[MAC] HOW-TO setup Logitech Harmony Remote for use with XBMC for Mac OS X

Not sure if this will help at all but here is the info on my receiver as my MacMini sees it.

My remote is working, but certain commands are not working properly... for instance play/pause/ff/rew don't do what they are suppose to do, as well as Exit, Info, and Back. Is this keymap suppose to have all those functions working? If so, what am I doing wrong?

I have the current svn build, and I followed the instructions on the first page. I assumed all the XBMChelper stuff was not needed, since my build is recent...

I would appreciate any help!

EDIT: Nevermind, figured out! Thank you to all that was involved creating this

I just want to add that this made my day... I can't believe how awesome this is

UnisonRuss Wrote:EDIT: Nevermind, figured out! Thank you to all that was involved creating this

mind posting what helped?

Sure

I still had system settings (remote) set to "Standard" as described in the tutorial. When in standard, the advanced functions of play/stop, exit/back, etc. didn't work. I went back into settings for the hell of it and switched from "Standard" to "Multi (Harmony)" and bam! Everything works like it did with Plex. I can now make XBMC my default media center, which makes me very happy

And now to fins a skin to settle with :lol:

OK now I'm having a problem...

I tried to install a new skin (Rapier), and it kept crashing XBMC. So, I removed that skin, but that confused it even more. I had to rename another skin Rapier to trick XBMC to boot at all. Once XBMC opened up, I changed the skin again, while renaming the other skin back to it's original name (confused yet?)

Now the remote no longer works!

[FIXED] I figured out Plex was conflicting with the harmony...I deleted all traces of it and rebooted my mac, and now it works great again

I moved XBMC to the trash, emptied it, and restarted my mac. I then re-installed XBMC (latest svn build) and open it, and the remote still didn't work. I thin re-downloaded the keymap, and put it in the proper directory. The remote still doesn't work!

Please help me! Does it have something to do with XBMC helper? How do I fix this?

Thank you for any answers

MaestroDD,

Should I create a Trac Ticket for this? I wasn't sure if that would be more proper (or more annoying)

MaestroDD Wrote:Hi Lordfoul,

thanks for the report!



Looks like that IR receiver isn't picked up by XBMCHelper. It crashes because it can't initialize the remote. There'll be a new version of XBMCHelper soon, which might fix that.

cheers,
mdd

lordfoul Wrote:MaestroDD,

Should I create a Trac Ticket for this? I wasn't sure if that would be more proper (or more annoying)

always good so it doesn't get lost. Thanks!

Already tried the new XBMCHelper (svn rev >=23931)?

cheers,
mdd

I am on a PPC, So I can't use the existing compiled SVNs, I have tried compiling before but it never works. Is there a way I can just get the latest XBMCHelper file to test?

Sorry for being helpless.

MaestroDD Wrote:always good so it doesn't get lost. Thanks!

Already tried the new XBMCHelper (svn rev >=23931)?

cheers,
mdd

lordfoul Wrote:I am on a PPC, So I can't use the existing compiled SVNs, I have tried compiling before but it never works. Is there a way I can just get the latest XBMCHelper file to test?

The XBMCHelper binary should be a universal binary, so you can just grab it from one of the nightly builds.

On the other hand, building XBMCHelper should be straight forward, as there are no dependencies. Once you've checked out XBMC, open XBMCHelper's xcodeproject ($(XBMC_SOURCE)/tools/EventClients/Clients/OSXRemote/XBMCHelper.xcodeproj/) and hit build. The binary is then located in $(XBMC_SOURCE)/tools/osx/XBMCHelper.

HTH,
mdd