XBMCNut

I recently configured a Raspberry Pi for a friend using Xbian and a Sony 46" LCD. It worked flawlessly with CEC support although there were a few commands that the Sony TV (remote) would not pass through the HDMI cable to the Pi. As such, I had no Context Menu or Info button which are both rather useful. After spending a few hours searching about, I managed to resolve it by remapping the coloured buttons below the D-Pad to perform the following: Red = Context Menu Blue = Info Yellow = Update video library Green = Clean video library

I wanted to try this to see if my 1.0.5a Frodo 12.2 Xbian build would boot any faster with the Xbian boot partition on a USB2 flash drive or portable hard drive. As my video library was already on a Western Digital 320GB 2.5" portable HDD, it made sense to just create another partition on there to support the boot process. What follows is how I achieved this.

I frequently purge my video library on my Synology NAS and needed a quick and easy way to clean the video library. I tried the automatic method but this comes with a caveat. If your library isn't quite ready when the clean-up starts, your entire library gets deleted. Got burnt twice so have instigated the button push method below under Openelec 3.0.2.

Very handy tip. Note that Xbian 1.0.5a > has this already integrated. http://www.xbmchub.com/blog/2012/04/24/fusion-easy-addon-installation-for-xbmc/

Had me stumped for a while before a light bulb went off in my head. I was getting a grey screen with the sound in the background, the GUI would stay visible (i.e. The movie selection screen would not go away) and attempts to do anything else locked up the Pi.

If you run XBMC on the Raspberry Pi, you may have noticed that the SKIN option is now missing at the bottom of the Settings page. This has now moved under the actual Skin selection in Appearance and is not that obvious.