iCouchPotato released – an iOS client app for CouchPotato

CouchPotato is an amazing application that automates the movie downloading process using Usenet or Torrents.
More info about CouchPotato

I developed an application called iCouchPotato for iOS devices to manage your CouchPotato watchlist and lookup movie information from your iPod/iPhone or iPad.

The application can be found in Cydia (on the ModMyi repo).

More info and support for iCouchPotato

Airplay is coming to OpenElec !!

Thanks to my own request on the OpenElec forums, the creators of OpenElec (a dedicated XBMC OS which runs a lot faster than XBMC Live which is simply Ubuntu), have decided to get started on implementing Airplay (Airplayer+Shairport) into OpenElec !

You can follow any news and progress right here: http://openelec.tv/forum/19-feature-suggestions/6383-integeration-of-shairport-a-airplayer-which-enables-full-videopictures-and-music-streaming-from-ios

I miss Airplayer!

Currently I’m using OpenElec, the “XBMC OS”, which is a great solution for people who want XBMC and the official addons.
But there is no way to install extra packages in OpenElec.
This means no Airplayer, no Shairport.

I will return to XBMClive this week and give you guys an updated guide to install Airplayer AND Shairport.

• Airplayer allows you to stream video/pictures from iTunes/iOS devices to XBMClive.
• Shairport allows you to stream music (YES it’s real) from iTunes/iOS devices to XBMClive.

So hang on, guide comming soon!

XBMCLive V.S. OpenELEC

OpenELEC advantages: superfast bootup!!
Cold bootup with XBMCLive: 1min 20sec
Cold bootup with OpenELEC: 0min 19sec

How is this possible?
XBMCLive, is almost a complete Ubuntu distro with XBMC running on top and on startup.
OpenELEC is not based on any Linux distribution, it’s build specially for XBMC!

Would you like to try it out?
Don’t wait any longer, head over to OpenELEC.tv.

Get AirPlay working on your XBMC live HTPC!

This guide is outdated. If you want AirPlay (video) on your XBMC just make sure you use the latest version of XBMC which is Eden at the moment of writing. It is build in to this version. Check the settings.

1. Go to https://github.com/PascalW/Airplayer and download the zip
2. Unzip it, rename it to PascalW-Airplayer and transfer it (SFTP client) over to your home folder in XBMC
3. SSH into XBMC (ssh username@xbmcip)
4. sudo apt-get update
5. sudo apt-get install libavahi-compat-libdnssd1 python python-pip
6. Dive into the folder you transfered in step 2 with ‘cd PascalW-Airplayer‘
7. sudo pip install -r requirements.txt
8. cd airplayer
9. Edit and insert your XBMC username and password in the settings file: sudo nano settings.py
10. Start AirPlayer: python airplayer.py
11. Start a video (YouTube for example) on your iOS device and AirPlay it over to XBMC!

Now if you like to start it up automatically every time you boot XBMC continue!

1. Get back to the previous folder cd ..
2. sudo cp scripts/ubuntu/airplayer /etc/init.d/airplayer
3. sudo update-rc.d airplayer defaults
4. sudo chmod +x /etc/init.d/airplayer
5. sudo nano /etc/init.d/airplayer Edit user (username), group (id username) and path to where the airplayer.py script is located for me it is “/home/tripkip/PascalW-Airplayer/airplayer/airplayer.py”
6. Save, reboot and test!

Credits to PascalW, the author of AirPlay for XBMC, Boxee and Plex.

Update XBMC Live to latest subversion (Dharma)

To make sure you keep your XBMC Live system up to date with the latest bug fixes and patches you should update your xbmc software to the latest subversion (SVN). Here is how you can achieve this:

Run the following commands from the terminal:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:team-xbmc-svn/ppa
sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install xbmc
sudo reboot