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Hi there,

I'm trying to get XBMC working on a Pi for music only, problem is i don't have a TV or monitor to use to drive the XBMC interface.

hence i'd like to use the awxi web interface from my laptop to configure and control the pi..

my question: is it possible to install AWXI without using the add-ons install interface in the actual program ? for example i have tried unzipping the addon into the addons dir but it never seems to get used by XBMC when it starts.

from what i understand i can't use X11 forwarding to see the XBMC interface.. is this true ?

any tips would be greatly appreciated,

cheers,

-ivan

I think you will need to install the add-on through XBMC...sorry.

Messing around on my local desktop I could change the webinterface from awxi to default (and back) by changing the webskin element in the file guisettings (while XBMC was not running).


File guisettings should be in XBMC's userdata folder.

This is a hack and may not work at all for you since awxi was not installed through XBMC already. But it is something you could try.

Regards,
Kabooga

Hi there Kabooga, thanks for your response...

in fact i got it going in the end.. first i edited guisettings.xml and enabled the webserver

then i installed the AWXI plugin by downloading it directly from here:

http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/multimedia/xbmc/...face.awxi/

(can i say how difficult it is to find the direct download urls for plugins?)

and then i unzipped it to the add on dir, then using the trick described here:
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid...#pid628877

specfically:
sudo ln -s ~/.xbmc/addons/webinterface.awx/ /usr/share/xbmc/addons/webinterface.default/awx

then after restarting xmbc i could browse to http://<hostname>:8080/awx/ and it works !!

from there i can force a reload of the library so i don't need/never needed the normal gui.

awesome work by the XBMC mob !!!!

cheers

Nice! Glad you got it working.