Apple Remote, Candelair, OS X 10.6.2

Can we please have some official word from XBMC devs about what to do about the Apple Remote situation?

You probably know about Plex 0.83 working fine with the help of the drivers written by the RemoteBuddy dev. Here's a news story:

http://elan.plexapp.com/2009/10/23/snow-...dy-author/

And here's the new preference pane called "Candelair":

http://www.iospirit.com/labs/candelair/

So what should we do? Wait for XBMC to be updated in the SVN? Wait for OS X 10.6.2? Install Candelair now?

Thanks.

It's all taken care of as far as I know. When I installed candelair the remote worked fine with the latest builds without starting frontrow etc.

great, glad to know it works. however there is still some confusion. what happens when os x 10.6.2 comes out with a supposed fix? then will there be a conflict? and plex 0.83 builds in the candelair code without needing to install the candelair, as far as I understand it. so i imagine xbmc would too eventually. then again, what about conflicts?

ctawn Wrote:great, glad to know it works. however there is still some confusion. what happens when os x 10.6.2 comes out with a supposed fix? then will there be a conflict? and plex 0.83 builds in the candelair code without needing to install the candelair, as far as I understand it. so i imagine xbmc would too eventually. then again, what about conflicts?

I don't know if 10.6.2 contains a 'fix' (do apple recognize it as a problem?) but if it did create a conflict then just remove candelair before updating I imagine.

http://xbmc.org/davilla/2009/10/23/ir-re...w-leopard/

spiff, thanks for the link. still doesn't answer the question though, if the HID class is part of XBMCHelper in the SVN builds now, does Candelair need to be installed (the pref pane) and if not does having it installed also cause conflicts? And although you can't answer this second question definitively -- assuming apple is going to fix something in 10.6.2, can we expect any problems or conflicts then? thx.

Candelair can co-exist with the 10.6.2 update. When the 10.6.2 update gets pushed public, then you have the option to keep running Candelair.

Candelair is the driver side, XBMCHelper is the client. The HID Class that XBMCHelper uses will work with or without Candelair.

Candelair just restores what 10.6 broke, 10.6.2 update will restore that too.

how come it works in plex without Candelair installed
tried xbmc r24107 and no working remote am I doing something wrong?

I don´t want to install Candelair.

CosyCat Wrote:how come it works in plex without Candelair installed

How come you think Plex works without Candelair installed? They may have included it in their package/installer.
10.6.{0,1} need to have Candelair installed. If it's not installed, you won't get proper remote control behaviour.

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I don´t want to install Candelair.

Sorry, but then you'll have to wait for 10.6.2 and see if the bug is fixed.

cheers,
mdd

ok .. couldn't wait so I installed Candelair and I´m happy again..... it works great

THX