XBMC

Eden Guide
HenryFord 04/24/2012

HenryFord 2012 Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/

Contents
Contents .................................................................................................................................................. 1 Introduction............................................................................................................................................. 2 Prerequisites............................................................................................................................................ 3 XBMC ....................................................................................................................................................... 3 Download and Install XBMC ................................................................................................................ 3 Windows .......................................................................................................................................... 3 Mac OS............................................................................................................................................. 4 Linux ................................................................................................................................................ 4 Keyboard Binding ................................................................................................................................ 4 Setup the Sources................................................................................................................................ 6 Media-Manager ............................................................................................................................... 6 Movies ............................................................................................................................................. 7 TV-Shows ......................................................................................................................................... 8 Advanced Library Configuration ...................................................................................................... 8 Additional Settings .............................................................................................................................. 9 Library Settings ................................................................................................................................ 9 Customization (Skins!) ................................................................................................................... 10 Networking and external access ................................................................................................... 11 Setup additional Add-ons .................................................................................................................. 12 Repositories ................................................................................................................................... 12 Extras ................................................................................................................................................. 12 Advanced-Launcher ....................................................................................................................... 12 Logo-/Tunes-Skins ......................................................................................................................... 18 Configure Gamepads ..................................................................................................................... 19 Configure Remote Control............................................................................................................. 20 sabNZBd+............................................................................................................................................... 21 Sickbeard ............................................................................................................................................... 21 Installation and Setup........................................................................................................................ 21 General .......................................................................................................................................... 22 Search Options .............................................................................................................................. 23 Search Providers ............................................................................................................................ 23 Post Processing .............................................................................................................................. 23 1|Page XBMC Eden Guide Version 1.0 HenryFord

Notifications .................................................................................................................................. 25 Adding TV-Shows ............................................................................................................................... 25 Add New Show .............................................................................................................................. 25 Add Existing Show ......................................................................................................................... 26 Post-Processing ................................................................................................................................. 27 Couch Potato ......................................................................................................................................... 27 Setup.................................................................................................................................................. 28 General .......................................................................................................................................... 28 NZBs / Torrents.............................................................................................................................. 29 Providers........................................................................................................................................ 30 Quality ........................................................................................................................................... 30 Renaming....................................................................................................................................... 31 Extras ............................................................................................................................................. 32 Userscript ...................................................................................................................................... 32 Restart ........................................................................................................................................... 33 Add Movies ........................................................................................................................................ 33

Introduction
Dont worry - this is going to be short: This guide was created after a lot of people complained that getting into XBMC was kind of difficult for them. Thus I decided to create this guide to help them so I do not have to explain it over and over again. This guide includes instructions for a fully automatic PVR without actually owning a TV-Card. Also it heavily relies on some stuff that may be illegal in your country. Check your local copyright-laws whether they apply, if they do go ahead and decide for yourself if you want to continue. I take no responsibility. At this point I also want to thank the community around the XBMC and the projects which rose in the near context. Thanks go out to: Team XBMC For creating the XBMC in all its glory Team sabNZBd+ - For creating a good UseNet-download-application Ruudburger Creator of CouchPotato Midgetspy Creator of Sickbeard Angelscry Creator of the Advanced Launcher Add-On

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They put a lot of work into this and deserve to be appreciated. Take that into account and consider donating something, because all of the mentioned projects are completely community-driven opensource projects and they do not take a cent for the supplied software. Donations can be made to: XBMC Donation-Page Sickbeard Homepage with Donation-Button Couch Potato Homepage with Donation-Button sabNZBd+ Donation-Page

I am sure they will appreciate your support. Special Note: In order to make XBMC what it is today, the communities around www.themoviedb.org and www.thetvdb.com are also needed. You always can add information there, so go ahead and help out.

Prerequisites
In order to use everything I present to you in this guide youll need a UseNet-account. You can skip ahead if you do not want to download anything but just want to get started with XBMC. The Usenet basically resembles modern internet-forums in many ways. The key difference here is that the Usenet does not rely on a central server but rather on a distributed network. The Usenet can be, in large parts, accessed for free. But in order to retrieve binary content (i.e. files) from the UseNet you need to rely on a paid provider since there is no way to access this content without them. There are a lot of UseNet providers out there. I will recommend one, but you may choose any other provider you like, there is no limitation to what provider youre going to use. I recommend using astraweb since it is cheap and reliable, unfortunately I do not have tested any other provider, so that is the only recommendation I can put out. If you want to add a provider to the list, just let me know. A special offer for astraweb can be found here, and in my opinion the priceperformance ratio is totally worth it.

XBMC
Homepage: http://www.xbmc.org

Download and Install XBMC

You can get the XBMC here: http://xbmc.org/download/ Windows Click the Windows-Logo to get the newest stable Windows-Build for your machine. Download the Setup-File and install it. It will also install the needed libraries (DirectX, C++), so it will take a little bit to complete. 3|Page XBMC Eden Guide Version 1.0 HenryFord

Mac OS Download the current Mac-Version by clicking on the OSX-Logo (or if you run a PPC on the OSXPPC-Link beneath the logo) and save the DMG-File to your drive. Install the DMG by clicking on it. Drag XBMC to your application folder as usual. You can delete the DMG-File after installation. Linux The installation varies between the different distributions of Linux. You may want to take a look at the XBMC-Wiki; youll find instructions for the various distributions: http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Installing_XBMC_for_Linux After the installation launch your XBMC. You will be presented with the following screen:

You will notice that you cannot do anything right now, the Videos-Section is completely empty and so is everything else. We are going to change that in the next step.

