Comments on: Apple Remote Not Working in OS X Leopard?

By: RB

RB — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 23:15:03 +0000

This just happened to me, and thankfully I found this posting. I like Boxee but taking over the remote once you’ve exited the program is a big frustrating bug. Boxee fail for sure!

By: Scott Mahan

Scott Mahan — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 21:55:35 +0000

And here I thought it was VMWare, but it was indeed Boxee. Thanks for the help

By: Shanej

Shanej — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 02:24:38 +0000

Thanks Scott, Boxee has done some tricky things! Works great now.

By: kyle

kyle — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 23:41:14 +0000

thank you, boxee fail!

By: addicted

addicted — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 06:00:53 +0000

Thanks a lot for the great advice…

It was Boxee. Boxee seems to have broken (Apple Remote not working in there) and it takes over control even when turned off.. (if the Always On option is selected).

By: AB

AB — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 02:28:29 +0000

boxee…grrr

By: PaulB

PaulB — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 14:26:57 +0000

Another Boxee problem here as well, thanks guys for the advice, my remote is now working fine after disabling the remote in boxee.

By: samuel_j

samuel_j — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 21:14:41 +0000

scott thanks

boxie was indeed the issue for me.
btw does the remote work for you in boxee?
it doesn’t for me.

By: Scott Adams

Scott Adams — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 19:29:59 +0000

Ok, I had the same problem. I found out the issue, not sure if you have the same issue. I installed an update to Boxee yesterday and it took my apple remote over so it only worked in Boxee.

If you have Boxee this is what I did:
Went into Settings – Hardware – Remote
unchecked Always On

Hope this helps.

By: Luca Macis

Luca Macis — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 10:43:20 +0000

I had this a few days ago. If the option to pair your remote is not in the security pane of system preferences then restart your mac in safe mode. Worked for me anyways.

http://www.lucamacis.com/post/182730947/help-apple-remote-stopped-working

I wrote a blog post about it with more instructions as ive found lots of people having similar problems with no real solutions.

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:29:29 +0000

Hi guys, My remote has stopped working to. The only confusing thing is that in the system preferences under ‘general’ i haven’t a disable infrared receiver option, i’m currently on leopard Mac OS X 10.5.8 (9L31a) since it’s release over a year ago so it’s only happened since a recent(last couple of months) update.

Hopefully someone can help.

Cheers

By: Rich

Rich — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 22:05:52 +0000

And obviously turning it back on!!!

By: Rich

Rich — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 22:04:18 +0000

Same problem with the remote not working all of a sudden. Realized i hadn’t used it since the last update. (OS X Update combined 10.5.7) Pairing it worked though so ruled out the battery. Still had no control of anything. Disabling the IR receiver in system preferences cured it 100%…

By: Maddison

Maddison — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 12:05:21 +0000

My remote seems broken…but my imac is still reciveing its signal…

When i hit volume up on it once the volume goes all the way to the top (max volume) and keeps trying to go higher and vice verser…even though im not touching the remote anymore!

help!

By: Anty

Anty — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 02:14:19 +0000

SAME THING WITH MEEEEEE!

so i noticed, usually if the remote i working the preference pane will be there, but sometimes thats not true and it doesn’t work even when its there, but it never works without the preference pane there. I wish there was a force IR enable thingy or somehting…. very frustrating. I recently purchased an apple remote for my mbp, and can’t really use it, come on apple!

By: PhilDB

PhilDB — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 11:37:26 +0000

I had the same problem. I restarted in safe mode and then restarted in normal mode. Don’t know why this worked but it did.

By: Pong

Pong — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 21:39:56 +0000

Dan, Can you explain how to get VMWare to relinquish control back to the Mac? I think I’m having the same problem. Thanks!

By: Dan

Dan — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 11:33:20 +0000

TIM you are the man!

been trying to work out why my remote has stopped working for ages!! Also when VMware takes control of the RC the menu in system prefs also disappears.

Thanks again!

By: daniel

daniel — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 03:44:51 +0000

tried pairing…still won’t work… I’ve had the mac for some months, but I just took the remote out of the plastic. Still won’t pair

By: jiminylove

jiminylove — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 21:09:36 +0000

got it fixed. went to system preferences>security and switched IR reciever off, then back on and paired my remote. is working great in itunes and front row now!

By: TiM

TiM — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 02:46:05 +0000

SORTED!!!

Be careful if you have VMware Fusion installed on you Mac.

If you give your guest OS access to the Apple IR Receiver this will stop the remote from working in OS X.

By: TiM

TiM — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 02:06:38 +0000

Same problem here. Was listening to music, then lost connection to the remote (paired).

Remote works fine with my iDock so it is iMac/Leopard related

By: Mr. Mayor

Mr. Mayor — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 20:32:01 +0000

Matt, I’ve yet to pick up one of the new keyboards… That is very interesting that those keys don’t seem to work for you though! When I pick one up I’ll see if I run into the same issue.

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 20:08:27 +0000

I have the same problem!

Started the iMac and the remote stopped working to control iTunes, VLC, Quicktime and so on.

It does however work (after pairing again) front row now.

I have also noticed that the 3 keys on the (new aluminimum) iMac keyboard that control the same features (i.e. forwards, backwards, play and pause) [F7 through F9] have also stopped working.

By: Mark Stephan

Mark Stephan — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 17:45:07 +0000

Yo dude, mine isn’t working either. Does anyone have a solution to this?