Comments on: Using your Apple Remote In Bootcamp

By: Zelduy

Zelduy — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 16:22:13 +0000

I can’t opened the website = http://coderhump.com/archives/214
anyone can post the trick to use all 6 buttons of apple remote in Eventghost??

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 02:20:19 +0000

Hey, it took me a while to re-discover it, but I found this as a solution to enable the use of all 6 buttons (menu and +/- included):

http://coderhump.com/archives/214

Another note on a rather specific glitch, anyone having trouble with coherence not working properly in Parallels (4) after installing the bootcamp drivers: the problem seems to disappear after removing the Apple files in the windows System32 folder (I got rid of AppleControlPanel, AppleOSSMgr and AppleTimeSrv)

Hope some of that’s helpful

By: Rudi

Rudi — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 18:57:09 +0000

Great application – thanks a lot Simeon.
But Joe is right. The up, down, and menu button is not
available.
Does anybody have a solution for this?
Rudi

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:57:41 +0000

Cheers, been meaning to get this sorted for ages and have finally got around to it. Works like a charm inside my XP Virtual Machine in Parallels 4.0 (if you make sure the IR Receiver is attached to the Windows side – Select under Devices -> USB). I installed the Boot Camp drivers as well for this, but I don’t know if that’s an absolute must (just not keen to mess about now it’s working).

Thanks once again,

Tim

By: Alex

Alex — Sun, 17 May 2009 22:23:41 +0000

AWESOME THANKS!!! Works perfect!!!

No clue why apple did not include this from the start….

By: Simeon

Simeon — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 16:21:17 +0000

Hey Rod,

Thanks for posting back with the magic combination. I am sure that will be useful for other folks trying to make this work.

sim

By: Rod

Rod — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 08:50:07 +0000

Thanks Simeon, but I finally figured out how to get it working with Power Point 2008 on my MacBook Pro. The critical step was setting the HID settings in EventGhost to “use raw data as event name.” Once this was done, when I pressed the remote I could see the signals generate events in EventGhost in the left pane. (For example HID .2587EE4509) which is a left click of the remote. A right click generates an ID of
HID .2687EE4506. After this I only needed to “add macros” in the right pane and set them to “keystokes” (left arrow/right arrow) and then drag the HID events from the left pane to the macros that I wanted them to bind to in the right pane. I saved my configuration and minimized EventGhost & launched Power Point 2008 and wholla it worked like a charm. If any of your posters need a screen-cap of my configuration just let me know. Take care.

Rod

By: Simeon

Simeon — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 16:34:00 +0000

Hi Rod,

Unfortunately I am not running this anywhere anymore so i can’t test to show you where you might have gone wrong. Sorry.

Good Luck

By: Rod

Rod — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 09:23:00 +0000

Hey Semon,

I installed ARW.exe Apple Remote for Windows so that drivers are emulated in Windows XP for my Apple Remote. I also installed EventGost but I still cannot seem to configure it right. I followed you instructions in this post but it’s still not working. My configuration tree in EventGhost 0.3.5c 908 is as follows:

Autostart
Start Program: POWERPNT.EXE
Plugin: HID (IR Receiver, Apple Computer Inc Connected Yes)
Trigger Event: set to “o”
Left mouse button

However when Power Point launches and I go to “show” mode my Apple Remote still won’t “left click” to change slides.

What am I doing wrong?

By: doug

doug — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 01:33:29 +0000

Awesome. I made the center button start the slide show in PowerPoint by linking it to F5.