Tag: command
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Send Command to XBMC to Start Music
You can use the following command to remotely start music playing on XBMC. The examples below were sent while I was SSH’ed into the XBMC machine. As you’ll notice from the music paths, I am using some of the ‘special’ paths which call up the LastFM tags of Rap and Alternative. Start the LastFM Rap…
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Restart XBMC Live from SSH (Bash Shell)
As an update for XBMCbuntu, you can run the following command to start/stop XBMC: sudo service lightdm [start|stop|restart] Original Post: I always forget the command for restarting XBMC Live from the shell, so I figured I would post it to my blog. It’s a really simple, one-line command: sudo /etc/init.d/xbmc-live restart Then enter the password…
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Set XBMC to Auto Update Library
After getting XBMC Live installed on my Revo and getting my library setup, I couldn’t find a simple option to have XBMC watch my video folder and automatically update my library. In place of this missing functionality, I figured I would setup a simple timed job to automatically update my library for me every hour.…