Keyboard Binding
In order to control XBMC properly, you should know a few keyboard-bindings to get you started. This will help you navigating through the XBMC and using its functions. It is important to know that the XBMC uses different mappings for different views. So if you are playing a video in fullscreen the button-mapping might change. I will show you some global mappings which will be used if no other mapping is defined by the keyboard.xml-file. You can find all the proper commands which are used by default on this XBMC-Wiki-Page: http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Default_Controls I will list the common, global commands: Key O 4|Page Action, Description Displays CPU usage and video diagnostic information XBMC Eden Guide Version 1.0 HenryFord

P Space X F R Left-arrow Right-arrow Up-arrow Page Up Page Down Return Backspace Q W M S Esc I C Period Comma Tab Print Screen Minus (-) Plus (+) Zero (0) One (1) Two (2) Three (3) Four (4) Five (5) Six (6) Seven (7) Eight (8) Nine (9) End Z

Play Pause Stop Fast Forward Rewind Left Right Up Page Up Page Down Select Parent Directory (Step back) Current Queue Mark file as Watched Activate OSD Player Controls (while playing media) Activate Shutdown Menu Home menu Media Info Context Menu Skip Next Skip Previous Toggles fullscreen modes (either visualization or video playback) Screenshot Volume Down Volume Up Number0 Number 1 Number 2 Number 3 Number 4 Number 5 Number 6 Number 7 Number 8 Number 9 Shutdown XBMC Zoom

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Setup the Sources

Sources - this is where XBMC looks for your media-files. The Sources will determine the content of your library, they are necessary in order for XBMC to index your Music-/Video-Files into the proper libraries. Be aware that you always should name your video- and music-sources according to XBMCs set (more on this beneath). This will make sure that you have the best possible experience with the XBMC. Lets get started. Media-Manager Before we are adding your files to your XBMC-Sources you should make sure that the files are named properly. Ideally you have your movie-files all in one folder. It does not matter if there are subfolders and/or single files in this directory. The best way however is to use subfolders for each movie you have. The folder should then be named like the following Layout: Movie Name (Release-Year). The part Release Year is technically not necessary but it will make sure that XBMC scrapes the right movie and you have the right movie in your library. If you currently have not sorted your moviedirectory, you can do this with the help of some additional tools which are available. Some free tools: Multiplatform - UniversalMC - http://sourceforge.net/projects/universalmc/ - Media Reader - http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?t=49370 - Mythical Librarian - http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=MythicalLibrarian (for Myth TV-Recordings) Windows - XBNE - http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?t=59800 - Media Companion - http://mediacompanion.codeplex.com/ - XMM2 - http://www.plyoung.com/projects/xmm2/ - Ember Media Manager - http://sourceforge.net/projects/emm-r/ Mac OS X - ViMediaManager - http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?p=886768 Linux - N/A These tools will generate usable NFO-Files for the XBMC. NFO-Files are little text-files in which all information about the movie is stored in a XML-Layout. If XBMC finds a NFO-File inside a subfolder, it will use the information from this NFO rather than downloading the information from the internet. For some more information on NFO-Files head down, youll find a section dedicated to them. A neat function of the XBMC provides the possibility to play two video-files as if they are merged to one file. This is helpful for movies which contain multiple CDs. If you have the movie The Matrix for example split into two files, you should name those files like The Matrix.CD1.FileExtension and The Matrix.CD2.FileExtension (this will be done by the media managers mentioned above as well). When scraping this movie to the library, XBMC will know that this is supposed to be one movie and will index the both files only as one movie in your library. If you then play this movie via the library in your XBMC both files will be played the CD2 after CD1 ends obviously. You wont even notice the cut between those (unless the files have an overlay of course) two.

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Movies To start adding a source for movies hit the Videos button in the Home-menu. You will find a Button Add Videos hit it in order to bring up the Source-Menu. You will find a screenshot below, how that should look like:

Hit the Browse-Button and locate your movie-location. Click OK and move to the Content-Screen. It will look like this:

If you want to add your movies right now (you want to ;-)) hit the selection Run automated scan. If you use subfolders in your main movie-folder you should set Movies are in separate folders that match the movie title and Scan recursively too. Hit Ok XBMC will now search for your stored 7|Page XBMC Eden Guide Version 1.0 HenryFord

movies with the Movie-Scraper and adds the contents to your library. This will take a while, depending on the size of your collection. TV-Shows With Sickbeard Before adding TV-Shows to XBMC you should complete the Sickbeard-Tutorial first. Click here to read it now. Come back when Sickbeard is fully configured. Open up Sickbeard in your Browser and click on the button Manage. A list of all your TV-Shows should be presented to you click on the empty field beneath Rename. This should mark all the Rename-Fields of the shows. Now click on submit below. Use it in order to change your entire TV-Show-Collection to the right naming convention for XBMC. Also It will help you to actually sort your Collection and to make it more accessible. Without Sickbeard If you do not want to use Sickbeard, you should pick a media manager which is also capable of renaming your TV-shows to proper names. Another solution is SortTV which is multi-platform and programmed by cliffe. You can find the thread here. Setup Sources With TV-Shows you also have the option to use locally stored NFO-Files for XBMC. In this case XBMC will also use the provided information in the NFO-Files to check for your TV Shows. This will make sure that you do not have problems with the scanning. Check the option in the sickbeard-config if you want the Files to be created. Be aware that you should apply the naming-convention TV-ShowName (Starting-Year) to the subfolders holding your TV-Shows. This will make sure that you do not get the wrong information. Now head back to the XBMC and hit the Add Source-Button. Select your TV-Show-Directory and click OK. In the Content-Screen you should then select TV Shows. Mark the option Run automated scan if you want to. XBMC will now scrape all your Shows to your library. Advanced Library Configuration Movie Sets In XBMC Eden you have the possibility to easily group movies into sets. You may now the problem that you have a collection of movies from the same set, but they dont sort like you wanted. An example would be the Die Hard-series, because it includes the following four movies: 1. 2. 3. 4. Die Hard Die Hard 2 Die Hard with Vengeance Live Free or Die Hard

