[mythtv-users] Running XBMC on an Xbox as a MythTV frontend

[Nick Rout]

On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 9:06 AM, Vitani <vitani-mythtv at tfxsoft.com> wrote:
> 2010/1/19 Robert Johnston <anaerin at gmail.com>
>>
>> On 19/01/2010 3:50 AM, Vitani wrote:
>>>
>>> Luckily(?) I don't record anything in HD so SD is fine for my current
>>> situation. If you can, would you mind finding out which version of XBMC
>>> and MythTV you are running Robert as I tried the myth:// protocol last
>>> night and while it showed up all of my channels, when I tried to "play"
>>> one it errored (something about too many consecutive failures, or
>>> something, can't remember off the top-of-my-head). I'm pretty sure I
>>> need to update my version of XBMC, but I am running MythTV 0.22-fixes
>>>
>>> Glad to see someone has gotten it to work though! There is hope :o)
>>
>> I've been running several versions. The one thing you may need to do,
>> however, is check your DNS settings. XBMC on the XBox tries to resolve the
>> host name to access the backend, and if it can't resolve it, it fails (in
>> the way that you're seeing now).
>>
>> Alternatively, you can add a "hosts" entry in your advancedsettings.xml
>> like so:
>>
>> <advancedsettings>
>>  <hosts>
>>    <entry name="HOSTNAME">IPADDRESS</entry>
>>  </hosts>
>> </advancedsettings>
>>
>> This will over-ride the DNS resolver.
>>
>> The advancedsettings.xml file does not exist by default, so you will need
>> to create it in your userdata folder.
>>
>> More info about it is here:
>> http://xbmc.org/wiki/?title=AdvancedSettings.xml
>
>
> I created advancedsettings.xml, added an entry (phoenix -> 192.168.0.10),
> and then tried using the myth:// protocol
> (myth://mythtv:password@192.168.0.10). While it does add a source to my
> Video list, I can't get the options therein to work:
>
> All recordings - does nothing*
> Guide - shows a list of all channels, and each channel shows me today's
> guide information for said channel
> Live Channels - navigates to an empty list
> Movies - does nothing*
> TV Shows - does nothing*
>
> * I can hear the Xbox make a noise (perhaps the HDD working?), but XBMC
> remains on the same screen.
>
> I've checked that the mythtv database password is correct (using "mysql -u
> mythtv -p" on my server), and as it's pulling out the guide data, I assume
> that part must be working.
>
> Any thoughts on why none of the video functions are ... er ... functioning?
> :o)

I am using ubuntu 9.10 on the laptop with xbmc 9.11. dns works on my
lan and I have set the video source to myth://mythtv:password@media
(where media is the backend). It works fine.

xbmc produces detailed logs. As this is probably getting OT in this
email list, may I suggest the xbmc forum?