 - Download the XBMC behavior in the link above.
#2 - Place the behavior in /Users/"Your Computer's Name"/Library/Application Support/Remote Buddy/Behaviours
#3 - Start Remote Buddy, go to preferences, go to mapping, then select "XBMC".
#4 - Map as follows:
- Plus = Up
- Plus (held) = Step Forward
- Minus = Down
- Minus (held) = Skip Previous
- Left = Left
- Left (held) = Skip Previous
- Right = Right
- Right (held) = Skip Next
- Play/Pause = OK
- Play/Pause (held) = Step Back
- Menu = Main Menu
- Menu (held) = Open remote buddy menu
#5 - Quit and relaunch Remote Buddy.
You should now be able to launch XBMC from Remote Buddy and then navigate XBMC with the Apple remote.