iPod Dock as Front Row Infrared Receiver

[TheSpaz]

It's too bad you can't use the iPod 5G Dock to use as an infrared receiver for Front Row on non-mobile Macs (Mac Pro). I have an iPod Dock and a remote that could easily communicate with the Mac but, I don't think there's the software to do it. Apple would have to make some sort of update to do it.

Just a thought.

 

[Richard Flynn]

It's been suggested before. It wouldn’t be possible through a software update, because the dock doesn't pass a signal from the IR receiver back along the USB cable to the computer, but instead from the IR receiver into the iPod dock connector. That’s the way it’s wired.

 

[mike dunx]

I've heard about it working if you just use a different reciever with the remote, but it's too bad you can't use the dock as a reciever. That'd be really convenient