Launching from MythTV

[JCA]

Quick tip for MythTV people from Brad DerManouelian on the myth user forums:

Add to mainmenu.xml:

<button>
<type>TV_WATCH_RECORDINGS</type>
<text>Launch Boxee</text>
<action>EXEC /opt/boxee/run-boxee-desktop</action>
</button>

[misterjamin]

I took this a step further. In your current theme's theme.xml (mine is /usr/share/mythtv/themes/Pear-odyTV-wide/theme.xml), add:

  <buttondef name="MENU_BOXEE">
    <image>ui/button_off.png</image>
    <watermarkimage>watermark/boxee.png</watermarkimage>
    <offset>0,0</offset>
  </buttondef>

Then, drop http://public.benlancaster.co.uk/boxee.png in /usr/share/mythtv/theme/[your-theme]/watermark/

Update the <type> definition in Boxee's <button> tag to "MENU_BOXEE" and you get a pretty Boxee logo too, e.g.:

<button>
      <text>Boxee</text>
      <type>MENU_BOXEE</type>
      <action>EXEC /opt/boxee/Boxee</action>
</button>

Looks great on my theme (PearODY)

[gregms]

If your like me and use Blootube-wide, I added the Boxee Image in with the blue color-scheme.

Feel free to download it:
http://gregms.dyndns.org/images/boxee.png

[sp00ge]

Apologies if this isn't the right forum to be asking,

but does this all change with the latest MythTV trunk with the new MythUI changes ?

I'm using Blootube-Wide and can't find the theme.xml in either default-wide or blootube-wide directories.

Regards

[paulsmith288]

Hi ,

Thanks for the info people.

I use the classic type of menus , rather than default.

When set to classic , Boxee doesn't show up.
When using default it does.

Any tips?

[sp00ge]

Originally Posted by paulsmith288

Hi ,

Thanks for the info people.

I use the classic type of menus , rather than default.

When set to classic , Boxee doesn't show up.
When using default it does.

Any tips?

I'm not entirely sure, as I can't find the theme.xml file but in my
/usr/local/share/mythtv/themes directory there is a classic directory.
Perhaps try to make the changes in there ?

[misterjamin]

Originally Posted by sp00ge

Does this all change with the latest MythTV trunk with the new MythUI changes ?

V.Good question, and not one I know the answer too. I don't think the Wiki's been updated with the skinning instructions for the QT4 MythUI stuff, try the mythtv-users or mythtv-dev lists.

[bravid]

The method described in the post has no dependency on Myth, it's simply launching an external program on top of myth so no worried about changes in trunk.

[misterjamin]

Originally Posted by bravid

The method described in the post has no dependency on Myth, it's simply launching an external program on top of myth so no worried about changes in trunk.

The whole UI and theming stuff for MythTV is being rewritten in QT4, sp00ge is running trunk code, and can't find the relevenat theme files, implying that the new MythUI stuff changes things.

[sp00ge]

Sorry, i'm probably confusing you all here with my half baked answers.

I am running MythTV from the SVN Trunk.
/usr/local/share/mythtv/mainmenu.xml still exists and i've managed to add the code to call Boxee from there no problem.

I was more referring to the fact that the recent UI changes in MythTV mean that the themes themselves no longer have a theme.xml file. Being as my knowledge of themes for MythTV is more or less nothing (Apart from downloading and installing) I can't work out how to make a nice Boxee image appear when I select Launch Boxee from Myth's menu.

I've been scouring the MythTV mailing lists to see if I can find any nuggets of information that might point me in the right direction, but to be honest I keep getting distracted with actually playing with Boxee !