I am attempting to connect to my slingbox back in the UK using the public IP given on the slingplayer web interface as i explain. By connecting this way you can use the internal IP of the slingbox. the slingbox is in one room and you are in another.
#Xbmc slingplayer plugin software#
Basic general information for popular DVR software packages - not all actually record. Note: this is may be considered a comparison of DVB software, not all listed packages have recording capabilities. But if this ends up working, I don't mind the cost. Barcrawler, it sounds as though you are connecting to your slingbox within a local network i.e. This is a comparison of digital video recorder (DVR), also known as personal video recorder (PVR), software packages. As said, too bad I need a solution at all since just putting the TV shows on the internet directly (in my case, Live Sports) would have negated my need for all these devices. Go to this site for a popular browser plug-in that provides media-rich streaming audio. but it requires a plugin thats not compatible with mobile devices. I've still got some other stuff to mess with, but so far solution looks good. With that in mind, I reasoned that acquiring a SlingBox was the only solution that.
But I guess they are sending a controlling signal back to settop box. I would have thought those were output only. I didn't not have to plug in that IRC controller thing and the only connection between the Slingbox and the Settop box are the composite cables and the audio cables. One thing that I find really neat but I'm not sure how it is doing it is that the SlingBox is controlling the Settop box. XBMC features a Python Scripts Engine for addon extensions, WindowXML application framework (a XML-based widget toolkit for creating a GUI for apps / widgets). 3) Mount network drives via SMB or NFS through XBMC will not work. Video > files > add videos > root filesystem > navigate to folder and click ok. 2) To playback local media I found you need to add files via Root. 1) Build 142+ fresh flash and restore is required. When our plugin starts with no parameters we will access the website page, scrape it to build a menu containing the 12 items.
#Xbmc slingplayer plugin how to#
Now the cable box can sit in a corner next to my routers, and I can sling TV to other floors through iOS devices and AppleTVs. Only tips and pointers on how to use the plugin. Slingbox showed up a few hours later and I plugged that in and got it to work pretty easily.