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Enabling Front Row on your Mac Pro - Bluetooth Mighty Mouse edition
Following up on yesterday's "How to enable Front Row on the Mac Pro" post, Sam Obletz sent us a note alerting us to the fact that the instructions don't work if you're using a Bluetooth Mighty Mouse. Fortunately, Sam included instructions that do work with the Bluetooth Mighty Mouse. The steps trick the Bluetooth controller, receiver, and HID driver into thinking there is IR present.First, read the original tip on on MacOSXHints.
The following steps are what you must do after adding the boolean value for M19-0a, M19-0b, and M19-1:
- Click on the arrow to the left of M6.
- Click on the first property that appears, whatever it is.
- Press New Sibling, in the upper left of the window.
- A new model string will be inserted and rename it to HIDRemoteControl.
- Locate the new HIDRemoteControl line (it's in alphabetical order).
- Change the type from String to Boolean.
- Change the Boolean value to Yes.
- Click on the arrow to the left of M6-events.
- Click on the first property that appears, whatever it is.
- Press New Sibling, in the upper left of the window.
- A new model string will be inserted and rename it to HIDRemoteControl.
- Locate the new HIDRemoteControl line (it's in alphabetical order).
- Change the type from String to Boolean.
- Change the Boolean value to Yes.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Draiz said 1:06PM on 11-14-2006
It works great! Thanks alot to the nice fellow who submitted this! I have been eagerly waiting for this!
I can finally get rid of MediaCenter :)
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Kaiser Sose said 7:47PM on 11-14-2006
Somebody Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeease write a driver for an external usb ir receiver.
I finally got my Mac Pro to power up front row. Its even hooked up with dual screens so both mirror the Front Row!
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Bruno said 7:19PM on 11-15-2006
Disclaimer: the following link is to my own site.
Check out Mira and the Manta TR1 IR transceiver. It works on any Mac with USB and lets you use the Apple Remote for any application.
http://twistedmelon.com
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Mike said 7:40AM on 11-20-2006
This dit not work with Apple bluetooth keyboard. I switched to wired keyboard and it worked like a charm.
Is there any way to get it to work with the bluetooth keyboard?
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