Apple Remote with non Apple Hardware?

**Trabant** · May 21st, 2009, 10:53 AM

I've just ordered a Dell Studio Slim to be a boxee box. I'm planning on running Ubuntu and Boxee on it.

Is there anyway to use an Apple Remote with this setup (I already have a few apple remotes.) Can I buy a USB IR receiver for the Dell and use it with Ubuntu (or Windows?)

Thanks for the help. I'm beyond excited to get a dedicated Boxee box up.

**xandrake** · May 28th, 2009, 05:22 PM

Originally Posted by Trabant

I've just ordered a Dell Studio Slim to be a boxee box. I'm planning on running Ubuntu and Boxee on it.

Is there anyway to use an Apple Remote with this setup (I already have a few apple remotes.) Can I buy a USB IR receiver for the Dell and use it with Ubuntu (or Windows?)

Thanks for the help. I'm beyond excited to get a dedicated Boxee box up.

I'm in the same boat. I'll actually be trying to use an older Dell D610 laptop that (i presume) has an IR sensor built in.

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**Trabant** · June 1st, 2009, 08:21 PM

Well, I'll play with it tonight. I just got a windows media center remote with IR receiver for my Vista box. I'll try it out with my apple remote and see how it goes.

**Gelli** · June 8th, 2009, 08:33 PM

Are there any updates to this tread. I have a spare Apple Remote and a Dell Machine running Boxee on Ubuntu (Jaunty Jack), which works great with a keyboard! But I want to use a remote! Can anyone recommend a usb ir receiver that would work with the apple remote thats a relatively easy setup.
Thx

**uncola** · June 21st, 2009, 05:58 PM

as far as I know, the apple remote only works with apple products. if you are running a hackintosh, I believe the remote buddy guy wrote a driver for the mceusb ir receiver that lets it work with the apple remote
edit: see remote buddy page for list of supported receivers http://www.iospirit.com