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Icerat · (This post was last modified: 2013-09-23, 12:19 by Icerat.)

Hi
Took a little break from my learning to skin confluence and the whole project in general due to time constraints, but back now and must say am surprised how much i remembered. The skin is coming on in leaps and bonds now even if it doesn't look as pretty as some of the great skins on here.

Its got to the point where most of the basic stuff is done, ie menus, views, etc, the general stuff i use on my media center everyday, the question is how do activate the LiveTV portions without an actual having a TVcard in my media center.

If i open VideoOSD.xml for example its got to the point were i can read it and see there are portions of the code (record buttons, whats next, etc etc) that are just for LiveTV, I can see what they do but how do i activate them without actually having LiveTV so i can move the assets around and get them inline with the rest of my skin design.

How can i get XBMC to think and activate all the LiveTV Stuff, a demo mode of sorts.

How do the pros achieve this, hope it makes sense.

t-magnus · 2013-09-18, 17:16

I think that is what the PVR Demo Client is for. Enable it the same as any other PVR client and be sure to enable Live TV in the settings.

Icerat · 2013-09-18, 19:57

I found the demo PVR Client and was able to access the demo EPG, TV Channels, Radio list and various other screens related to the LiveTV parts.

How do you guys get the LiveTV components of the OSD to show up?

User 34959 · 2013-09-18, 20:09

To make it look a bit realistic you can install this > http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=142639. The link to the twit.tv stream does not seem to work anymore, i'm using the first link from here > http://wiki.twit.tv/wiki/TWiT_Live#Advan...Live_Video.

Icerat · 2013-09-18, 22:03

Quick question, what url do you use for the live stream, also none of the logos show up for the channels.

User 34959 · 2013-09-18, 22:07

Now i realized they weren't working for me neither, but copying pvr.demo from program files / XBMC.app whatever you're using to user data fixed it, so it was a permission problem.

http://iphone-streaming.ustream.tv/ustre...ylist.m3u8

Icerat · 2013-09-19, 01:11

I tried that link in my PVRDemoAddonSettings.xml file and it didnt work when i clicked on the top link.

Code:
<channel>

      <name>TWIT (live TV stream)</name>

      <radio>0</radio>

      <number>1</number>

      <encryption>0</encryption>

      <icon>special://home/addons/pvr.demo/data/twit.png</icon>

      <stream>http://iphone-streaming.ustream.tv/ustre...ylist.m3u8</stream>

    </channel>

**ronie** · 2013-09-19, 02:21

(2013-09-19, 01:11)Icerat Wrote: I tried that link in my PVRDemoAddonSettings.xml file and it didnt work when i clicked on the top link.

Code:
<channel> <name>TWIT (live TV stream)</name> <radio>0</radio> <number>1</number> <encryption>0</encryption> <icon>special://home/addons/pvr.demo/data/twit.png</icon> <stream>http://iphone-streaming.ustream.tv/ustre...ylist.m3u8</stream> </channel>

hehe, you might have more luck with:
<stream>http://iphone-streaming.ustream.tv/ustreamVideo/1524/streams/live/playlist.m3u8</stream>

Icerat · 2013-09-19, 08:44

hehe worked a treat, was late and a blonde moment I guess lol thanks.

Is there a way to point it to an avi instead of a stream so that I can still work on this when I don't have net access?

Icerat · 2013-09-23, 12:19

Flagging as solved as moved the data to pvrtemp in my skin directory and pointed it there, allowed me to get what i needed done.