Apple Tv Remote App

I have a Mac mini (mid 2011) with Mountain Lion. I'm unable to pair it with my Apple remote. I've tried holding down forward+menu and also play/pause+menu.It doesn't work. I am logged in as administrator and I've checked that the mini isn't paired with another remote. The remote works, I've tried it with my MacBook Pro. Any ideas?

It seems there is a set of keyboard combinations that can be used to force a reset the ID of the remote, the suggestion is MAYBE that by getting it to work on the iMac and laptop in some way reset the ID.

Apple Tv Remote App

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Actually, now I can't seem to get my remote to do anything with my mini (after turning the IR receiver back on), whereas before it would annoy me by picking up on every button press directed to my Apple TV even if I was on the treadmill on the other side of the room. I've tried rebooting and no cigar.

I don't know why, but it seems if you check the "disable IR sensor" box, then uncheck it, the Mac will not make the change back unless you restart. Once I restarted, i noticed the remote started to control Plex, eventhough the remote was not paired with the Mac. I uninstalled Plex Media Player with Appcleaner, restarted my Mac, went to System Preferances- Security- Advanced- Pair, I have the old white remote, and held down Menu and Next buttons and BAM! I saw the connecting link. The remote was paired. There must be something with Plex preventing the remote to pair with the mac mini. I know there is a Plexhelper file that runs in the background, but I tried shutting that down through Activity Monitor, but didn't help. I hope this helps.

I bought my second new apple tv yesterday and the remote isn't working as well for this second apple tv as it has for the first. Both tv sets are samsung. The room that is giving me issues is the newer tv set. The apple tv remote controls the volume with no issue but it won't power the tv on or off. When I attempt to power off, the tv set goes into a some sort of a sleep mode (that's the best way I can describe it). Typically the a red light at the bottom right of the tv (the ir scanner) turns red when it is powered off. This does not happen when I use the apple remote. The red indicator light will flash once and that's it. The "No Signal" message does not appear and the only control that I have in this state from the samsung remote is the power button (source, menu, volume, etc. are unresponsive). It seems like some sort of hard sleep mode. Eventually the tv will turn completely off after a couple of hours and then I cannot get the apple remote to power the tv on. I used to work for the local cable company and ran calls on issues like this all day but this looks to be a really issue (rather than someone having their tv set to channel 3 instead of the appropriate HDMI input). I'm guessing that my tv is not fully compatible but I'm hoping someone on here may have a solution that I haven't thought of. I've tried both HDMI ports on the tv (neither are Anynet+ and I think that's the issue), checked all tv settings and apple tv settings, and I've power cycled both a couple times. I'm going to try an older Sony that my son uses but I'd really prefer to keep the newer tv in my room. Thanks for any help anyone can provide.

The Apple Remote is a remote control introduced in October 2005 by Apple Inc. for use with a number of its products with infrared capability. It was originally designed to control the Front Row media center program on the iMac G5 and is compatible with many subsequent Macintosh computers. The first three generations of Apple TV used the Apple Remote as their primary control mechanism. It has now been replaced with the Siri Remote in the fourth generation. Prior to the Apple Remote, Apple produced several nameless IR remotes for products such as the Macintosh TV, TV tuner expansion boards, and the PowerCD drive.[1][2][3]

In October 2009, the remote was redesigned as a thinner and longer aluminum version. The new remote was released along with the 27- inch aluminum iMacs and multi-touch Magic Mouse. The Play/Pause button was moved out of the center of the directional buttons and put beside the Menu button (under the directional buttons). The symbols for the Volume Up/Down and Next/Fast-forward buttons were replaced with small dots, to make it clear that the buttons were also used to move up, down, left, and right within menus. Along with the new design, the price was dropped to US$19.99. In earlier aluminum remotes, the navigation ring was flush with the curvature of the remote's aluminum body. In the later revision, the ring is slightly raised to make it easier to locate the ring by touch.

