PleXBMC client for XBMC

[bigbadrabbit]

Thanks for spending the time to find and fix - i'll make sure I pull this over this weekend, test and push out a new release.

What happened to that update? Any news on this?

[Zillur]

Waiting here in anticipation for new release… B)

[netmonky]

Hi Guys,



Am new to teh forum / plex project but I just want to say to EVERYONE - thanks. Its awesome! I have a respberry PI and it builds seet as a nut. The only problem I am having is when I enable transcoding - i just get a blank screen with the movie timer moving as if its playing. My Plex server looks to be sending the data to the PI but just get a black screen :-(. If i turn off transcoding - it works great, but not ideal if your streaming over WAN.



Does anyone else have this problem? Is there a fix? I am running the latest release 2.0 beta 4.





thanks in advance!

[adenbeckitt]

I also have the problem with the video not showing on the latest build on Raspbmc. If I roll back the version of XBMC I can get it to work.



This is the code I ran via ssh to get it to work.



sudo -s

initctl stop xbmc

rm -rf /opt/xbmc-bcm

wget http://download.raspbmc.com/downloads/bin/xbmc/xbmc-rbp-20120922.tar.gz

tar -xzf xbmc-rbp-20120922.tar.gz -C /opt

rm xbmc-rbp-20120922.tar.gz

ldconfig

reboot





However, I’d love to be able to run it without worrying about it updating itself and me losing the ability to transcode (some of my plugins need it)

[netmonky]

Thanks Aden - i will give it a try. I have sent my debug logs to the developer so I hope he will have time to take a look soon

[adenbeckitt]

Thanks Aden - i will give it a try. I have sent my debug logs to the developer so I hope he will have time to take a look soon :-)

Report back so we can confirm whether or not it is a quick fix that works for everyone. Thanks :)

[netmonky]

Yep, works great !



I am trying to install the plexbmc skins but all show broken as they require the .gui version 2.11.



Any new skins, work around ?



Thanks

[adenbeckitt]

Yeah, I have the quartz skin working quite well



I can’t remember where I got it from, it was deep in some github cave so you’ll have to grab it from my site;

http:///www.adenbeckitt.co.uk/rpi/



Also, I’m unsure which it is (out of the two) - I think it’s plexbmc.skin.zip but it could be the other! (try them both)



Furthermore, I had some problems regarding a line of debug text at the top of my screen with the skin. If you have that problem follow these instructions from earlier in this thread;

Edit addon.xml and change the debug line from "true" to "false".

Okay, that took me a while to find :P It was set to false in the zip so had to go into SSH on the pi.

If anyone needs to do it, the skin is located here : /home/pi/.xbmc/addons

boom, thanks :)

Hope this helps :)

[netmonky]

for people having issues finding a skin to incorporate plex into raspxbmc with gui version > 2.11 (broken skins in repo) try KVS’s modification https://github.com/kvs/skin.quartz.plexbmc.git



works great for me so far and complete an excellent media player. B)

[bigbadrabbit]

Yeah, I have the quartz skin working quite well :)

I can't remember where I got it from, it was deep in some github cave so you'll have to grab it from my site;
http:///www.adenbeckitt.co.uk/rpi/

Also, I'm unsure which it is (out of the two) - I think it's plexbmc.skin.zip but it could be the other! (try them both)

Furthermore, I had some problems regarding a line of debug text at the top of my screen with the skin. If you have that problem follow these instructions from earlier in this thread;

Hope this helps :)

Thanks for that!

Did anyone get the Mediashelf working to have it show the recently added items?

[nickdanger3d]

New to PlexBMC, I’m running it on a raspberry pi. I got the modified quartz skin working as far as I can tell, but I can’t figure out how to get my “On Deck” items to show up in the media shelf? The best I could figure out is to get a button “On Deck” that I created a favorite of but ideally I’d just like the contents of the On Deck screen to show in the media shelf. Any suggestions?



I’d also be interested in adding the show name/poster/banner to many of the Views for the On Deck section, but I’m having a rough time understanding how the skin works with respect to that.

[Egon01]

Hi. Another newb here looking for some guidance.



I’ve just installed PleXBMC on my RasperryPi but I’m not having much luck with it. I followed through the set-up instructions as far as adding skins, all the Plex skin options come up as broken for me & when tried to create a dummy library, there was no “addons” in the home folder.

More importantly I can’t get any videos to play. XBMC will let me view the files, although it hangs for quite a while when trying to bring up artwork & info, but when I actually try and play the file it attempts but says ‘stream failed’.



Any help would be most appreciated.

[Peter91101]

Hi,

…On Deck screen to show in the media shelf. Any suggestions?

This would be very appreciate!

Thanks for PleXBMC an all the wonderful work!

[vandalon]

Unfortunately none of the Plex plugins work for me. Inside PleXBMC i go to CHANNELS and for example select iPhoto or iTunes (music) and nothing happens. The plugins work fine inside Plex.


Another "issue" is the way information about various episodes in RECENTLY ADDED or ON DECK section is beeing displayed.
There's no info for the TV Show title or season number.

Here's what it looks like in XBMC library mode:
[http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/2883/80871732.png](http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/19/80871732.png/)

And here with PleXBMC:
[http://img832.imageshack.us/img832/6768/88724592.png](http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/832/88724592.png/)


Also the title on top of each section is always set to **PleXBMC** instead of the current section. And also the partly watched flags aren't shown.

This is easily fixed:

Line 1296: Change if tree.get('mixedParents',0) == 1: to if tree.get('mixedParents',0) != 0:

[bigbadrabbit]

This is easily fixed:

Line 1296: Change if tree.get('mixedParents',0) == 1: to if tree.get('mixedParents',0) != 0:

Thanks for that but... where?

[EDIT] Solved! :D Of course it's **default.py**

Season information would be great as well, like:

**Dexter: 07x03**

[vandalon]

Thanks for that but... where?

[EDIT] Solved! :D Of course it's **default.py**

Season information would be great as well, like:

**Dexter: 07x03**

Change line 1294 to: details['title'] = str(details['season']).zfill(2) + "x" + str(details['episode']).zfill(2) + ": " + details['title']

Cheers,
Joris

[bigbadrabbit]

Change line 1294 to: details['title'] = str(details['season']).zfill(2) + "x" + str(details['episode']).zfill(2) + ": " + details['title']

Cheers,
Joris

Thanks again, **Joris**!
I've also changed **:** to **|** which makes the view even cleaner and easier to read, IMHO :)

[http://imageshack.us/a/img88/6573/bildschirmfoto20121023u.png](http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/88/bildschirmfoto20121023u.png/)



By the way, do you know what changes are needed for populating the **media shelf** with **Recently Added** or **On Deck** items? ;)

[vandalon]

By the way, do you know what changes are needed for populating the **media shelf** with **Recently Added** or **On Deck** items? ;)

A lot more work and research :D

[bigbadrabbit]

A lot more work and research :D

Thought so :D

[adenbeckitt]

Thanks again, **Joris**!
I've also changed **:** to **|** which makes the view even cleaner and easier to read, IMHO :)

[http://imageshack.us/a/img88/6573/bildschirmfoto20121023u.png](http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/88/bildschirmfoto20121023u.png/)

Can you remember which skin it was that you installed? :)