Slingbox client and Slingbox SlingPlayer support built-into XBMC?

First post. Hello everyone - been using XBMC for one day now - absolutely love it. I have tons of addons - love the skins - great all-around program. The only thing I couldn't figure out yesterday was how to get slingplayer working. I just perused all the comments and I think I found my problem, but I'm not home to confirm it, so I thought I'd ask:

The slingbox name you give it at setup - and the slingbox live login are not used in the username slot - is that right? What everyone is supposed to use is Administrator - yes? Followed by your password.

Thanks for any help - I'm sure this threw a lot of people off.

I'm going to answer my own question for anyone who was curious.

Yes - everyone needs to use Administrator - it's the only option that works.

Now to figure out the custom settings to get higher resolutions, and how to change the channels with an apple tv remote.

(2012-05-08 00:40)roark007 Wrote:  I'm going to answer my own question for anyone who was curious.

Yes - everyone needs to use Administrator - it's the only option that works.

Now to figure out the custom settings to get higher resolutions, and how to change the channels with an apple tv remote.

As far as I know, Administrator and Viewer will work.

You have to set up a view only user name to use Viewer, and they cant change channel.

(2012-04-23 10:29)b7ll Wrote:  Have a read of http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Slingbox_Client

It works well for viewing the current channel on the slingbox, but I havn't tried to implement channel changing yet.

It looks like only buttons 0-9 and channel up/down are supported at the moment.

Thanks, let me try this tomorrow. I am a bit confused reading the posts in this forum whether / how "channel up / down" works. Do I read this correctly that the channel change does not work with an Apple Remote?

hey guys im having a problem using this application:

currently i am trying to use this over the WAN.. i have successfully been able to use the slingplayer application (old one from slingmedia.com) and that works fine... Or viewing online works fine.. but this application will not work?

This is my error below? any tips?

19:20:28 T:15712 NOTICE: DVDPlayer: Opening: sling://Administrator:pass@myip
19:20:28 T:15712 WARNING: CDVDMessageQueue(player)::Put MSGQ_NOT_INITIALIZED
19:20:28 T:16072 NOTICE: Creating InputStream
19:20:49 T:16072 ERROR: XFILE::CSlingboxFile::Open - Error connecting to Slingbox: myip
19:20:49 T:16072 ERROR: CDVDPlayer::OpenInputStream - error opening [sling://Administrator:pass@myip/]
19:20:49 T:16072 NOTICE: CDVDPlayer::OnExit()
19:20:49 T:16072 NOTICE: CDVDPlayer::OnExit() deleting input stream
19:20:49 T:15712 ERROR: Playlist Player: skipping unplayable item: 0, path [sling://Administrator:pass@myip/]
19:20:49 T:15712 NOTICE: CDVDPlayer::CloseFile()
19:20:49 T:15712 WARNING: CDVDMessageQueue(player)::Put MSGQ_NOT_INITIALIZED
19:20:49 T:15712 NOTICE: DVDPlayer: waiting for threads to exit
19:20:49 T:15712 NOTICE: DVDPlayer: finished waiting

i finally got it!

so i changed the button maps and that is now working.. The only thing that does not seem to be changing is the resolution or bitrate on the video?


is this a common problem?

also an update for Cox Communications (Silver) remote (with DVR)

HEX 23: Guide
HEX 24: Exit
HEX 26: UP
HEX 27: DOWN
HEX 28: Left
HEX 29: Right
HEX 2A: Select

HEX 9: 1
HEX A: 2
HEX B: 3
HEX C: 4
HEX D: 5
HEX E: 6
HEX F: 7
HEX 10: 8
HEX 11 : 9
HEX 12: 0



is there anyway for me to map the menu, select, guide, exit buttons?(how can i map something to letter A or something like that ?)

the up down buttons are for the guide not channel up/down (only work when you map to numbers.. bizzare.. will not work if i map to updown arrows

(2012-07-18 02:00)ambush276 Wrote:  i finally got it!

so i changed the button maps and that is now working.. The only thing that does not seem to be changing is the resolution or bitrate on the video?


is this a common problem?

Please update what you did to finally get it, when you post comments like "I Finally got it!" that does nothing for others searching for a solution.