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

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

• OpenELEC load has xbmc for the raspberry pi. Download it (scroll down to Raspberry PI builds section) and follow these instructions
  • I have a mac – so follow this link to install it on the microSD or SD card (I have a b+ raspberry pi w. 512 MB). Not mac? Click here
  • Here is an AWESOME link to narrow down the menus for your kiosk operators or in my case, volunteers
• Removing even MORE things to make it more kiosk – easy peasy.

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

• 10 must-do tweaks
• ir remotes
  • Harmony Remote (seen it over and over and over)

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()"

Cloning your card once you have it ‘just the way you like it”

• http://computers.tutsplus.com/articles/how-to-clone-raspberry-pi-sd-cards-using-the-command-line-in-os-x–mac-59911