Remote Buddy Express offers you unparalleled support for the functions of your IR receiver - allowing you to do things with it, that you can't do otherwise. This includes support for multiple remotes, manual pairing, low latency times and instant reactions to long button presses. You could even program more than 1500 buttons on a programmable remote and map them differently in Remote Buddy!
Enable support for multiple remote controls
Traditionally, you can either pair one remote and use only that remote with your computer - or use multiple remotes, but without distinguishing between them. Remote Buddy Express removes both limitations. You can pair multiple remotes, assign different actions to each remote control or even groups of remote controls. You can enable this additional functionality by enabling support for multiple remote controls.
Automatically authorize newly found remotes to control this computer
Remote Buddy Express will automatically detect and add new Apple® Remotes to the list of known remote controls upon a button press. If you want to use them right away without any further setup, enable this checkbox. Otherwise, the remote control is recognized and added to the list, but any input coming from it will be ignored.
Logical remotes, mapping of real remotes to logical remotes
Remote Buddy Express can distinguish between multiple remotes by their transmitted ID and enables you to map each of them to a different set of actions.
Setting this up is a simple two step process. First, you create so called "Logical Remotes", which show up as normal remotes in the rest of Remote Buddy Express's interface. Second, you assign logical remotes to the real remotes.
To register a new remote with your computer, press any button on it and Remote Buddy Express will add it to the table on the right in the pane and select its entry. Enable and disable the checkboxes to authorize and deauthorize a single remote to control your computer.