Slide over to "System" and choose it, then choose "Appearance", "Skin", "Settings", "General Settings". I personally liked to turn on "Enable auto scrolling for plot & review". Under the "Home window Options" tab I chose "Show music info" off, "Show weather info" on, and "Hide - Music" on. If you plan to have music files on your hard drive, then only change the weather option.
Now backup to the "International" tab and choose your "Region" for time display, and set your "Timezone country" and "Timezone" information as well. The time is displayed in the upper right hand corner of your screen.
Go back and choose the "Video" tab. Under the "Library" tab choose "Update library on Startup" and turn it on.
Under the "File lists" tab turn on "Combine split video items".
Go back and choose the "Weather" tab and select "Get more". Choose the weather service you'd like to use. I chose "Yahoo! Weather", and "Install". Click on "Weather" again and select the option you installed.
Go back and select the "Add-ons" tab. You may need to select the ".." to go back to the main list. This will grant you access to adding and changing all the add-on software that makes XBMC such a wonderful program. Go to "Services", "Watchdog", select it and choose "Install". Once it installs click on it again and choose "Configure". Under the "General" tab turn on "Scan on startup" and turn off "Hide progress of library scan/clean". Under the "Advanced" and change "Startup delay" to 90 or more seconds. Choose "OK" at the bottom.
Thursday, December 18, 2014
Setting Up RaspBMC Part 1
Once you get past the First time help screen you should see a box in the lower right adding and or updating a few add-ons, don't worry this is normal.
You should be presented with a "Programs" menu. Choose the "Program Add-ons", then "RaspBMC Settings". Under the network configuration tab, your gonna verify that the info looks correct and make changes as/if needed.
Skip over the Nightly Build Configuration tab to System Configuration. Make sure Keep RaspBMC updated is selected. You can set many options here, do as you wish. This tab also has an advanced over locking section. The software comes with a minor tweet in CPU over locking already done for you. I suggest leaving the setting as-is. Unless you really need to make changes, not to do so. Everything else in this tab can be left alone for now.
Unless you have reason to change anything else choose the "OK" at the bottom. You should be presented with a configuration updated, do you want to restart XBMC now. Select "Yes".
When it reboots you'll get a pop up about RaspBMC is becoming OSMC, just choose "OK". You'll also have the option to follow Vero on Kickstarter. Unless you're really interested choose "No thanks".
Pressing "back", "exit" or "esc" on your remote or keyboard will get you to the main menu of XBMC.
You should be presented with a "Programs" menu. Choose the "Program Add-ons", then "RaspBMC Settings". Under the network configuration tab, your gonna verify that the info looks correct and make changes as/if needed.
Skip over the Nightly Build Configuration tab to System Configuration. Make sure Keep RaspBMC updated is selected. You can set many options here, do as you wish. This tab also has an advanced over locking section. The software comes with a minor tweet in CPU over locking already done for you. I suggest leaving the setting as-is. Unless you really need to make changes, not to do so. Everything else in this tab can be left alone for now.
Unless you have reason to change anything else choose the "OK" at the bottom. You should be presented with a configuration updated, do you want to restart XBMC now. Select "Yes".
When it reboots you'll get a pop up about RaspBMC is becoming OSMC, just choose "OK". You'll also have the option to follow Vero on Kickstarter. Unless you're really interested choose "No thanks".
Pressing "back", "exit" or "esc" on your remote or keyboard will get you to the main menu of XBMC.
Booting Noobs
I put the SD card in the Pi and plugged it in. I was greeted by the "NOOBS 1.3.5" screen. Your version may differ slightly. I checked the RaspBMC box and pressed the letter I to install and clicked on "Yes" to confirm.
It opened a box saying that the OS had been installed correctly and I clicked on OK.
Make sure your Pi is connected to the Internet before you click the OK.
The Pi rebooted and asked me to wait while it setup RaspBMC.
After a short time it rebooted and started going through its update process. Your Pi will go through many screen changes and reboot several times during this phase. I suggest watching a TV show while you wait... Yes, it's going to be awhile.
Once this is done you'll be greeted by a "First run help" screen. Wait about 30 seconds and you'll get a pop up asking what language you would like to choose. I chose English/English.
If your TV has a CEC compatible remote, RaspBMC should automatically recognize it and display a box in the lower right saying it found a compatible device. This will allow you to use you TV remote to do the most basic control of your Pi while running RaspBMC.
It opened a box saying that the OS had been installed correctly and I clicked on OK.
Make sure your Pi is connected to the Internet before you click the OK.
The Pi rebooted and asked me to wait while it setup RaspBMC.
After a short time it rebooted and started going through its update process. Your Pi will go through many screen changes and reboot several times during this phase. I suggest watching a TV show while you wait... Yes, it's going to be awhile.
Once this is done you'll be greeted by a "First run help" screen. Wait about 30 seconds and you'll get a pop up asking what language you would like to choose. I chose English/English.
If your TV has a CEC compatible remote, RaspBMC should automatically recognize it and display a box in the lower right saying it found a compatible device. This will allow you to use you TV remote to do the most basic control of your Pi while running RaspBMC.
Start Here
So today I'm sitting in front of my computer recently having finished formating a new SD card for my Raspberry Pi. I got an 8gig Kingston class 10 SDHC. I've read somewhere you can run RaspBMC on a 4gig, but the 8gig cost us only $9 at our local Fred Meyer, and bigger is better... right?
I'm installing NOOBS on it as I type. NOOBS I believe stands for New Out Of Box Software. You can buy the software on a card, or download it and install it on a card you already own.
You're also going to need a USB Keyboard and probably a mouse. A couple weeks back we bought this nice wireless keyboard/mouse combo. There are many on Amazon to choose from if you don't like that one. You can always use the one laying in your closet too.
I also suggest getting a USB hard drive to attach to your Pi. The link is to the drive we got, 2TBs should last you a good long time, for the average movie owner. Buy accordingly, you may need less or more. I've found that the average DVD movie is about 1gig in size, and the average bluray movie is about 6.5gigs.
I'm installing NOOBS on it as I type. NOOBS I believe stands for New Out Of Box Software. You can buy the software on a card, or download it and install it on a card you already own.
You're also going to need a USB Keyboard and probably a mouse. A couple weeks back we bought this nice wireless keyboard/mouse combo. There are many on Amazon to choose from if you don't like that one. You can always use the one laying in your closet too.
I also suggest getting a USB hard drive to attach to your Pi. The link is to the drive we got, 2TBs should last you a good long time, for the average movie owner. Buy accordingly, you may need less or more. I've found that the average DVD movie is about 1gig in size, and the average bluray movie is about 6.5gigs.
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