[Johndill]

Sorry if this is the wrong thread, I'm new here, this is what I mean:PREVIEW HERE

This only works with the default skin as far as I know, It'll probably work with others if you play around with it.
HOW-TO:
First, download and setup Big Picture Launcher: HERE

Next, I followed this: HERE except changed the name and pointed it to BigPictureLauncher.exe.
DISCLAIMER: The directory where you keep Big Picture Launcher must not have spaces, otherwise xbmc won't find it.

Last, I added a black background, hid the desktop icons and the task bar.

I hope this helps and maybe you have better ideas to improve it.

[teeedubb]

Welcome to the forums.

Ive put together a addon to launch steam bpm from within xbmc, no need to edit skin files and because its a addon it can be added to the confluence home screen.

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=157499

[Johndill]

Welcome to the forums.

Ive put together a addon to launch steam bpm from within xbmc, no need to edit skin files and because its a addon it can be added to the confluence home screen.

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=157499

Thanks :-) I posted this because all the other ones I found weren't very good, yours look like what I'm after.

[Silhouette35]

Does anyone have suggestions for a theme that matches up well with Big Picture?

I've built my HTPC to run XBMC/Steam, but aside from the seamless exchange, I would like the themes to look the same. Metropolis is the closest Ive seen, but doesnt have the flexibility that Aeon does.

If I could get XBMC to look exactly like the Big Picture, or vice versa, I would be happy to change either frontend if possible...

Any thoughts?

Thanks!!

[raytango19]

Welcome to the forums.

Ive put together a addon to launch steam bpm from within xbmc, no need to edit skin files and because its a addon it can be added to the confluence home screen.

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=157499

Works like a charm!! Great job! Now if we could Intergrate Origin or Battlelog for Battlefield.

[teeedubb]

I launch BF4 via a autohotkey script and advanced launcher, but I wish EA would ditch Origin, delete all the source code and put their games on steam - Origin is hell buggy and isn't controller friendly and neither is BF4 - its worse than non controller supported games because its implemented so badly, which is really strange - they made it work for consoles...

[aoaaron]

hey this works perfectly for me except i see the desktop for about 5 seconds. any fixes?

[teeedubb]

The Steam Launcher thread has some methods to speed up steam, plus try the new version, it works on windows opening, not hard timeouts, so should feel more seamless.

[TItanKing]

I always used advance launcher then I found Steam launcher:
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=157499

Works like a charm.

[nissmo66]

So, I've installed and configured this add-on and it fails.

I can post a log file if I knew where it was dumping to.....

[teeedubb]

My addon? It logs to the xbmc log file (wiki)

[mikepjbell]

Hi guys,
I'm having a bit of an odd problem, but I can't wait to get it resolved because this is a brilliant thing to be able to do, so thank you for that.
I'm using xbmc on Windows 8.1 and when I launch steam from xbmc using your script xbmc closes fine and then steams big picture mode flashes on the screen, but then minimises. It's still running at this point because I can hear the background noise you get in big picture mode and if I press a button on my xbox360 controller I hear sounds. Bit of a weird one as I said :/

[ScorpioJonesy]

Hi guys,
I'm having a bit of an odd problem, but I can't wait to get it resolved because this is a brilliant thing to be able to do, so thank you for that.
I'm using xbmc on Windows 8.1 and when I launch steam from xbmc using your script xbmc closes fine and then steams big picture mode flashes on the screen, but then minimises. It's still running at this point because I can hear the background noise you get in big picture mode and if I press a button on my xbox360 controller I hear sounds. Bit of a weird one as I said :/

What happens when you launch steam outside of XBMC does it minimize then too?

Do you have any controls bound the the controller that may cause it to minimize?