Now the fourth movie has a leading L while the other movies all start with D. This causes XBMC to separate those movies from another. You can now activate movie set grouping in the settings menu. This will cause XBMC to display all those movies as one title in the library, opening it will list every movie of the set. Note that this will only work if you selected the The MovieDB scraper for 8|Page XBMC Eden Guide Version 1.0 HenryFord

your movie source. For every other scraper you will need to use NFO-Files in order to sort the movies into sets. For the example above, the line that should be added to the nfo-files of the movies which belong to the set:
<set>Die Hard Collection</set>

Re-scrape the movies and they should display as one movie set in your library. NFO-Files can influence many aspects of XBMCs library. For more information visit the XBMC-Wiki: http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title...ining_XML_data Automatic cleaning of the library If you delete a lot of movies/TV Shows after you have watched them, you will notice that the XBMC will not clean these files if you launch the Library-Update. You can erase those movies only if you pick the Clean Library-Function in the settings-menu. Another solution however would be to put a file advancedsettings.xml into your XBMC-Userdata-Folder. For Windows just hit Windows-Key + R and type %AppData%/XBMC/userdata. Create a new text-file with the following content inside this directory:
<advancedsettings> <videolibrary> <cleanonupdate>true</cleanonupdate> </videolibrary> </advancedsettings>

Rename the file to advancedsettings.xml and restart your XBMC. Your XBMC will now clean your video-library every time it updates it.

Warning:
You should be aware that cleaning your library may result in unexpected behavior. If your mediasources for example are located on an External Drive and you launch the cleaning while the drive is disconnected, your whole library will be erased! If the media somehow isnt available, you are going to lose everything stored in the library. You can do a lot more with the advancedsettings.xml for more information check the XBMC-Wiki: http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Advancedsettings.xml

Additional Settings
Library Settings Navigate back to the Home-Window (hit Backspace to get back) and open up the Settings-Menu. Open the Video-Tab and click on the Library-Tab. I recommend using Automated Scan on Startup, this way you make sure that every new file you add will be there after you restart your XBMC. I will explain later how you can start the scan by yourself. Remember the Clean LibraryButton if you delete files out of the folders you specified under your Sources it still will show up in the library of XBMC, even after you scanned for new content. To remove dead entries hit the button Clean Library, it will remove them. Be aware: If you added a removable device as a source and you hit the Clean Library-Button while the device is disconnected you will lose your library. 9|Page XBMC Eden Guide Version 1.0 HenryFord

Customization (Skins!) You can modify the behavior and appearance of your skin by applying extended settings. Each skin has specific settings; you have to choose what you like. Generally you can disable/enable specific Home-Menu-Buttons and more. Play a little bit with the settings if you are not sure and see what you like. You should in any case activate the home-screen menus TV Shows and Movies (accordingly to your sources) because this are the library-sections which you want to use later. Every skin has also own views for the different media-sections (TV Shows, Movies, Music) between which you can choose in order to customize everything for your needs. This is also a little bit of a Trial & Error-Game switch between the different views in order to find out what you like most. In order to apply a new view for a specific section, navigate back to the home-menu and click on the Movie-Tab for example. Now in the movie section click the Right-Arrow-Key on your keyboard. This will open up the side-menu, where you can choose the view. In this example you see the view Thumbnail selected:

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You can apply complete new skins to your XBMC which will change the look and feel of XBMC entirely. I recommend the Night-Skin, although you might prefer something else. To install a new skin, open up the Appearance-Settings. You will find an option Skin click here to open the SkinSelector. Click on the More-Button at the bottom of the selector. Choose the skin you want to try and it will download. After the download completes you will be asked to switch to the skin choose what you like.

Networking and external access XBMC has advanced features available. Several external applications can make use of these features in order to communicate with the XBMC. They also have the possibility to actually control the XBMC. These advanced features require you to enable the http-access of the XBMC because it is not enabled 11 | P a g e XBMC Eden Guide Version 1.0 HenryFord

by default. This can be done under Settings -> Network. You also have the possibility to share your libraries via UPnP. This again gives you the opportunity to use DLNA-certified devices with your XBMC this way you can share and stream the contents of your library. Be advised though: XBMC will share nothing which is not indexed in your library. A list of compatible software/hardware can be found here (it may be incomplete): http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=UPnP_Sharing In order to use the Webserver of XBMC properly I advise to use a predefined IP instead of obtaining one via DHCP. This way youll always know where your XBMC is located. This also comes in handy when using Sickbeard, Couch Potato and sabNZBd+. This however is not required you always can access the XBMC, Sickbeard, Couch Potato and sabNZBd+ via localhost (if you do not change the default settings that is). After enabling web access you can secure your XBMC with a username and a password. Just enter the values in the boxes below the option. By default XBMC restricts access from the network to your machine. Every request coming from another machine than the XBMCs machine will be rejected. You can lift this restriction by enabling the Allow programs on other systems to control-Option in the network-settings.

Setup additional Add-ons

You can expand your XBMC-Experience by installing Add-Ons/Plugins. Since XBMC Dharma we have a repository installed from which we can choose additional Add-ons/Plugins. You can find this subsection on the home-screen. Hit the Add-On-Section in XBMC and choose Get Add-ons browse and install what you like. Repositories You have the option to install extended repositories which will enhance the available Add-Ons for your experience. To find repositories just check this site in the XBMC-Wiki: http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Unofficial_Add-on_Repositories Download the Zip-File, open up the Settings -> Add-Ons-Menu and choose the option Install from Zip-File. From the dialog-window pick the downloaded zip-file. After the installation you can choose Add-Ons from this repository. If you do not see any Add-Ons after you added the Repository, navigate to the Repository (Add-Ons -> Get Add-ons); bring up the context-menu and hit Refresh Repository in order to load available entries to the database.

