[mythtv-users] Hulu Integration?

Steve Peters - Priority Electronics steve at priorityelectronics.com
Wed Jan 14 23:45:34 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


 
 
 
 
 
Where in the file do you put this? Also, since i'm using the main mythcenter
theme, i only have a ui.xml file. There is no menu-ui.xml file.
-Thanks
-Steve
 

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