Raspberry PI B+ – entering with trepidation – some 1,2,3’s from a friend

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Well, I have made an XBMC plugin and am very familiar with it, but on a raspberry pi? Cool – lets go – but not without talking to a friend who has done this and demoed what he as done. Here is his 1,2,3’s to help get me started – I will share. This is not the newest raspberry pi, because they were all sold out before they were finished being made. This is for the model B+

  1. Get one, I live in Calgary – so here is a local supplier,.an amazon.ca link for Canadians and amazon.com for the rest of you.
  2. This changed since the first post. I need xbmc on my raspberry pi – so follow instructions below. Otherwise Load it with NOOBS load (New out of the box)
  3. Use it … I don’t really have a step 3 but it sounds cool to have 3 steps.
    1. ok – add an xbox controller to the mix. OpenELEC xbox ctrlr discussion

Well the NOOBS install didn’t have a link to raspmbc – so here is a tutorial on OpenELEC version of xbmc .

But this did work

Things to look at / do so I have read and have not gotten to yet.

Re-skinning and customizing

  • reskinning
  • enable samba shares
  • remove ability to get to the “add-ons” menu
    • location of advancedsettings.xml
      • try this first

        cp /usr/share/xbmc/system/advancedsettings.xml /storage/.kodi/userd

        ata/

      • vi /storage/.kodi/userdata/advancesettings.xml
  • edit Home.xml and IncludesHomeMenuItems.xml

    • ls /usr/share/xbmc/addons/skin.confluence/720p/ (this is read-only) ***

    • so this makes more sense in our case since we copied the default skin to a cusotm one of our own
      • remember – above in a link we did this… (well I did)

        • cp -r /usr/share/xbmc/addons/skin.confluence /storage/.kodi/addons/

      • *** that means we need to do this instead of the command above

        • ls /storage/.kodi/addons/skin.confluence.edit/720p/Home.xml

    • video menu is

      <label>31953</label>

      • so to the left of it I added

      •         <!– customer power off menu for knexions –>               

                        <item id=”9090″>                                                                                  

                                <label>POWER OFF</label>                                                                 

                                <onclick>ActivateWindow(ShutdownMenu)</onclick>                                           

                                <icon>-</icon>                          

                                <thumb>-</thumb>                                                                          

                        </item> 

    • kodi-send --action="ReloadSkin()"

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