Just popping in to say Hello

[cw-kid]

Hello

Just popping in to say hello, someone PM'd me so I was back on the site. Hows things going on The Green Button ?

I'm over on the XBMC forums if you thought I had died or something lol.

Cheers

Stuart

[richard1980]

F-ing traitor, lol.

[STC]

And how is that treating you may I ask?

[milli260876]

Wot Richard said

[milli260876]

What's the tv capabilities like on xbmc btw??

[cw-kid]

I haven't got that far in to XBMC and Live TV yet. My plans are to buy a new Blackgold BGT3620 TV Tuner for the WHS server and install DVBLink again. DVBLogic have a Live TV XBMC add-on which I plan on using. XBMC is not as good as MCE in the Live TV department, least not yet.

Ian Dixon did a video about it here

http://thedigitallifestyle.com/w/index. ... -extender/

[milli260876]

looks good I might just go buy an Rpi....

[cw-kid]

And how is that treating you may I ask?

Been a big learning curve, as I hadn't used Linux before. I have based my XBMC on Linux Ubuntu Minimal which is just terminal / command line no desktop GUI at all.

Some of the guys on the XBMC forum are quite friendly others not so much, but generally help can be found on there by new users. Though they probably think I am an idiot asking stupid newbie Linux questions.

Have a look on my blog I've done a few posts about my exploits in to the XBMC world, you can see some screen shots etc.

I am still working out if to ditch MyMovies.dk or not and I am still working out some of the artwork things, as the skins are allot more graphical you need allot more extra artwork for it to look right.

Cheers

[milli260876]

Any particular reason you didn't go xbmcbuntu native??
i had a look at that just before w8 but £25 windows licenses sealed the deal....

[cw-kid]

Any particular reason you didn't go xbmcbuntu native??
i had a look at that just before w8 but £25 windows licenses sealed the deal....

I wanted to do it the difficult way and really try and learn how the system works inside out, rather than cheat with a Live version like XBMCBuntu or OpenElec.

How you getting on with Windows 8? I didn't like it, not got one Windows 8 machine here. Although I just setup a new Windows 8 touch screen laptop for my brother last week!

[staknhalo]

CW - have you seen the WMC backend plugin for XBMC TV/EPG/Rec TV?

[milli260876]

I like w8, but I'd already fallen for "metro" with windows phone... Don't get me wrong it can be a bit clunky at times but some of the"apps" are starting to look good. it's not very remote friendly outside of mediacenter, but I've got a logitech touchpad that works wonderfully with it. Still clinging to the hope of kinect 2 integration tbh!!!
found w8 really useful for my little girl too with a fair few kid friendly apps...

[cw-kid]

CW - have you seen the WMC backend plugin for XBMC TV/EPG/Rec TV?

No I haven't whats that ?

[cw-kid]

I like w8, but I'd already fallen for "metro" with windows phone... Don't get me wrong it can be a bit clunky at times but some of the"apps" are starting to look good. it's not very remote friendly outside of mediacenter, but I've got a logitech touchpad that works wonderfully with it. Still clinging to the hope of kinect 2 integration tbh!!!
found w8 really useful for my little girl too with a fair few kid friendly apps...

Did MS ever fix the Modern UI apps for Pictures, Videos and Music so you can add in your own content from the LAN on the server or NAS ?

[staknhalo]

CW - have you seen the WMC backend plugin for XBMC TV/EPG/Rec TV?

No I haven't whats that ?

http://www.thegreenbutton.tv/forums/vie ... hilit=xbmc

[cw-kid]

CW - have you seen the WMC backend plugin for XBMC TV/EPG/Rec TV?

No I haven't whats that ?

http://www.thegreenbutton.tv/forums/vie ... hilit=xbmc

Looks interesting, I assume its still being developed and not a finished solution?

Are you using this yourself?

Cheers

[staknhalo]

Looks interesting, I assume its still being developed and not a finished solution?

Are you using this yourself?

Yeah it's mostly functional but not yet finished. I helped him with some small UI things - I have the beta for this; but have yet to install XBMC and configure it.

[cw-kid]

Looks interesting, I assume its still being developed and not a finished solution?

Are you using this yourself?

Yeah it's mostly functional but not yet finished. I helped him with some small UI things - I have the beta for this; but have yet to install XBMC and configure it.

Sounds very interesting indeed, please let me know how it works out for you in the longer term? I might have to do a write up about it on the Digital Lifestyle.com site.

As I have already formatted all my MCE PCs LOL. I think I will try the TV tuner card in the WHS 2011 with DVBLink back-end and their DVBLogic XBMC add-on first.

Need a new tuner card though to try it. Anyone got a BlackGold BGT3620 for sale ? Or something that will do DVB-T2.

[dduk]

Need a new tuner card though to try it. Anyone got a BlackGold BGT3620 for sale ? Or something that will do DVB-T2.

If you can't find the Blackgold tuner you're after, give the TBS T2 cards a look. I have a dual and a quad in my WHS with DVBLink. Both the cards work brilliantly, unfortunately DVBLink doesn't play at all well with Server 2012 (Essentials).

[cw-kid]

Need a new tuner card though to try it. Anyone got a BlackGold BGT3620 for sale ? Or something that will do DVB-T2.

If you can't find the Blackgold tuner you're after, give the TBS T2 cards a look. I have a dual and a quad in my WHS with DVBLink. Both the cards work brilliantly, unfortunately DVBLink doesn't play at all well with Server 2012 (Essentials).

I bought a Blackgold tuner. But as expected live TV in XBMC isn't as good as with MCE.

XBMC Live TV / PVR – DVBLogic’s DVBLink - Part1
XBMC Live TV / PVR – DVBLogic’s DVBLink – Part2
XBMC Live TV / PVR – DVBLogic’s DVBLink – Part3