Replacement of the CR2032 battery in the original remote is done with a small pointed object such as a paper clip at the bottom right edge of the device, where the battery slides out on a tray. The newer version has the battery located behind a compartment in the middle of the device which is accessed by turning a coin in the compartment door's indent.[5]

The Apple Remote's original function was to enable navigation in Front Row, which allows users to browse and play music, view videos (DVDs and downloaded files) and browse photos. Although Front Row was removed from OS X 10.7 and later, some Apple software still works with the remote. It can still be used to control presentations in Apple Keynote, slide shows in iPhoto and Aperture, DVD films via DVD Player, and to play video, and audio in iTunes and QuickTime. Other software that is still compatible includes Elgato's EyeTV 3.5, and VLC media player. The remote can also be used to run presentations in Microsoft PowerPoint 2008 or in OpenOffice.org Impress.

Other functions controlled by the remote can include putting a device into sleep mode, selecting a partition to boot from on startup, and ejecting optical discs.[6] A device can be configured to respond only to a particular remote.[7]

An iPod placed in a dock featuring an IR sensor can be used with the remote for music and media control.[8] The iPod's menus cannot be operated with the remote. The Apple Remote can also be used to control the iPod Hi-Fi or third-party devices tailored to it.[9]

Starting with Boot Camp 1.2, the remote has some functionality when a user is running Windows. If iTunes is installed on the Windows partition, pressing the Menu button on the remote will start the program. The remote's media controls also support Windows Media Player, as well as system volume control.[10] Other third-party programs may also utilize the remote's capabilities; media applications such as foobar2000 and Media Player Classic allow users to control their functions via the remote. Applications must be in focus for the remote to control them. Boot Camp 5, released on March 14, 2013, also includes drivers for the remote control.[11]

The Siri Remote was launched with the 4th Generation Apple TV in 2015. It uses both IR and Bluetooth to communicate with the Apple TV. The remote has a trackpad, dual microphones, 5 buttons for Menu, Home, Siri and Play/Pause, and a Volume up/down rocker button.[12] Additionally it has an accelerometer (IMU) and a gyroscope[13] which allows the remote to be used as a gaming controller for tvOS apps and games. The remote (unlike previous generations) uses a built-in rechargeable Lithium Polymer Battery that is charged through a lightning port at the bottom of the remote.[14] In regions where Siri is not supported, the Siri Remote is known as the Apple TV Remote.[15]

Because many electrical appliances use infrared remote (IR) controls, concurrent use of the Apple Remote with other IR remotes may scramble communications and generate interference, preventing stable use. Remotes should be used individually to circumvent the problem.[20]

I'm assuming you're talking about the old white style magnetic remotes? Unfortunately I don't believe those will work with a brand new iMac. Those remotes used infrared, which has been taken out of the newer models of apple computers. Guess not enough people wanted to browsed their photos and movies via Front Row back in the day.

Yes, I am seeing those issues as well, including an odd one with the IP address listed in the admin list as being incorrect. At least I can control the clients. With the client showing an incorrect IP address, I can manually add a new client entry using the correct IP address, and bring up two remote windows controlling the same client. Clearly, not enough quality control was done before Apple released Remote Desktop 3.9.

Additionally if you want to connect to a remote machine Screen Sharing is available on all OS X client machines. As long as the machine you want to connect to has Screen Sharing or Remote Management turned on in the Sharing System Pref pane, you can share the screen and control the desktop. You can access this through the Finder on the sidebar under the Shared browser. This will show you all the machines on your local network that have sharing on, or any machines you have configured with Back to My Mac. There is a nice free utility called ScreenSharingMenulet that sits in your menu bar and gives quick access to machines with screen sharing on.

I think you are also looking for the actual application that used to be located in Application/Utilities folder, called Screen Sharing. It is now hidden away at /System/Library/CoreServices/Screen Sharing. This is the actual app that is called by the finder wihen using either the sidebar or Connect to... to remotely screen share.

After the installation, simply create the configuration file to start using the remote control. The configuration file is located in /etc/lirc/lirc/lircrc and contains the mapping of commands to be executed for each action of the control. My file can be downloaded here. Below are shown two blocks of this configuration file. e24fc04721