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markp1989

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Registered: 2008-10-05

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xbmc-send available for arch?

i use the command xbmx-send (part of program xbmc-eventclient-xbmc-send i think) in ubuntu to send commands to xbmx, but i cant find it in arch any where.

does any one know about this program, a quick google search doesnt seem to find anything.

any help?

thanks mark

Last edited by markp1989 (2010-04-07 23:13:06)

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bkuri

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Registered: 2010-01-08

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Re: xbmc-send available for arch?

I'd like to know this as well. Anyone?

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ctarwater

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Registered: 2009-02-05

Posts: 300

Re: xbmc-send available for arch?

I found a .deb of the file here so perhaps we/someone can use it to make a pkgbuild.

https://launchpad.net/~team-xbmc-svn/+a … hive-extra

I'll be at work for the next 12 hours or so though so I won't be able to look at it tonight.

wonslung

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Registered: 2010-12-28

Posts: 2

Re: xbmc-send available for arch?

I'm not sure how to create arch packages yet but it's fairly simple to get xbmc-send working on arch since it's python based.

This is what i did to do so:

check out the EVENTCLIENT source from the main xbmc source

svn co https://xbmc.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/xbmc/trunk/tools/EventClients/

install python 2.x via pacman (I'm pretty sure this will already be installed if you have xbmc installed but incase it isn't do the following)

pacman -S python2

copy the library files for the eventclient to the site-packages directory for python 2.x (in my case this is 2.7)  on other distros, these files are called xbmc-eventclients-common, I'm new to arch but i plan to eventually create this package once i read up on the process...anyways, the commands are as follows, assuming you checked out the source files from the above step)

cp -r EventClients/lib/python/ /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/xbmc/
cp -r EventClients/icons/ /usr/share/pixmaps/xbmc/
echo "ICON_PATH="/usr/share/pixmaps/xbmc/"" >> /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/xbmc/defs.py

then copy eventclient-send to /usr/local/bin/

cp EventClients/Clients/XBMC\ Send/xbmc-send.py /usr/local/bin/xbmc-send

and finally, edit the hashbang in xbmc-send from  /usr/bin/python to /usr/bin/python2