Here's a great quote to start this out on.sabat: ya, I'll never forget the name vail. :) when I was reading the suprised and annoyed peoples comments, I was thinking of walking down the aisle, lifting the womans vail, and seeing some ugly chick that isn't what you expected. I thought the analogy fit. When I got my hands on amahi, the first thing I wanted was for it to not only store my movies, but also play them! I've done this for years using an xbox running xbmc, so I figured why not on my amahi server! Well, it worked, and here's how I did it. Currently I have been unable to get the webserver to work. I saw no reason to go through the full compile process, seeing that the only thing it adds is the webserver, which is broken. This method uses a RPM from rpmfusion, and takes about 1% of the time that the compiling method takes. Also this is based on nvidia video cards, I'll try to get to ATI and intel later. I know the average joe won't be able to install video drivers easily, so I am attempting to include the info on the video drivers, specially because fedora 12 is aging and documentation is starting to get somewhat stale for it on other websites. I literally had to use 5 or more websites to get this to work. This was mainly tested on a fairly basic test system, HP a282n, 2gb ram, 40gb hd, nvidia mx-440 8xAGP using the Fedora 12 based, 32bit amahi Amahi express cd.

#install amahi Install Amahi (via express cd)#once Once you get a login prompt, login as admin/admin

#goto Go to the webapps section on the hda page http://hda/setup?sub=available&tab=app and add rpmfusion and rpmfusion nonfree in the web apps secion

#xbmc XBMC also needs an addition to the xorg Xorg server, otherwise it crashes every time you run it.

you You may have to reboot after disabling the nouveau driver before installing the driver

add Add blacklist nouveau to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist, I'm sure there is a sed command for this, will get to it later, I used this next command and added it manually. nano /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf

# Install the DLNA server, it works perfectly with any movies you put in the movies share, photos you put in the pictures share, and any music in the music folder. I've heard mention that mkv files might not work with dlna, but I have not verified this.# if If you have a noisy server, remember you don't have to have the pc in the same room as the tvTV, I don't and it works great, or put the server in a closet or something on the other side of the wall and run a cable to the back of the tv.

[[image:xbmc-logo.png]] [[image:xbmc-ss.png]] ==Installing = Synchronize XBMC library with devices (Raspberry)=== First the starting point: I have OpenELEC mainly running on my RPi (version is r13078 from http://openelec.thestateofme.com/) and wanted other devices, e.g. a tablet, to pick up at the same position where I stopped watching on the RPi. Usually XBMC stores this information locally so you could potentially run into a big mess and unsynchronized XBMC installations. So I wanted to get a neat setup where I would not have to worry about which device I now need to use to start at the same part where I left. For this I wanted to use the built-in MySQL server that comes with Amahi and store the media related information there. In order to do so we just need to modify/ create the advancedsettings.xml file in the XBMC installation(s). They all need to be the same though, i.e. a Frodo installation cannot work on the same database as an Eden installation. This is what you need to do: 1. SSH into the server or via Terminal and create a MySQL user and database (this will be the user for the XBMC installations)  hda-create-user-and-db xbmc<!--1. SSH into the server or via Terminal and access the MySQL environment in order to create a user (this will be the user for the XBMC installations) Code = mysql -u root -p}} The standard password used by Amahi is "hda". 2. Paste the SQL command to create the user, set permissions, and update everything{{Code|Code = CREATE USER 'xbmc' IDENTIFIED BY 'xbmc';GRANT ALL ON *.* TO 'xbmc'; FLUSH PRIVILEGES;}}--> 2. Now we need to make the adjustments on the OpenELEC installation in order to have OpenELEC connect and use the MySQL database  2.1 Open the OpenELEC SMB Share "Userdata" and in it create a file called "advancedsettings.xml" (or edit it if it's already created; DO NOT delete the content already written in it, just add the following code). The following needs to be entered (replace 'x.x.x.x' with the IP of the HDA):<pre>Code = <advancedsettings><videodatabase><type>mysql</type><host>x.x.x.x</host><port>3306</port><user>xbmc</user><pass>xbmc</pass></videodatabase><musicdatabase><type>mysql</type><host>x.x.x.x</host><port>3306</port><user>xbmc</user><pass>xbmc</pass></musicdatabase></advancedsettings></pre> 2.2 Save the file. 2.3 In the same SMB share on Fedora 12your OpenELEC installation please go into the "Database" folder to delete "MyVideosXX.db" & "MyMusicXX.db". XX seem to be random numbers. 3. Reboot the Raspberry === XBMC Gotham MySQL Database=== <ins>'''Configure MySQL for XBMC'''</ins> In previous XBMC versions, we manually created the SQL databases for XBMC, with version 12.0 and up, the databases will automatically created by XMBC. The only thing we need to do is create a user account Open phpMyAdmin from the HDA app page (or install it). Click on the 'Add user' link at the 'Users' tab. [http://www.robvanhamersveld.nl/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/phpMyAdmin01.png ''<ins>phpMyAdmin Users</ins>''] Fill in the user details, I'm using username 'xbmc' with password 'xbmc'. Click at 'Global privileges' on 'Check All', by doing this the account is capable to create and alter databases on the MySQL server. In a production setup you probably don't want to do this but in a home network it's fine. [http://www.robvanhamersveld.nl/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/phpMyAdmin02.png ''<ins>phpMyAdmin User Details</ins>''] That's it, your database server is ready to serve XBMC.

XBMC by default has no rpm<ins>''s, and compiling doesnt work due to some error in the python library.however, someone was kind enough to compile working rpm's out of the SVN branch, making Connect XBMC a nice piece of quality software to add to your HDA expirience.shared database'''</ins>

===Installing OK, the required repository's===Firstdatabase is up, only thing left is to connect XBMC to it. There is no fancy configuration option in the GUI so we have to edit/create 2 files:a .xml file again. Don't worry, it isn't that hard.

*/etc/yumThe file we need to create (not default present after the installation of XBMC) is advancedsettings.reposxml and place it into the XBMC userdata folder.d/spotnet.repothe contents of In this file we define the MySQL database connection. It should be:<br>[spotnet]<br>name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - SpotNet<br>baseurl=http://fedora.spot.net.id/yum/fedora/$releasever/$basearch/<br>gpgcheck=0look like this;

*/etc/yum.repos.d/atrpms.repothe contents of this file should be:<br>[atrpms]<br>name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - ATrpms<br>baseurl=http://dlwww.atrpmsrobvanhamersveld.netnl/f$releaseverwp-$basearchcontent/atrpmsuploads/stable<br>gpgkey=http:2012/03/ATrpmsadvancedsettings.netpng ''<ins>Advanced Settings</RPM-GPG-KEY.atrpms<brins>gpgcheck=1'']

You must replace *run yum update to have yum update its packages lists**.***.***.*** with the IP-address of your MySQL database server.

===Installing XBMC===To install XBMC we open up a terminalThat's all, su your centralized library and media files are ready to root and execute the following command:yum install xbmc xbmc-skin-*use.

This should install xbmcFor further information, its required dependencies, and all the skins currently available in the main package!once you're done, XBMC is located inside the GNOME Menu, and you can start adding files to please visit: http://www.robvanhamersveld.nl/2013/02/05/share-your -xbmc-12-0-library-on-a-synology-ds-or-other-nas/

[[UserCategory:Janjacobs|janjacobsApps]] 20:08, 12 December 2009 (UTC)