Run Boxee on XBMC Live CD

[kshwet]

Want to get best of both the Worlds ?

Yes, its quite easy to install and run Boxee Beta on the top of your desktop running XBMC Live CD.

You need the following:

1. XBMC Live CD ( or XBMC Live installed on your harddisk / pendrive)
2. Internet Connection (to download some packages including Boxee application, you anyways will need this to login into Boxee)

Make sure you have persistence enabled installation of XBMC Live on your pendrive or have XBMC installed on your harddrive, otherwise you will loose all your changes after the system reboot. But you are good if you don’t bother to have Boxee permanently installed and just want to try it out.

Follow these Steps to install Boxee:

1. Boot into XBMC Live CD
2. Install gdebi package (this is needed to automatically resolve all the package dependencies and download from the internet).
sudo apt-get install gdebi
3. Install a light weight browser that we will use to download Boxee application from Boxee website (you can ignore step 3 and 4 if you already have Boxee application downloaded from Boxee.tv website).
sudo apt-get install seamonkey
4. Once seamonkey is installed, you can open up Boxee.tv and download the Boxee application specific to your system architecture (32/64)
5. Install Boxee Application (substitute x.y.z below with the appropriate Boxee version number/ complete file name of the deb Boxee package).
sudo gdebi boxee.x.y.z
6. Boxee gets installed to /opt/boxee/ location by default.
7. Change directory to /opt/boxee/ and execute
./run-boxee-desktop

That’s it. Enjoy Boxee in its’ new form. Its really cool.

Note: If you are running XBMC from a Live CD, you will loose all your changes that you made above (all packages/ installations will be gone the moment you reboot your system. You will have to either install the XBMC either on your harddisk or pendrive (with persistence enabled). But yes, just to get a taste of Boxee on Linux, executing the above steps will be fine

[rahimlila]

Hi have boxee running nicely on XBMC Live. Very easy to install and also Live image has a quick boot time, which is nice. I even have programmed a remote control button to switch between xbmc and boxee, so I can have my cake and eat it too.....hehehe


Only one issue I cannot figure out. If I suspend the system with remote, then wakeup system, the audio in boxee stops working. I can restore audio by restarting boxee....kinda annoying


I have Ubuntu based live CD version 9.11. Zotac Ion board with audio over HDMI.

If can get a fix for this it be great!

[gixxer]

Thanks for the instructions.

I have Boxee running on XBMC Live environment.

Boxee runs.

Have sound and menus, navigation all works.

But, "NO" Hulu.

I have no Hulu video. The video is blank.

Is there problem with Flash 10 installation?

Thanks!

[kshwet]

Though I don't see a direct application for Hulu/Netflix in Boxee Beta on Linux but I could see a couple of videos being streamed from HULU. And to my surprise the video was running perfectly on my TV. If you want I can post a video demonstrating the same.

Don't know what is really going on, since I heard ppl in this forum itself saying that Hulu streaming is our of scope for the current Boxee application for Linux (Ubuntu), Flash 10 not yet released for Linux, etc, etc.

Try a couple of other HULU videos and see if any of them works (just to figure out if its the issue with the Video or HULU or your system).

[maxim9]

HI even have programmed a remote control button to switch between xbmc and boxee, so I can have my cake and eat it too.....hehehe

Could you explain how you were able to do this? Was there a script that you edited? Was it done through irxevent?

[rahimlila]

Activate LIveTV button to toggle betwen boxee and xbmc

0. Install XBMC Live and boxee deb file. Follow intructions in other posts

To be able to switch between xbmc and boxee at will using the "LiveTV" button on your MCE remote follow the instructions below.

steps 1-4 involve manually modifying lirc and keymap files for both xbmc and boxee. steps 5-7 involve setting up toggleing . remainer steps involve getting suspend and wakeup on remote to work.


