If the pair option is greyed out, use the Setup Wizard to install the Remote Buddy Kernel Extension, first. For pairing, open the "Setup Wizard" of Remote Buddy (you can access it in the pull down menu to be found in your system's menu bar behind the Remote Buddy icon) and follow its instructions.
Before you can use a Wii™ Remote with Remote Buddy for the first time, you need to pair it through the "Setup Wizard".Please make sure the Bluetooth® Receiver in Remote Buddy is active (green "light" in front of its entry in the menu).During this time, Bluetooth® appears to be active to applications, but isn't fully there just yet. If you only switch on Bluetooth® occassionally: the Bluetooth® stack used by Apple® does seem to need up to a minute after it has been activated, before it can establish connections to devices.You can enable and disable Bluetooth® at any time through System Preferences. Please make sure that your computer is equipped with Bluetooth® and that it is active.Please go through all of the following points to check your setup for possible errors: It can locate issues with a single click and will provide you with information about the issue as well as with instructions on how you can fix it.
In order to make locating and fixing the cause of such issues as easy and efficient as possible, we've developed a free diagnostics tool: Remote Control Diagnostics. It's located elsewhere and can also only be solved there.Īlthough our products can't cause any such issues, we're regularly contacted about such issues and asked for help. Instead, the cause of the issue exists independently of Remote Buddy.
Therefore Remote Buddy is neither the cause of the issue nor is it responsible for it. However, as soon as you quit Remote Buddy, the OS X Apple® Remote subsystem is back in control and any issues caused in it by other applications become visible.
For as long as you're running Remote Buddy, issues like this are covered by Remote Buddy and it's driver and are therefore not visible to you. If other applications don't use the interface to the OS X Apple® Remote subsystem correctly, this can lead to the effect that nothing happens when you press a button on your Apple® Remote. As soon as you quit Remote Buddy, this task is again handled by the OS X Apple® Remote subsystem. In contrast, all other applications with integrated Apple® Remote support usually use the OS X Apple® Remote subsystem.Īs long as you're running Remote Buddy, Remote Buddy and its driver are responsible for turning the received button presses into actions. To enable you to use all capabilities of the IR Receiver of your Mac®, Remote Buddy is using its own driver.