By: jules

jules — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 10:50:32 +0000

great tips! after a long night I finally got it working on my mac mini as well – had a few problems with doing it your way though… I think the most recent build of finnix has changed a few things since you wrote your instructions, I couldn’t get the headers, some of your other instructions threw errors at me, and my linux skills are pretty weak in terms of sorting that out. In the end (following some advice from a friend who knows more about linux than me) went with ubuntu server edition. All good… got it working and the MCE remote lets me do some cool stuff courtesy of applescript (eg switch between plex and eyeTV etc at will). I’ve yet to figure out a way of mapping different functions to the buttons depending on which app you’re running but I’m sure I’ll get there in the end… the only thing I would say is that ubuntu is clearly a bit heavier than finnix, there’s something of a delay between hitting a button and plex responding – maybe 0.3-0.5 seconds – not a lot but enough to be a bit annoying. I’ll try some tweaks to speed things up sooner or later… either way it’s a big improvement! Thank you for the ideas!

By: dven

dven — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 09:17:45 +0000

thank you very much!
everything works fine

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