tuckbodi Wrote:I think I read around here somewhere that it has something to do with how he's building it because he was using a 10.5 version of something or other. Thus, the build will work on say a Mac w/10.5 or greater but will not work on say an AppleTV w/10.4. I think that's what I read and actually proved it worked on my Mac mini running 10.6 but got an error on my ATV with the same XBMC.

KevinSartori Wrote:ssh frontrow@appletv.local
defaults write com.teamxbmc.xbmclauncher XBMCAdditionalDownloadPlistURLs -array http://www.sshcs.com/xbmc/Info.asp

This adds the SSHC nightly build option to Launcher. When you go into the Launcher menu and then select Downloads, you can select it and it downloads, but, unfortunately, when it tries to install, it gives the following onscreen error:

Error: Update script exited with status: 126

You can hit the Menu button to escape back to the AppleTV menu screen. Before you guys launched the official nightly builds, I used to use it to update to the latest XBMC build for AppleTV, but somewhere along the line, it became broken. I tried emailing the guy who runs the SSHC site (TheQuestor), but he doesn't have an AppleTV and doesn't seem to know why it doesn't work. In fact, I kind of got the impression that he thought it might just be a problem on my end...

KevinSartori Wrote:I'm not really that good at this kind of stuff, but I'll give it a try. Here's what I got when I ran those four lines of code in PuTTY:

Code:

login as: frontrow
frontrow@192.168.1.107's password:
Last login: Wed May 12 09:42:44 2010 from 192.168.1.148
-bash-2.05b$ wget http://files.getdropbox.com/u/858897/XBMC/xbmc-9.04_update_sshcs.sh
--09:45:54--  http://files.getdropbox.com/u/858897/XBMC/xbmc-9.04_update_sshcs.sh
           => `xbmc-9.04_update_sshcs.sh'
Resolving files.getdropbox.com... 174.129.27.251
Connecting to files.getdropbox.com|174.129.27.251|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 301 Moved Permanently
Location: http://files.dropbox.com/u/858897/XBMC/xbmc-9.04_update_sshcs.sh [following]
--09:45:54--  http://files.dropbox.com/u/858897/XBMC/xbmc-9.04_update_sshcs.sh
           => `xbmc-9.04_update_sshcs.sh'
Resolving files.dropbox.com... 75.101.136.120, 75.101.148.191, 174.129.33.159, ...
Connecting to files.dropbox.com|75.101.136.120|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 4,649 (4.5K) [text/x-sh]

100%[====================================>] 4,649         --.--K/s

09:45:54 (145.57 KB/s) - `xbmc-9.04_update_sshcs.sh' saved [4649/4649]

-bash-2.05b$ wget http://www.sshcs.com/xbmc/?mode=CW&P=OSX&R=30020
[1] 194
[2] 195
-bash-2.05b$ --09:46:08--  http://www.sshcs.com/xbmc/?mode=CW
           => `index.html?mode=CW'
Resolving www.sshcs.com... 72.167.131.44
Connecting to www.sshcs.com|72.167.131.44|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 500 Internal Server Error
09:46:10 ERROR 500: Internal Server Error.

chmod +x xbmc-9.04_update_sshcs.sh
[1]-  Exit 1                  wget http://www.sshcs.com/xbmc/?mode=CW
[2]+  Done                    P=OSX
-bash-2.05b$ ./xbmc-9.04_update_sshcs.sh XBMC_OSX_30020.tgz
Extracting download XBMC_OSX_30020.tgz
Failed to find download XBMC_OSX_30020.tgz
-bash-2.05b$

Looking at the last error, I downloaded XBMC_OSX_30020.tgz manually and moved the file over to the frontrow directory using WinSCP. Then I tried that last line again in PuTTY:

Code:

-bash-2.05b$ ./xbmc-9.04_update_sshcs.sh XBMC_OSX_30020.tgz
Extracting download XBMC_OSX_30020.tgz
tar: /Users/frontrow/Library/Caches/XBMCLauncherDownloads: Cannot chdir: No such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
Installing from diskimage /Users/frontrow/Library/Caches/XBMCLauncherDownloads/XBMC.dmg
Failed to find diskimage /Users/frontrow/Library/Caches/XBMCLauncherDownloads/XBMC.dmg
-bash-2.05b$

Using WinRAR, I can see that the XBMC_OSX_30020.tgz archive contains the file XBMC.dmg. I extracted it manually. I noticed that there was no XBMCLauncherDownloads directory in Caches, so I created one. I moved XBMC.dmg to the /Users/frontrow/Library/Caches/XBMCLauncherDownloads directory with WinSCP and tried that last line again:

Code:

-bash-2.05b$ ./xbmc-9.04_update_sshcs.sh XBMC_OSX_30020.tgz
Extracting download XBMC_OSX_30020.tgz
Installing from diskimage /Users/frontrow/Library/Caches/XBMCLauncherDownloads/XBMC.dmg
Password:
Checksumming Driver Descriptor Map (DDM : 0)...
     Driver Descriptor Map (DDM : 0): verified   CRC32 $5BEDCE33
Checksumming Apple (Apple_partition_map : 1)...
     Apple (Apple_partition_map : 1): verified   CRC32 $36BFC610
Checksumming disk image (Apple_HFS : 2)...
..............................................................................
          disk image (Apple_HFS : 2): verified   CRC32 $2D843C0B
Checksumming  (Apple_Free : 3)...
                    (Apple_Free : 3): verified   CRC32 $00000000
verified   CRC32 $C928C93D
/dev/disk1              Apple_partition_scheme
/dev/disk1s1            Apple_partition_map
/dev/disk1s2            Apple_HFS                       /Volumes/XBMC
"disk1" unmounted.
"disk1" ejected.
osx_gl_fullscreen present in advancedsettings.xml
-bash-2.05b$

It seemed like it might have worked, but when I try to launch XBMC from the AppleTV launcher menu, I get the following onscreen error:

Error: XBMC/Boxee exited with status: 5
Hit menu to return

I was a little worried that I might have completely blown out XBMC, but I was able to go in to the Downloads section of Launcher and reinstall the last official nightly build, XBMC svn r28256. Whew!

I would love to experiment with the latest changes, but there doesn't seem to be an easy way for XBMC on AppleTV folks to go about it.