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I recently purchased the excellent ATI Remote Wonder II. It’s a pretty nice RF remote with a glut of programmable buttons (solving the main problem I have with my Keyspan remote). There’s a great review over at Remote Central which sums up the remote nicely. As this review mentions, the Mac drivers for this item are surprisingly well written.

mostly…

Unfortunately I found that the drivers I downloaded from ATI’s website (they’re buried deep) had an issue with remote button presses sending two key presses. Push up on the remote and the software would press up twice in whatever program you are using. This did not happen on every press, but it was more than enough to make surfing channels pretty much unbearable in EyeTV. I was about to return the remote to ATI when I decided to try an older version of the drivers. Sure enough, downgrading to version 1.5 of the ATI Drivers cleared up the double press issue. Other than a somewhat less elegant configuration app, I cannot really see any difference between the 1.5 and 2.0.1 versions of the driver, but having only used the v2 drivers for a week, so I might be missing out on some fantastic feature, but quite frankly it works and I don’t care.

So if you have this remote (and I highly recommend it) and are experiencing double key presses, try the downgrade and let me know if it works.

UPDATE Since the 1.5 Drivers are no longer available at ati.com, I have put them up here. I also updated the links in this post since ATI nee AMD did not feel like providing redirects redirects.

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