1. paste

<lircmap>
<remote device="mceusb">
<play>Play</play>
<pause>Pause</pause>
<stop>Stop</stop>
<forward>Forward</forward>
<reverse>Rewind</reverse>
<left>Left</left>
<right>Right</right>
<up>Up</up>
<down>Down</down>
<select>OK</select>
<pageplus>ChanUp</pageplus>
<pageminus>ChanDown</pageminus>
<back>Back</back>
<menu>PreviousMenu</menu>
<title>Guide</title>
<info>More</info>
<skipplus>Skip</skipplus>
<skipminus>Replay</skipminus>
<display>Teletext</display>
<start>Home</start>
<record>Record</record>
<volumeplus>VolUp</volumeplus>
<volumeminus>VolDown</volumeminus>
<mute>Mute</mute>
<power>Power</power>
<myvideo>Videos</myvideo>
<mymusic>Music</mymusic>
<mypictures>Pictures</mypictures>
<mytv>TV</mytv>
<one>One</one>
<two>Two</two>
<three>Three</three>
<four>Four</four>
<five>Five</five>
<six>Six</six>
<seven>Seven</seven>
<eight>Eight</eight>
<nine>Nine</nine>
<zero>Zero</zero>
<star>Star</star>
<hash>Hash</hash>
<clear>Clear</clear>
<enter>Enter</enter>
<red>Red</red>
<green>Green</green>
<yellow>Yellow</yellow>
<blue>Blue</blue>
<livetv>LiveTV</livetv>
</remote>
</lircmap>

to ~/.xbmc/userdata/Lircmap.xml
2. paste
Code:

<keymap>
<global>
<remote>
<livetv>XBMC.Quit()</livetv>
<power>XBMC.Suspend()</power>
</remote>
</global>
</keymap>


to ~/.xbmc/userdata/keymaps/KeyMap.xml
3. inject in appropriate spot
<livetv>LiveTV</livetv>

into /opt/boxee/system/Lircmap.xml
4. inject in appropriate spot

<livetv>XBMC.Quit()</livetv>
<power>XBMC.Suspend()</power>

into /opt/boxee/system/keymaps\remote.xml


5.
paste

#!/bin/bash

NEXT=xbmc;

while true;

do

case "$NEXT" in

"xbmc")

/usr/bin/runXBMC
NEXT=boxee;

;;

"boxee")

/home/xbmc/bin/runBoxee
NEXT=xbmc;
;;

esac

done


~/xbmc/bin/toggle.sh (make executable)

6. copy /usr/bin/runXBMC ~/xbmc/bin/runBoxee (make executable)
edit runBoxee so it launches boxee instead of XBMC

# echo "/usr/share/xbmc/xbmc.bin --standalone" >> /home/xbmc/.xsession
echo "/opt/boxee/Boxee --standalone" >> /home/xbmc/.xsession


7. edit file /ect/init/xbmc-live.conf
Change so that it runs toggle script

# exec /usr/bin/runXBMC
exec /home/xbmc/bin/toggle.sh &



8. add this kernel parameter to grub.
usbcore.autosuspend=-1

9. Enable Wake from USB to wake from remote or keyboard

1. open rc.local (executed after everything else when the system starts
Code:

sudo nano /etc/rc.local

2. Add the following line at the bottom, directly above "exit 0"
Code:

echo USB0 > /proc/acpi/wakeup

[maxim9]

Excluding the steps about the remote, I was able to get it to work great after making a minor change with the Boxee skin.

In the file /opt/boxee/skin/boxee/720p/DialogButtonMenu.xml the option for "Exit Boxee" actually performs shutdown instead of an exit. I changed

<onclick>XBMC.Shutdown()</onclick>

to

<onclick>XBMC.Quit()</onclick>

Using your method the toggle script is run via xbmc-live.conf, and then the run* script is run forever after the exit of each application. Very nice. Thanks for the help!

[krijeck]

Hello!

seems to be a quite old thread but I try to bring this up again because it is in my subscribed threads and I am still intrested in that issue!

Did someone test the above mentioned method of bringing Boxee into XBMC live with the newest version of XBMC Dharma?

Any experience so far?

Thanks
krijeck

[rahimlila]

Yes I have the latest available boxee for ubuntu running on Dharma. Issue still exists. Coming out of standby, audio no longer works in boxee.

[krijeck]

Yes I have the latest available boxee for ubuntu running on Dharma. Issue still exists. Coming out of standby, audio no longer works in boxee.

How can I install Boxee without installing seamonkey?
As I have the newest XBMC Dharma I asume that the method posted here:
http://forums.boxee.tv/showpost.php?p=78003&postcount=3
doesnt work any more?!
Which Sources do I have to include in my /etc/apt/sources.list file?
Any Idea?
Thanks
krijeck

ps:did not have time to try it out yesterday ...