[mythtv-users] Hulu Integration?

Steven Adeff adeffs.mythtv at gmail.com
Wed Jan 14 23:01:47 UTC 2009


On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 2:39 PM, Brad DerManouelian
<myth at dermanouelian.com> wrote:
> 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

thanks for the logo!

you know you can copy the theme files to your ~/.mythtv file and edit
it there so you don't have to touch the one in /usr/share/blah/blah.

I did that with mainmenu.xml for my setups.


-- 
Steve
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