Extras
Advanced-Launcher The Advanced Launcher is an add-on which was developed by XBMC-Community-Member Angelscry. This Add-On enables you to launch installed programs on your computer from inside the XBMC. Through this Add-On you practically can build a library from programs/games which are installed on your machine. The Add-On also makes use of some advanced features for emulator-applications. You can add specific Command-Line options in order to browse and launch your games which are running through an emulator. This again gives you the opportunity to index your Nintendo 64 games for instance which are present as ROM-Files on your system and launch them with the proper emulator. 12 | P a g e XBMC Eden Guide Version 1.0 HenryFord

The Add-On also features scraping mechanisms. These will scrape the information about your games like XBMC does with TV Shows and Movies. In order to enable the Add-On I recommend adding the repository to your XBMC. Once the repository is added, Advanced Launcher will update itself if you install it. This way you stay on top of current developments. In order to install the Repository go to your settings-menu and open up Add-Ons. You should see a line Install from zip-file. Choose this option and in the dialog that appears navigate to the file you downloaded from this location: http://code.google.com/p/xbmc-advancedlauncher/downloads/detail?name=repository.angelscry.xbmc-plugins.1.2.0.zip Afterwards click on the Button Get More and choose the newly installed repository. Under Program Add-Ons you should find an entry Advanced Launcher click it in order to install it. If you do not see any entries in this repository, navigate back and open up the context menu while highlighting the right repository (It should be Angelscry Add-On Repository) and choose the option Force Refresh now go back inside the repository, you should see everything now. After the installation completes head to the next section. Hint For the Windows-Version of XBMC you should disable the fullscreen for Advanced Launcher to work properly. Head to Settings -> System in your XBMC and click on the menu Video Output. You will see a line Use a fullscreen window rather than true fullscreen set this option active. Configuration You have some options available for Advanced Launcher which will help you with your setup. Click on the Add-On again in order to bring up the Add-On-Page. You will find an option Configure inside it. After you clicked this option you will be presented with the options-screen of the Advanced Launcher. Configure it to your likes (I heavily borrowed from the tutorial at http://www.gwenael.org/forum/viewtopic.php?id=3 ): General This menu contains general configuration options for Advanced Launcher. Launchers Thumbs Default Path Define the default folder in which your thumbs are being stored (more in the section Thumbnail/Fanart/Rom-Folders below). If not defined Advanced Launcher will ask for the folder-path whenever you create a new launcher. Launchers Fanart Default Path Define the default folder in which your fanarts are being stored (more in the section Thumbnail/Fanart/Rom-Folders below). If not defined Advanced Launcher will ask for the folder-path whenever you create a new launcher. Action on Playing Media Define an action that will be executed if you are currently playing media when you launch an application. The available options are: stop (stop the current playback when launching an 13 | P a g e XBMC Eden Guide Version 1.0 HenryFord

application), put into pause (pause current playback), or let to play (just let the current playback continue). Recursive Scan Activate or deactivate the capability or Advanced Launcher to recursively scan items in subfolders. Data & Infos This menu contains configuration options for the data scrapers. Scraper Source Define the scraper-source. The data-scraper will look here in order to receive information about your stored media-files. Results may differ depending on the kind of games you scrape. Import during scan Select which method will be used to import the data (when you run a scan for new items): None (nothing will be imported), Semi-automatic (you will be asked to select from a list of results) and Automatic (will automatically select the first matching result). Ignore BIOS Files This option is dedicated for MAME games. When activated, Advanced Launcher will automatically ignore any detected BIOS files during folders scan. Clean Items Titles Activate or deactivate the clean title option. For example, the title Alien Invaders (1983)(UA Ltd.)*aka Alien aka Les Envahisseurs Etrangers+ will be displayed as Alien Invaders. Any text after brackets will be ignored. Titles formatting When activated any articles at the beginning of a title (like "The", "An" or "A") will be placed at the end of the title. Covers & Thumbs This menu contains configuration options for the thumb-image-scraper. Scraper Source Define the scraper-source. The data-scraper will look here in order to receive information about your stored media-files. Results may differ depending on the kind of games you scrape. Thumbs Region Select the geographic region (America, Japan or Europe) for the box-art. If this is not activated the first found thumbnail will be used. Images Size Select the resolution (size) of the images which will be downloaded while scraping. Import during scan Select which method will be used to import the data (when you run a scan for new items): None

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(nothing will be imported), Semi-automatic (you will be asked to select from a list of results) and Automatic (will automatically select the first matching result). Overwrite Existing Files If this option is selected, existing thumbnail images will be overwritten by new scraped ones. Screen & Fanarts This menu contains configuration options for the fanart-image-scraper. Scraper Source Define the scraper-source. The data-scraper will look here in order to receive information about your stored media-files. Results may differ depending on the kind of games you scrape Images Size Select the resolution (size) of the images which will be downloaded while scraping. Import during scan Select which method will be used to import the fanarts (when you run a scan for new items): None (nothing will be imported), Semi-automatic (you will be asked to select from a list of results) and Automatic (will automatically select the first matching result). Overwrite Existing Files If this option is selected, existing fanart images will be overwritten by new scraped ones. Debug Menu This menu contains configuration options for debugging Advanced Launcher. It could be used by advanced users during the built-up of their XBMC/Advanced Launcher/Scripts/Executable Application system. Show Batch command windows This option show/hide the window display of started .BAT scripts by advanced launcher on windows operating system. Sources The Advanced Launcher-Add-On uses your program-sources. In order to add a source to this specific type you have to do the following: Go back to your home-screen and select the programs item (assuming you are using the Confluence-Skin which is default) - do not open the menu-item! and click on the arrow next to the title Programs. A little menu should extend select Files in this menu. In the next screen add a source via the Add Source-Button. Now technically it does not matter what you add as a source. In order to use your whole hard-drive just add the whole harddrive to the sources, you wont have any side-effects (except you will have to navigate more while creating new launchers). Thumbnail/Fanart/Rom-Folders I recommend using separate standard-folders. Create a folder on your hard-drive for the Advanced Launcher-Thumbnails and Fanarts. Advanced Launcher can download those images automatically while scraping for new games but more on that later. The Thumbnails represent the Box-Arts of the several games (like the poster in the movie-section) and the Fanarts are exactly the same as in the 15 | P a g e XBMC Eden Guide Version 1.0 HenryFord

