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Anyone using a flirc on OSX 10.6.8?


jamesrward

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Just received my flirc and so far I'm having no luck getting it to work on my old mac mini running 10.6.8.  Just wondering if there is a known good configuration out there.  I downloaded universal install v0.98 per the instructions and the flirc is recognized but no keypresses are captured.  For a simple test I am using the apple remote that came with the Mac Mini and flirc never catches any button presses.

 

To be sure my unit was ok I plugged it into my Macbook Pro running OSX 10.10.1 Yosemite and installed the latest version of the flirc software.  Using the same apple remote from the Mac Mini I was able to program it without any problem.

 

I bought this specifically to use on my Mac Mini but since 10.6.8 is the maximum OSX version it can handle I think I may have wasted my money.  Does anyone have such an old Mac playing nicely with flirc?

 

TIA

 

 

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As long as you do your pairing on one machine, you can use it on any other without any additional software. Make sure the GUI is closed, unplug/plug it back in, there should be no reason why it works after programming on one machine and not the other. Let me know.

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Thanks Jason,

I had a fundamental misunderstanding of how to use the Flirc, I thought it had to be configured on the machine you intended to use it with.  I was able to set it up on my MBP running Yosemite and use it on my Mini running 10.6.8.  I would note for anyone else who stumbles across this post that it would not have been possible for me to set this up using only the Mac Mini running 10.6.8.

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I had a fundamental misunderstanding of how to use the Flirc, I thought it had to be configured on the machine you intended to use it with.

It is really nifty how it does that.

 

 

 

I would note for anyone else who stumbles across this post that it would not have been possible for me to set this up using only the Mac Mini running 10.6.8.

@Jason: What is the minimum version of mac flirc gui runs on? 

(Is it also worth adding this to the download page? http://flirc.tv/downloads/)

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