How I got the Gyration Remote 95% working in Sage OSX

[Skaught]

The lack of remotes for OSX is the only thing that has kept my one windows machine in my house. I use the Gyration remote because it is simply the best MCE remote I have ever tried. Problem is, virtually none of the MCE buttons work in OSX/Sage

I finally found a tool that made it work! (mostly)

http://www.orderedbytes.com/controllermate

Controller mate does have a few caveats.

I had to install the gyration addon.

It got all the buttons working except LiveTV, the 4 mode buttons and the big green button. But it got play, pause, skip, chan up/dwn and others are working for the first time on OSX.

I did run into one issue in Snow Leopard. iTunes kept launching when I used the media buttons. Until apple fixes this new issue I had to do the following:

http://discussions.apple.com/thread....readID=2165265

The whole setup works enough that I can now use the remote to control my Sage and make the switch to OSX.

Under windows I get the spinning ring of death about 3 times an hour and have to end the task, OSX is rock solid. OSX also works flawlessly with my HD cable box over firewire.

[Skaught]

I mapped the buttons on the remote to simple letter keypresses. So the Pause button is mapped to the letter P in controllermate.

I then mapped the letter P to Play/pause in Sage.