video-library. Several Skins have own views defined for Advanced Launcher, you can use them in order to make use of the advanced features like Fanarts. It is also recommended that you keep the ROM-Files in a folder, where you have subfolders for the different gaming systems. So you would have a Folder ROM-Files with the subfolders N64 and PS2 for instance this way you can handle the setup in a quicker, easier way. If you want to add Windows-Games to your Advanced Launcher I also recommend using a subfolder inside the ROM-Folder for shortcuts. Place a shortcut (an .lnk-file note it is an l as in low) to the exe-file of the games you want to add inside this folder. Adding a Launcher When you run Advanced Launcher for the first time (click on the programs item in the home-menu in order to bring it up) it will ask you to add a launcher. You will be presented with two different choices: Standalone and File launcher. For explanation: The Standalone simply runs an executable which sits on your hard-drive while the File launcher is used to start an application with a special file passed to it. So for example you will run an emulator with a ROM-File passed to it, so that the emulator will then begin to run the ROM you passed to it. In order to use this feature with an application, this application has to understand command-line arguments. The general configuration of those two launchers: Standalone Launcher 1. Select the Standalone (normal PC executable) option 2. Browse and select the executable file of the application you want to start 3. In the next window you can pass command-line arguments. If the application you want to run does not need any arguments or does not support them you can leave this field blank. Otherwise just fill in the argument you have to pass. 4. This title will be used when viewing the application in Advanced Launcher. 5. Choose the game platform. This indicates the platform of your game-system for the image/data-scrapers. If you do not add a game but an application, this option does not matter. If you did not configure Advanced Launcher to use default fanart- and thumbnail-folders you have to do these steps too, otherwise youre through at this point: 6. Select the thumbnail path. This is the folder where the thumbnail image of the launcher will be downloaded to. If there is already an image (jpeg, gif, png or bmp format) with the same name as the executable file (can include the _thumb suffix),, this image will be automatically used for the launcher. 7. Select the fanart path. This is the folder where the fanart image of the launcher will be downloaded to. If there is already an image (jpeg, gif, png or bmp format) with the same name as the executable (can include the _fanart suffix), this image will be automatically used for the launcher. File launcher (Youll find more specific explanations on the items below indicated with a *) 1. Select the File launcher (e.g. game emulator) option. 16 | P a g e XBMC Eden Guide Version 1.0 HenryFord

2. Browse and select the executable file of the application you want to use (the emulators exe-file for instance)*. 3. Enter the arguments you want to use with the application**. To fill these arguments you have the possibility to use 5 variables: %rom% : this tag will be replaced by the complete path of the file. %romfile% : this tag will be replaced by the filename (name + extension). %romname% : this tag will be replaced by the name of a file (name without extension). %appath% : this tag will be replaced by the folder path of started executable file. %rompath%: this tag will be replaced by the folder path of launched files. 4. Select the folder containing the file which will be launched with the application you choose (the folder of your ROM-Files for instance well call this folder ROM-Folder from this point onwards) 5. Indicate the files extensions that will be listed by the launcher. The extension must be separated using the | character***. 6. Indicate the title of the launcher. The Launcher will be displayed using this defined title. 7. Choose a platform. The selected option will correspond to the platform system of the started application or emulated system. This option will be used by the scrapers to identify the games in the ROM-Folder****. 8. Select the thumbnails path. This folder contains all the thumbnails of the items inside the ROM-Folder not of launcher itself! If there is already an image (jpeg, gif, png or bmp format) with the same name as an item in the folder you defined (including the _thumb suffix) this image will be automatically used with that item. 9. Select the fanarts path. This folder contains all the fanarts of the items inside the ROMFolder not of launcher itself If there is already an image (jpeg, gif, png or bmp format) with the same name as an item in the folder you defined (including the _thumb suffix) this image will be automatically used with that item. *= If you want to add Windows-Games just choose any application, it does not matter what you select, the launcher will always launch the shortcut which is placed in the directory. **= The arguments are defined by your application. If you use an emulator for instance, there is the highly possible chance that it can use command-line-arguments to pass a certain file. So normally you could just open a command-line window in Windows and type something like Path\to\emulator.exe s Path\to\ROM-File.rom to launch a desired ROM-file inside the emulator. Advanced Launcher makes use of those command-line arguments. So in this case it would be the argument -s followed by the path to the actual ROM-File which is needed by the emulator to launch directly to load a ROM. You then should type the following into the argument-textbox: -s %romfile% If you do not know what command-line arguments you can use with what application you should look on the page of the emulator. It most likely will explain the command-line usage somewhere in the manual or the wiki. ***= For Windows-Games type lnk (l as in low) in order to start the right applications. Otherwise choose the file-extension of the ROM-Files. If you have more than one file-extension per file-type you can add multiple extension, separated with the |-character. 17 | P a g e XBMC Eden Guide Version 1.0 HenryFord

