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I just installed Lion, Hooray! But I am trying to disable the IR receiver in the Preferences, Security pane like the instructions say but there is no option to turn it off like there was in Leopard. Where did it go😕? I paired my remote to my Apple TV correctly, but it still controls my Mac! Anyone figure this out? Was this mistakenly left out of Lion? Thanks
Mac (yes that's my name)
iMac, Mac OS X (10.7)
I found it under
System Preferences > Security and Privacy > General
Last one on the page is Disable Remote Control Infrared Receiver
Also if you open System Preferences and type infrared in the search bar at the top right it will take you straight there
In my System Preferences the Option is missing since I've updated to Lion.
This is a mature problem for me because I've got an other mac which i control via remote and the other mac also reacts to the remote commands. Please Apple give a fast Support!
For whatever reason, it's just not there.
You can try to directly change the enable/disable setting in the plist configuration file for the IR remote. I don't have the missing System Preferences setting issue like you do but I was able to run the following command in the terminal to disable the IR remote:
sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.driver.AppleIRController DeviceEnabled -bool false
To turn it back on I ran this command:
sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.driver.AppleIRController DeviceEnabled -bool true
For me, the above commands had the same effect as unchecking or checking off the box to enable/disable the IR remote in the System Preferences.
Thanks, I tried that but had no luck.
Run Apple > About This Mac > More Info > System Report and see if "IR Receiver" is listed under USB. If no IR receiver is listed, you may need to reset your SMC and/or PRAM to get it back.
What did the job for me was to install Candelair. It enabled the IR option in the Security System Pref again.
http://www.iospirit.com/labs/candelair/
Good Luck!
Ok, so it turns out that I had Candelair installed from a while ago. I opened their preferences at the bottom of system preferences, updated to the newest driver, then restarted my computer. Now I can see the "Disable remote control IR receiver" in the security settings. I thought this was a Lion issue. Anyways, thanks for the help!
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Bingo! I never had Candelair but I went and got it, updated, restarted, and the option returned. Thanks much.
Awesome !!! Glad I found this thread cause this was driving me a little crazy. I had forgotten I had Candelair installed also, but there it was in my System Prefs. After reading the replies here in this thread I updated my Candelair driver... Problem solved !!!
Thanks guys !!!
Just to provide another data point, I had to run Candleair through two sets of updates, but once I did, the IR checkbox returned. Poor kitty... sorry I didn't trust you, Lion.
Just to let everyone know, other programs like RemoteBuddy use Candleair and if they aren't updated you will be missing the option for the IR in Security setings as well. Once updated, RemoteBuddy should function correctly and the option to disable IR should be back in your Security Preferences.
Yes, I had same problem, after update Candleair it solved, ty.
Thank goodness you guys found this, this solved it for me!
Strange, it was in mine. Are you running Lion? Gypsor for the win.
No way to Disable IR receiver in Lion!
