Apple IR receiver daemon

Rui Paulo rpaulo at fnop.net
Tue Jul 31 18:29:12 UTC 2007


Thomas Backman wrote:
> 
> On Jul 29, 2007, at 7:56 PM, Rui Paulo wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> At the following location you can find a userland daemon to handle 
>> Apple IR receiver events:
>>
>>     http://fnop.net/~rpaulo/priv/freebsd/aird.tgz
>>
>> If you have a MacBook, an iMac or a MacMini running FreeBSD, try 
>> compiling this little daemon and then try using it. Finally, report to 
>> me any success or failure :-)
 >
> Hi! Just a "works for me", at least partially. I have a Core 2 Duo 
> Macbook Pro (the one released Oct 2006). Worth noting is that I'm 
> running FreeBSD/amd64 through VMWare Fusion.
> In any case, it seems to execute the commands multiple times unless you 
> press and release the buttons *really* fast. Is this a bug, or by 
> design? In any case, it means that you'll have to take care of that 
> yourself before it's actually usable.

I've changed the software so that the behavior of the IR controller is 
less painful. Could you please try again?  The URL is the same.

Thanks in advance.
-- 
Rui Paulo


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