****= For Windows-Games choose IBM PC Compatible You will notice that after adding a File launcher you have no items in it, regardless of the contents of the ROM-Folder. This is because Advanced Launcher needs to be instructed to add the items to the launcher. Highlight the specific launcher in Advanced Launcher and open up the Context-Menu (c on your keyboard) pick the item Add Items from the list. In the next step you will be asked how the items in that folder should be scraped. In automatic-mode Advanced Launcher will scrape all items in the folder automatically using the scrapers you defined in the configuration. Advanced Launcher will use the best matching title and does the rest alone (including the import of Thumbnails and Fanarts). If you pick the manual-mode Advanced Launcher will prompt you for an item. Specify an item you want to add and Advanced Launcher will scrape it. You could also choose an item which is not located in the ROM-Folder but somewhere else. This can take a while of course depending on the contents of your ROM-Folder. After it finishes importing, the File launcher will open itself and youll see all the scraped items. Advanced Look at this post for more features and a take on how to use them: http://www.gwenael.org/forum/viewtopic.php?id=3 In order to make full use of the Advanced Launcher it is probable that you want an item for it on the home-screen so you do not have to go to Programs -> Add-Ons every time. Most skins allow you to add items to the home-screen which are present in you Favorites-File. To add Advanced Launcher itself to your list of favorites navigate to Programs -> Add-Ons and highlight Advanced Launcher, then bring up your context-menu and pick the item Add to favorites. You also have the possibility to add the specific launchers to your favorites. Just open Advanced Launcher, highlight the specific launcher and open up the context-menu. Pick here Add to favorites as well. Now get back to your settings-menu and choose the option Skin from the list. Open up the section for Custom Home you can now pick individual home-screen items to display. Logo-/Tunes-Skins There are several skins with advanced features which can be applied to your TV-Library. Your skin may support either TV-Show-Logos or TV-Show-Tunes. A logo should be self explanatory it is a titleimage for the specified show. The Tunes will play as soon as you navigate to one of your show (e.g. If you have a show called 30 Rock and a proper tunes-file in the folder of 30 Rock, the tune will play as soon as you hit the 30 Rock-entry in the library. For both of those features most supported skins have built-in support and scripts in order to get the necessary stuff. Search for an option Run logo script and/or Run tunes script which will then download the necessary files in order to view the advanced features. You may have to apply these features in additional settings of your skin. Bear in mind that both features generally require some hacking on the skin-developers end. If you have any problems with the scripts, please report them to the maker of these scripts. XBMC by default does not have any support for those features built in.

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Configure Gamepads This is an explanation of the various Keymap-Files. The Keymap-Files control in which way your Gamepad will interact with the XBMC if it is connected. You can map any button to a lot of actions in XBMC. This way you are able to use your XBMC in a more comfortable way. This guide shows the steps for an Xbox-360-Controller but can be applied to every Gamepad which is recognized and the proper driver is installed... Important If your controller does not work or/and you are using XBCD for your controller, you have to check the correct button-assignments which are used by SDL. Start your XBMC and open up the settings. Go into the system-settings and click on Debug. Enable the Debug-Logging. Now press every key on your gamepad and remember in which order you pressed them (better yet write it down). Quit XBMC and hit Windows-Key + R on your keyboard. In the little text-box that appears write %APPDATA%\XBMC\ and hit Enter. Open up the file xbmc.log with a text-editor. You then should see something like the following: NOTICE: Enabled Joystick: XBOX 360 For Windows (Controller) NOTICE: Details: Total Axis: 5 Total Hats: 1 Total Buttons: 10 And the buttons which have been pressed are below. Now it is important that you notice the correct Joystick-Name, because we will need it later. Also write down the button-assignment which is used by XBMC (compare your notes in which order you pressed them and you should be able to match them). For the Xbox-360-Controllers (Wired and Wireless) the Button-Layout is the following: Button id 1 = A Button id 2 = B Button id 3 = X Button id 4 = Y Button id 5 = Left Shoulder Button Button id 6 = Right Shoulder Button Button id 7 = back Button id 8 = start Button id 9 = left stick button Button id 10 = right stick button axis limit="1" id="2" Up on left stick axis limit="+1" id="2" Down on left stick axis limit="1" id="3" Left on left stick axis limit="+1" id="3" Right on left stick axis limit="1" id="1" Left Trigger axis limit="+1" id="1" Right Trigger axis limit="1" id="4" Up on right stick axis limit="+1" id="4" Down on right stick axis limit="1" id="5" Left on right stick 19 | P a g e XBMC Eden Guide Version 1.0 HenryFord

axis limit="+1" id="5" Right on right stick hat id="1" position="up" Up on DPAD hat id="1" position="right" Right on DPAD hat id="1" position="down" Down on DPAD hat id="1" position="left" Left on DPAD Simple steps to create your own keymap.xml: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Go to your XBMC-Folder and open the subfolder system\keymaps Copy the Xbox-Joystick-XML-File Hit Windows-Key + R and type %APPDATA%\XBMC\userdata\keymaps Paste the copy of the XML-file into this folder Open the XML-File with a file-editor Replace everything after the tag <joystick name= and before the > with the name of the controller you wrote down before. 7. Create/Change the nodes for your needs. Check the Wiki for Instructions (more below). 8. Done, you should be up and running! (Note: You must restart the XBMC in order to apply the changes you made) Good to know Here is a list of actions you can use: http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Keymap.xml#Actions The full list of actions is here: http://xbmc.svn.sourceforge.net/view...pp?view=markup Look at the part below "static const ActionMapping actions[] =" . On the left side you find the name to use for the action, on the right side the action which is executed. You can also run XBMC's internal commands, just put "XBMC." before function (XBMC.Function). A list of commands is here: http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=List_of_Built_In_Functions And a list of available windows (for the OpenWindow-Function): http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Window_IDs Example: http://pastebin.com/jCd9czvg Configure Remote Control You can also use remote controls in order to control the XBMC. Since this would blow up the guide, Ill link to the XBMC-Wiki pages here. You can get information on how to use the different remotes over there. http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Remote_controls http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Using_a_remote_control_with_XBMC http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Remote_control_reviews 20 | P a g e XBMC Eden Guide Version 1.0 HenryFord

