Adding Plugins

[shoesy]

I'd love to add some plugins to my boxee install, but how do I go about adding them?

I can see the directory in fugu, but it wont let me make a directory (permission denied).

Any help much appreciated.

[agentlame]

i don't own an atv, so cant say for sure...

but if it's just ssh, i would try chown. i'm not sure what the default user/group or root pass are, though. sorry. :(

[shoesy]

This is the syntax that I used in the end:

sudo mv NAME_OF_PLUGIN_FOLDER /Applications/Boxee.app/Contents/Resources/Boxee/plugins/video/

Seemed to do the trick and get the files in the right place.

Plugin still doesnt seem to work (XBMC iPlayer) but hey ho. I did think this might have something to do with the files not having the right permissions- as everything seems ok as far as boxee is concerned, it just returns that all too familiar failed to download dialog :(

Any ideas?

[shoesy]

doesnt seem to be there after all - i guess I need to brush up on my command line skills :(

[jazzboy]

The contents of the Boxee.app are owned by root. How do you change the permissions to allow read/write access? I am connecting via Fugu but don't know the root password to make any changes.

Thanks.

[agentlame]

The contents of the Boxee.app are owned by root. How do you change the permissions to allow read/write access? I am connecting via Fugu but don't know the root password to make any changes.

Thanks.

it's my understanding the root password is: frontrow.

[jazzboy]

frontrow as a password doesn't work I'm afraid...

[Lumpsack]

On Apple TV both the username and password when using SSH is frontrow.

Now this is just a copy and paste from another forum, but you may need to do this:

sudo mount -uw /

hit enter, then type:

touch /.readwrite

and hit enter again

[iBog]

what pligins are available?

[agentlame]

what pligins are available?

http://forum.boxee.tv/showthread.php?t=794
http://forum.boxee.tv/showthread.php?t=661

plus what you can find on xbmc.org, that may or may not work.

[agentlame]

oh and:
http://forum.boxee.tv/showthread.php?t=338
this is really cool, too... today i wanted to hear regulate after hearing it on this american life... i haven't heard that song in a decade... bam, there it was, just like that.

[jazzboy]

Ran Lumpsack's command...which produced an error...but then it starts working again...

Thanks for everyone's help....

...now for that iPlayer plug!

[haifischjunge]

I'm thinking about extending boxee a bit for my personal use and I'm wondering if theres anything to take extra care of in comparison to a xbmc python app?

I would like to feed my personal app with a certain path, use the metadata lookup of boxee and play the video files. of course I would like to submit the "whats played" data to boxee.

is there any api support for this or are the social function deep enough in the code that I dont need to bother?

[agentlame]

is there any api support for this or are the social function deep enough in the code that I dont need to bother?

while there is no way for me to be sure, i doubt it is... well, rather, i don't think it's automatic, i think it needs to be invoked.

considering boxee doesn't report things it doesn't recognize, and that it will only offer to recognize certain things, you might not get the results your looking for without some type of api.

[haifischjunge]

Ill try to get my ideas to work with xbmc and their virtual path feature and then have a try with boxee.