[mythtv-users] Hulu Integration?

Brad DerManouelian myth at dermanouelian.com
Wed Jan 14 19:39:41 UTC 2009


On Jan 6, 2009, at 7:47 AM, Nick F wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 2:59 PM, Brad DerManouelian <myth at dermanouelian.com 
> > wrote:
> > I leave the frontend running and I added an item to the main menu to
> > launch boxee. Select it and use boxee normally with my remote and  
> exit
> > when I'm done - then I'm back in the frontend. Even my 11 year old  
> can
> > do it. :)
> By the way, I figured out how to do that by going here:
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Menu_theme_development_guide
>
> So I added this to mainmenu.xml:
>    <button>
>       <type>TV_WATCH_RECORDINGS</type>
>       <text>Launch Boxee</text>
>       <action>EXEC /opt/boxee/run-boxee-desktop</action>
>    </button>
>
> Wow - thanks.  That was easy!
>
> And - without me doing anything special to set it up - boxee  
> understood my Microsoft MCE remote and happily worked with it, and  
> exit took me straight back to Myth.  Boxee is really slick - love  
> that user interface, and now being embedded into myth and working  
> with the remote - it's almost like it's part of the same package!

I had some free time today so I expanded this a bit.

I added:
            <state name="BOXEE" from="DEFAULT">
                <imagetype name="watermark">
                    <filename>watermark/boxee.png</filename>
                </imagetype>
            </state>
to /usr/share/mythtv/themes/MythCenter-wide/menu-ui.xml

and then added this image:
http://amade.us/images/boxee.png

to /usr/share/mythtv/themes/MythCenter-wide/watermark as boxee.png

Then I changed my button definition in mainmenu.xml to:
<button>
   <type>BOXEE</type>
   <text>Boxee</text>
   <action>EXEC /opt/boxee/run-boxee-desktop</action>
</button>

Now it looks a little more integrated into MythTV with a pretty image  
of its very own.
(Obviously, add to whatever theme you're using and adjust image size  
as needed)

-Brad



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