Success on Boxee Box

[Mark Suman]

I got a Boxee Box for Christmas and finally was able to set it up this week. So far I am pleased with the system, while it has its disappointments. (No free hulu, no Netflix until later this month, some apps are missing from the App Box.) I was very pleased last night when I installed the MythBoxee nightly and it worked! I've been using MythBoxee on Mac OS X for the last few months and have spotty results. Running the "nightly" build on the Boxee Box worked fine.

These are some things I did to make sure it ran well:

1. Upgraded my ubuntu box to 10.10 and upgraded my mythtv installation to 23.1. (I think this what a big help)

2. Manually entered my database information into MythBoxee instead of using the auto-discovery feature with a PIN. That has never worked for me, and didn't work last night either.

3. Used smb instead of xml. I briefly tried xml last night because I've seen some chatter from Erik on the list that he was looking into it. Didn't work. Switch to samba and thumbnails and videos loaded just fine.

Thanks for the great work, Erik. MythBoxee is as essential piece to my home entertainment set up.

Mark

[Mark D Montgomery II]

On Jan 6, 10:24 am, Mark Suman <mwsu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I got a Boxee Box for Christmas and finally was able to set it up this week.
> So far I am pleased with the system, while it has its disappointments. (No
> free hulu, no Netflix until later this month, some apps are missing from the
> App Box.) I was very pleased last night when I installed the MythBoxee
> nightly and it worked! I've been using MythBoxee on Mac OS X for the last
> few months and have spotty results. Running the "nightly" build on the Boxee
> Box worked fine.

Cool! I haven't tried it since Erik said he was hoping to work on it
over Christmas.
I'll have to play with it tonight.

>
> These are some things I did to make sure it ran well:
> 1. Upgraded my ubuntu box to 10.10 and upgraded my mythtv installation to
> 23.1. (I think this what a big help)
> 2. Manually entered my database information into MythBoxee instead of using
> the auto-discovery feature with a PIN. That has never worked for me, and
> didn't work last night either.
> 3. Used smb instead of xml. I briefly tried xml last night because I've seen
> some chatter from Erik on the list that he was looking into it. Didn't work.
> Switch to samba and thumbnails and videos loaded just fine.
>

What all do you have to do on the mythbackend box for the samba setup?

> Thanks for the great work, Erik. MythBoxee is as essential piece to my home
> entertainment set up.
>
> Mark

Mark II

[Mark Suman]

I am simply sharing the folder where mythtv stores its recordings. Then in MythBoxee, you just tell it the name of the share.

Mark

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[Mark D Montgomery II]

Hrm..still doesn't seem to be working for me.
It connects to the db fine, but never gets farther than that.
It just sits at the Loading screen indefinitely.
Trying to load the Status screen just tells me that there was an
error.

Mark II

On Jan 6, 12:46 pm, Mark Suman <mwsu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am simply sharing the folder where mythtv stores its recordings. Then in
> MythBoxee, you just tell it the name of the share.
>
> Mark
>

> > mythboxee+...@googlegroups.com<mythboxee%2Bunsu...@googlegroups.com>

[Mark Suman]

What is the name of your samba share? I had a problem with my share
name and had to change it. Also, can you mount this share on another
computer?

Mark

[Mark D Montgomery II]

Here's my smb.conf from the box.
It's pretty basic. I can mount the share on my other machine fine (it
asks for pass, I hit enter, it mounts).
I've also noticed that mythboxee doesn't give me the option to try to
pick between xml and samba.
The Text is there that would seem to be the select option to change
it, but it can't be highlighted.


[global]
workgroup = RESNET
server string = Samba Server
security = user
load printers = yes
log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
max log size = 50
local master = no
dns proxy = no
map to guest = Bad User
[homes]
comment = Home Directories
browseable = no
writable = yes
[printers]
comment = All Printers
path = /var/spool/samba
browseable = no
guest ok = no
writable = no
printable = yes
[mythtv]
comment = MythTV Recordings
path = /mnt/VidMaster/TV
public = yes
writeable = no
guest ok = yes
read only = yes

On Jan 7, 1:06 am, Mark Suman <mwsu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> What is the name of your samba share? I had a problem with my share
> name and had to change it. Also, can you mount this share on another
> computer?
>
> Mark
>