sabNZBd+
Homepage: http://sabNZBd.org/ Since the documentation around SAB is very well done and helpful, I wont do anything on sabNZBd+ besides pointing to the right direction. Download the latest build at: http://sabNZBd.org/ After the download check the Setup Walkthrough it will help you get things up and running: http://wiki.sabNZBd.org/quick-setup This may be interesting in the context as you may want to use the PP-Script of Sickbeard (more on that later): http://wiki.sabNZBd.org/configure-categories http://wiki.sabNZBd.org/configure-directories

Sickbeard
Homepage: www.sickbeard.com

Installation and Setup

Sickbeard is fairly easy to handle. Download the latest build from the Sickbeard-Homepage: www.sickbeard.com Just unzip it and run sickbeard.exe (or python sickbead.py if you want to run from source) You can now access your Sickbeard via the Web-Interface, which should be reachable under http://localhost:8081 in your Web browser. Please note that the first time you want to show Sickbeard's-Page it runs a little bit. Just stay calm eventually the site will pop up. After you reached the Web-Interface you want to configure everything before you put in your already existent TV-Shows. Note that everything may look a bit different on your end.

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General

Open the general configuration by clicking the Config-Button and then on General below. Those options should be self explanatory. Save your changes and go on to the site Search Options (Config -> Search Options).

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Search Options

You should definitely use the Download Propers option. This will cause Sickbeard to watch out if a downloaded episode has been nuked. Nuked means that the file was reported for being bad, for example missing frames, out-of-sync, etc. You should also activate the Search NZBs, since we want to use Sickbeard in condone with sabNZBd. In the field NZB Method select sabNZBd. New field will show up enter the appropriate settings for your local sabNZBd installation. Save your settings and then go on to Search Providers. Search Providers That site should be self explanatory. A few of the providers require you to register and a few of those also require you to pay money for downloading nzb-files. I would recommend using Sickbeard Index and Newzbin (Newzbin is generic and applies to all servers with the software Newzbin installed, for example nzb.su). Save your setting and go on the Post Processing (Config -> Post Processing). Post Processing Since we will run sabNZBd+ locally, you do not need to define the TV Download Dir. Otherwise the settings should be pretty self explanatory.

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Notifications This is the last section to be configured. You can choose between different services which will receive notifications from Sickbeard once Sickbeard snatches an episode or finishes a download. Again: Settings should be self-explanatory.

Adding TV-Shows
You have two different options available: New Show and Existing Show. If you want to download a TV-Show you do not own at this time, click on the button Add New Show and head to the section below. If you want to add one or more TV-Shows you already have saved on your disk click on the button Add Existing Shows and head to the section Existing Shows further below. Add New Show There are three steps in order to add a new Show to your database: 1. Find TV-Show on TVDB 2. Pick the folder in which the Show will be stored 3. Customization The third step however is optional you can just apply the settings which are stored in your configuration. First type in the name of the Show you want to add. Sickbeard will the look in the TVDB for a corresponding title and will present you with the results.

Hit the results which suit your Show and click the Next-Button. As you do not have a parent-folder specified right now, click the New-Button in the next step and choose the folder in which the Show should be stored.

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In the next step choose your likings and click on Add Show at the bottom of the page. Add Existing Show First click on the button Manage Directories and add the Root-Folder of your existent TV-Shows. You can add more folders if you like (if you for example have a folder Shows and Shows2, you could add them both). You should notice that Sickbeard starts to load and indexes the new folders which are subfolders of your Shows-Folder(s). Now click on the button Customize Options and set everything accordingly and hit the button Submit. By default, Sickbeard now tries to identify the shows in the directory you set up and will add them automatically. If you want to add the shows by yourself and review the show Sickbeard finds, you can check the Box Prompt me to set settings for each show. You will now be presented with the Step 1-screen of the Add-Show-Dialog. It will show you the search results for the Show lookups based on your Show-Directory.

Click on the right Show and hit the button Add Show below. This will continue until every folder is scanned and checked. If you do not want to add a specific show, just hit the button Skip Show and if you want to customize your choices hit Next and Next again to get to Step 3. Here you can configure special settings for the single show. 26 | P a g e XBMC Eden Guide Version 1.0 HenryFord

After you added the Shows to Sickbeard you have to wait a little bit Sickbeard is now gathering all the required information and then will start looking up the series (if you specified it) in the NZBDatabases. Otherwise Sickbeard is now completely ready for usage just hit the button Coming Episodes in Sickbeard to see what Sickbeard will download next and what episodes already were missed.

Post-Processing
At this point Sickbeard is configured to look for new releases. But how will Sickbeard know if a download finished? Post-Processing is the key-word. Post-Processing is the ability of Sickbeard to automatically rename your downloads and sort them into the proper folders. Without this you will need to manually copy them over and then re-scan the show directory to find the new episodes. You can configure sabNZBd+ to launch a Post-Processing-Script for Sickbeard. Again I will copy the content of the Sickbeard-page regarding this process (http://code.google.com/p/sickbeard/wiki/PostProcessing): To set up post processing, first copy the contents of the autoProcessTV directory from your Sickbeard installation to your sabNZBd+ scripts folder (or set your scripts folder to the location of the autoProcessTV directory). Rename autoProcessTV.cfg.sample to simply autoProcessTV.cfg and open it in a text editor. Change the host, port, username and password values to the appropriate settings for your Sickbeard installation. Then set the appropriate script as your post processing script inside sabNZBd+/HellaNZB: 1. sabToSickbeard.py - Linux/OSX sabNZBd+ 2. sabToSickbeard.exe - Windows sabNZBd+ 3. hellaToSickbeard.py - HellaNZB Note: If your sabNZBd+ is running on a different PC than your Sickbeard you may need to enter your TV download dir into your Sickbeard settings so that Sickbeard knows how to find the sabNZBd+ downloads. Note 2: You must disable sorting inside sabNZBd+ to use Sickbeards post processing, all episodes should be being post-processed from a temporary download folder.

