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Front Row Plugin for XBMC now available

Bran — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 23:03:07 +0000

I’m happy to announce the release of a plugin for XBMC. I know some of you have been asking for it. Go to the plugins page to download.

Front Row Plugin for EyeTV now available

Bran — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:36:41 +0000

I have received multiple requests about a plugin for EyeTV. I don’t have the EyeTV software so making a plugin required some help from someone who does. Thankfully some of those wanting the plugin were able to provide me with the info that I needed.

It works in Snow Leopard and is available on the Front Row Plugins page.

Special thanks go out to Roger Quinton and Claudelee for making this happen.

MythTV Front Row plugin now available

Bran — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 12:57:53 +0000

A few users requested a plugin for launching the MythTV frontend so I added one. It works in Snow Leopard and is available on the Front Row Plugins page.

Page for all Front Row Plugins

Bran — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 11:43:49 +0000

There is now a page that has links to all the Front Row plugins along with info about installation, uninstallation, etc. It’s here.

New Front Row plugins for Snow Leopard!

Bran — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 05:49:02 +0000

Those of you upgrading to Snow Leopard will discover that my previous plugins for Front Row won’t work.

The good news is that I have new plugins that work in Snow Leopard. These plugins have been completely rewritten using Objective-C (which I have been wanting to do) and are no longer based on the FrontPython project. This should lead to more stable code that is a little easier for me to improve.

The bad news is that they are still a little buggy. They should launch your program fine but will most likely not be able to return to FrontRow when you exit the launched program. There are probably some other bugs too.

Even though they still need a little work Snow Leopard comes out today so I figured I should get something out. These work in Leopard too (I haven’t tried them in Tiger).

If you are still running Leopard and want to use the previous versions they are still available using the links in the original blog posts.

Front Row Hulu

Bran — Fri, 29 May 2009 03:17:37 +0000

UPDATE: For a version that works in Snow Leopard see this post

Hulu has released a desktop client called Hulu Desktop. I’ve had some requests to make a Front Row Plugin to support Hulu Desktop. Since Hulu is the main reason I started using Boxee and made my Front Row Boxee Plugin it only seemed right. So, here it is:

Download FrontRowHulu.

BEFORE you run this you should have at least run the Hulu Desktop once to accept their EULA. If you don’t the plugin will think it wasn’t able to launch Hulu Desktop. I would also suggest switching it to full screen mode.
Also, like with my other plugins it is assumed that Hulu Desktop lives in /Applications. Also like the others, it is recommended that you restart Front Row after installing the plugin by running
killall Front\ Row
at the command line.

This can be used along side my other Front Row plugins without conflict.

Front Row Plex

Bran — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 23:52:50 +0000

UPDATE: For a version that works in Snow Leopard see this post

In response to a reader’s request here is a FrontRow Plugin for Plex. This is just an updated version of my Boxee Plugin. You should be able to use both together.
It is assumed that Plex lives in your /Applications folder.

Download FrontRowPlex

Remember, that for it to appear you may need to restart FrontRow. That can be done by typing
killall Front\ Row
on the command line.

Front Row Boxee

Bran — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 19:52:37 +0000

UPDATE: For a version that works in Snow Leopard see this post

I have thrown together a plugin for Front Row that will allow you to launch Boxee. If you want to try it out you can get it from http://holeintheceiling.com/files/FrontRowBoxee.dmg.

If you install it and you don’t see Boxee as an option then you should runkillall Front\ Row from the command line. That will make sure that it gets loaded.

It’s a bit of a work in progress. When you exit Boxee it should put you back into Front Row but that doesn’t always seem to work. Also, you sometimes see the desktop for a few seconds as it switches between the interfaces. Currently it is just some hacking done to the code from the frontpython project. I would like to move it from python to obj-c as time allows.