XBMC on Raspberry PI

Install XBMC on Raspbian

• raspbmc

• following the instructions on Installing on Windows (2000/XP/Vista/7) http://www.raspbmc.com/download/
• but PI can not boot
• http://www.chiphell.com/thread-662458-1-1.html A good reference for raspbmc installation and many others

• build from source:

• http://www.raspbian.org/RaspbianXBMC
• I have not tried. Someone said this method is very slow (upto 12 hours).

• install pre-built package using apt-get:

• http://michael.gorven.za.net/raspberrypi/xbmc The following is a copy of this post, plus some my inputs.

The easiest way to install the package is to add my archive to your system. To do this, store the following in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mene.list: (this file does not exist before, you need to create it)

deb http://archive.mene.za.net/raspbian wheezy contrib

and import the archive signing key:

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-key 5243CDED

Then update the package lists:

sudo apt-get update

You can then install it as you would with any other package, for example, with apt-get:

sudo apt-get install xbmc

The user which you're going to run XBMC as needs to be a member of the following groups:

audio video input dialout plugdev tty

The check your current user, use command:

whoami

The command to check if these groups exist:

egrep -i "^groupname" /etc/group

For example find out if audio group exists or not, enter:

egrep -i "^audio" /etc/group

If a group doesn't exist, you need to create it:

addgroup --system input

To check the groups that a user belongs to, use the command:

groups username

or

groups

which check for the current user by default

To add an existing user to an existing group

usermod -a -G group_name user_name

See http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/ubuntu-add-user-to-group/  for more information.

Setup some udev rules to grant it ownership of input devices (otherwise the keyboard won't work in XBMC), by placing the following in /etc/udev/rules.d/99-input.rules:

SUBSYSTEM=="input", GROUP="input", MODE="0660"

KERNEL=="tty[0-9]*", GROUP="tty", MODE="0660"

Running

To run XBMC, run xbmc-standalone from a VT (i.e. not under X). XBMC accesses the display directly and not via Xorg.

If you want XBMC to automatically start when the system boots, edit /etc/default/xbmc and change ENABLEDto 1:

ENABLED=1

You also need to set the user which XBMC should run as (the xbmc user is not automatically created at the moment). Run sudo service xbmc start to test this.

To use smart phone as remote, download Android App “Yaste”. See reference http://www.chiphell.com/thread-662458-1-1.html