ATV SSHC builds and script error 126

KevinSartori Wrote:Let me know how that goes, Roders! I'm curious if it's worth the effort!

I wish I knew how to help TheQuestor with that final piece of the puzzle. Hopefully, Davilla will pop into this thread at some point and help out.

tuckbodi, I do have it working for AppleTV. You can read my earlier posts to see what needs to be done, although at this point, I think all you really need to do is create a XBMCLauncherDownloads folder in /Users/frontrow/Library/Caches/ on your AppleTV (with WinSCP or similar) before starting the update in Launcher --> Downloads. CrystalHD is working. Well, as well as it currently works, that is...

Out of curiousity Kevin, are you able to get skins working with the newer builds? I can only see confluence and pm3 in the options even though I copied other skins to the addons folder. I'm trying to make a skin you see.

davilla Wrote:Sure you do, it's called "xbmc-9.04_update_sshcs.sh", that's pulled from your site.

I kind of wish I had the knowledge to actually write a script
the script may pull from my site, but its not my script nor is it hosted on my site All that is hosted on my site is an XML file that that script reads from.

http://www.sshcs.com/xbmc/info.asp


and that is the output though I don't see anything there that could cause the problem

Roders Wrote:Out of curiousity Kevin, are you able to get skins working with the newer builds? I can only see confluence and pm3 in the options even though I copied other skins to the addons folder. I'm trying to make a skin you see.

I have the following working well with 28000+ on my site in the skins section:
Transparency!
Aeon
Alaska
Basics-Vision
Backrow

I'll try to finish converting the other 20+ skins this weekend.

Kind of sucks that I now have to keep 2 distinct sets of skins but hopefully I can drop all non 28000+ skins in the next month or 3 Then I only should have to deal with Xbox compatible and 28000+ compatible. But for now at least I'll try to keep them all updated as best I can. Especially since the skins are such a moving target right now.

anyway. like i said i should have all 23 skins converted over this weekend.

Plus gonen was able to get 'export watched data' script working as well and that will be on my scripts section tonight.

Keep up the great work oh great devs of yore! Even if keeping up with all the changes is driving me bananas

I had to do the same thing as Roders and got it all working. Thx!

And @Roders, to get skins working in the new addons:
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=73134

Roders Wrote:Out of curiousity Kevin, are you able to get skins working with the newer builds? I can only see confluence and pm3 in the options even though I copied other skins to the addons folder. I'm trying to make a skin you see.

Transparency! is my skin of choice. I downloaded the lasted SVN build of Transparency! and put it in a folder called:

skin.transparency

and then moved that folder over to:

Users/frontrow/Applications/XBMC.app/Contents/Resources/XBMC/addons

Once that was done, I had to restart XBMC to get Transparency! to show up as a selectable option. Works great! I've found that transferring hundreds of files over with WinSCP is very slow. Your best bet is to ZIP the skin folder you want to extract over first and then transfer that. Once you've transferred the .ZIP file over, open up PuTTY and enter:

cd "Applications/XBMC.app/Contents/Resources/XBMC/addons"

and then:

unzip "skin.transparency.zip"

Obviously, replace "skin.transparency.zip" with whatever you named the .ZIP file. Make sure you ZIP up the folder itself and not the contents or you'll make a mess of your addons directory! Don't forget to delete the .ZIP file with WinSCP after you've extracted it with PuTTY.

Looking at that addons directory, it looks like the naming structure for skins is "skin.name of skin", so if you want to install, say, Alaska, make sure the folder is called:

skin.alaska

Use quotes around the URL parameter to wget:


I had no trouble downloading the update script:

Installs okay:

I initially had issues getting it to launch, was getting this error:
"Error: XBMC/Boxee exited with status: 6"

So I removed my existing install folder (/Users/frontrow/Library/Application Support/XBMC), reinstalled the new build, and it worked fine.

Note: I tried the update script with the newer build 30234, but ran into issues with the name of the dmg file not matching the expected name:

Phreeze Wrote:Note: I tried the update script with the newer build 30234, but ran into issues with the name of the dmg file not matching the expected name:

Code:

-bash-2.05b$ ./xbmc-9.04_update_sshcs.sh XBMC_OSX_30234.tgz
Extracting download XBMC_OSX_30234.tgz
tar: XBMC.dmg: Not found in archive
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
Installing from diskimage /Users/frontrow/Library/Caches/XBMCLauncherDownloads/XBMC.dmg
Failed to find diskimage /Users/frontrow/Library/Caches/XBMCLauncherDownloads/XBMC.dmg

oh crap. TeamXBMC changed the name of the DMG file the other day and now script needs to be updated to reflect the changes or if I have to I can just rename the dmg before it archives but that is not optimal. The most optimal is to get the script updated to deal with the new naming scheme

the package maker now names it XBMC_for_Mac.dmg
it used to be named XBMC.dmg

Craig

screw it for tonight and until the script is updated I'm going to create a new OSX archive and get it uploaded with the old naming scheme.

I tried running the script from Launcher --> Downloads and it failed with the 126 error again.

Thanks Phreeze for the advice:

Quote:Use quotes around the URL parameter to wget

I was able to wget both xbmc-9.04_update_sshcs.sh and XBMC_OSX_30234.tgz, but when I ran:


There was an error because that darn XBMCLauncherDownloads folder was missing again. Now the strange thing is that I just checked earlier and it was there! Maybe when I try to run the script from Launcher and it errors, the folder gets deleted? Or maybe it deletes at hard reboot? Anyway, after I re-created the folder with WinSCP, everything installed fine.

I didn't have to remove the existing install folder or settings folder to install the new build.

Unfortunately, something is still screwy when you try to install the update from Launcher --> Downloads. Has this worked for anyone yet?

BTW, it's kind of annoying that skins are now installed in the main XBMC installation folder. When you do an update, that folder gets wiped and you have to move your skin over again. I imagine this is on purpose and will work correctly once XBMC is out of beta and the plug-ins are up and ready to go.

Hey TheQuestor,

sorry, I totally missed this thread.

The xbmc-9.04_update_sshcs.sh is "hosted" in my Dropbox. I can change the file, but I guess it might be a better solution if you just host the update script on your machine. That way you can adapt it to your needs. Basically you'd just need to update the Info.asp and point the key "UpdateScript" to you own file instead of "http://files.getdropbox.com/u/858897/XBMC/xbmc-9.04_update_sshcs.sh".

Please feel free to ask if this isn't clear.

cheers,
mdd