Couch Potato
Homepage: http://couchpotatoapp.com/ Download the current build of Couch Potato on the homepage above. For Windows click on the Windows-Button and download the zip-file. Extract it and run the file Couch Potato.exe thats it, Couch Potato is running and should open your default browser with CP already launched. Click on Options-Button in the top-bar (it is the little Gear-Icon) to setup your Couch Potato.

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Setup
General In the Settings-Window click on the button General above to be presented with the following screen:

Enter the information accordingly: 1. Host: This is under which IP Couch Potato should be reachable (of course this should correspond to the IP of your machine. 2. Port: This is the Port which will be used by Couch Potato. 3. Username/Password: These are required if you want to lock the access to Couch Potato. If you dont want to, just leave these fields blank. 4. Launch Browser: If checked, Couch Potato will open up the default browser after it is started. 5. Use Updater: Couch Potato will check for new releases and will update itself (the update has to be accepted before) 6. Search every: The interval in which CP will check for new movie-releases. 7. Ignore Words: These words are being ignored while searching for new releases. 8. Preferred words: CP will look for these words with priority while searching for new releases. 9. Required Words: These words have to come up while searching for new releases, otherwise CP wont download. After you put in these information hit Save below and click the button NZBs / Torrents.

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NZBs / Torrents You will see the following screen:

NZBs 1. Enable: If checked CP will look for new releases in the NZB-Indexes specified 2. Retention: The File-Retention which is supported by your NZB-Provider (check your provider for information) 3. Download to: What kind of Usenet-Downloader are you running? 4. Host: Where is your Usenet-Downloader located (in case of sabNZBd+: Enter the hostaddress of the sabNZBd+-installation) 5. Apikey: Can be found in the general configuration in sabNZBd+. You need this in order to allow 3rd-Party-Programs access to you installation. 6. Username/Password: The data which is required in order to access your sabNZBd+installation. 7. Category: Which category should be used for the downloads Torrents 1. Enable: If checked CP will look for new releases in the Torrent-Indexes specified 2. Download to: The destination where the torrent-files should be downloaded to. 29 | P a g e XBMC Eden Guide Version 1.0 HenryFord

3. Wait: The time CP will wait before looking for a release on the torrent-indexes. If the movie is found before in the nzb-indexes, CP wont download any torrent-files (If NZBs are enabled). Hit Save and click on the button Providers. Providers You will see the following screen:

Activate the proper index, this depends on the indexes you use for some you need a premium (= paid) account to use them. Set the settings, you will get the necessary data from the specific indexes. Hit Save once more and click on the button Quality. Quality You will see the following screen:

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This is the page were you define the qualities which you want to download. You can choose from the default Qualities on the right side there are pretty much standard-types, you should be able to figure out what quality download what file. On the left handed sided you can define your own qualities. The above example will look for new releases in the qualities BR-Rip (= Blu-ray-Rip), 720p and 1080p but it will only finish when it has found a 1080p-version of the release. So it will download a 720p-version if it finds one, but will replace it as soon as it finds the 1080pversion of the release. After you defined the qualities you are able to choose from them while adding a new movie to your database. After youre done, click Save below and continue with Renaming. Renaming You will see this:

1. Enable: If this is checked, Couch Potato will rename and move the downloaded movie-files 2. Download Folder: This is where sabNZBd+ downloads the movies to 3. Movie destination: This is the place where the files should be moved to 4. Folder naming: Define a pattern for the new folder name after file-moving 5. File naming: Define a pattern for the new file name after file-moving 6. Name Separator: This will be placed between the words of the resulted name. 7. Cleanup: If checked CP will remove everything in the download-folder which does not belong to the downloaded movie. Click Save and hit the button Extras above.

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Extras You will see the following:

In this section you can define additional settings. For example you can instruct CP to inform your XBMC about new downloads and update your library after a downloaded finished successful. You also can enable trailer-download and various sub-settings, see for yourself what settings you want to apply. Hit Save and click on the button Userscript if you use either Google Chrome (or a ChromiumDerivate) or Mozilla Firefox for browsing. Otherwise click on About. Userscript You will see this screen:

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You can install an extension which will help you add movie to your database easily. Follow the onscreen instructions to set it up. This way you will have a little Add to CouchPotato button at the bottom of IMDB-Movie-Pages. After youre finished hit About above. Restart In order to apply all the settings restart your CP. The General-Settings need a restart in order to be applied; all other settings can be changed while running CP. You can restart CP by clicking on the button About and hit Restart.

Add Movies
You have to possibilities: 1. Use the Userscript which was mentioned in the Setup 2. Manually add a movie In order to add a movie by yourself open CP in a browser-window. You will find a field Movie name in the top bar. Add the title of the movie you want to add in this field and hit enter:

CP will now look up the title in the IMDB and shows you the matches for the title afterwards. Pick the correct film from the drop-down list and choose the quality which you want to assign from the dropdown box on the right. After you set everything correct hit Add. Wait a little bit after CP finished you can see the entries of your movies on the homepage of Couch Potato. CP will start looking for new releases in the desired interval and after you added a movie to your database.

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