Comments on: Snow Leopard thaws to the Apple Remote, thanks to Remote Buddy Author

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 20:48:26 +0000

I’ve heard there are some wildlife groups trying to get Apple to do more stuff with the actual S.L.’s lol. I don’t know- people are saying it’s good PR for Apple- they should jump on that.

By: Gorim

Gorim — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 21:02:42 +0000

You brought me back to life.

Ton of tanks, my friends.

By: Felix Schwarz

Felix Schwarz — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:43:17 +0000

@ Navid:

There was a rare, Leopard-only issue (with about 0.07% of users affected) in v1.0 of Candelair. This issue has now been identified, addressed and fixed.

I have posted a more lengthy analysis and explanation of what caused the issue over in the Plex 0.8.3 thread comments (at the time of writing, it still seems to be in the approval queue).

To remove the old version from your system:

1) Boot into single user mode by following the instructions at http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1492

2) when you arrive at the “:/ root#” prompt, type in
rm -Ri /System/Library/Extensions/RBIOKitHelper.kext
and confirm the deletion of the files located at and within /System/Library/Extensions/RBIOKitHelper.kext.

3) when done, type in
reboot

4) Your Mac will now reboot. Let is start up normally without pressing any keys during startup.

5) When reinstalling the Candelair driver, please be sure you’re at 1.0.2 (driver version 1.7.2) or later. You can find both version numbers by pressing on the “About” button in the Candelair preference pane.

Best regards,
Felix Schwarz

By: Navid

Navid — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:55:07 +0000

Sofa Control + 10.5 + candelair gives me kernel panic at boot !!!

By: Claude

Claude — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 09:01:10 +0000

Finally i have a working media center again!!! Thanks guys for this great work!!!

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 03:06:04 +0000

Apple Remote… Stupid IR. Why can’t they make it Bluetooth, for Christ’s sake? My $3500 Mac Pro doesn’t have IR, only Bluetooth.

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:14:42 +0000

With this, I installed Snow Leopard on my Mac Minis. Works as advertised.

By: Mart

Mart — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 20:59:28 +0000

Sofa Control + SL works fine too. Remote buddy seems alot cooler though.

By: RobM

RobM — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 20:25:22 +0000

“what is the status with the new metal apple remote with the two extra buttons ”

Which two extra buttons are those, “name required”? All I can see on the new remote are the buttons the old one always had but located in slightly different locations.

Either way, old or new remote I’m delighted to see another fix for SL & Plex appear!

By: Rozzy

Rozzy — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 06:43:21 +0000

Oh man, thank you so much for this. It has definitely been the biggest problem to come up in snow leopard for me so far