XBMC Tips, Tricks, Troubleshooting

I've also gotten rid of the mouse and keyboard on the main media centre and use unified remote to use my phone screen as a keyboard and mouse...
 
Using one of those tiny keyboards with a trackball, works fine.

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charge it with something like this, that I got with my cellphone, I think... it was lying around.
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Jabberwocky, is that Bluetooth? Whered u get yours? What OS u using with XBMC?
 
brucem said:
Jabberwocky, is that Bluetooth? Whered u get yours? What OS u using with XBMC?
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Using openelec, . windows picks it up as a standard keyboard and mouse as well. If I had to get another one i`d rather go for a touch-pad version than a trackball. The trackball works fine with those big buttons on xbmc though. And the arrow buttons are ok-ish for NES emulation.

Got it at a shop in mafikeng.

http://www.pricecheck.co.za/offers/24015843/Esquire+Mini+Wireless+Keyboard+With+Optical+Tack+Mouse/
 
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Funny, I don't even have a keyboard or mouse connected to my main openelec machine: just the remote. Do all the necessary via another windows pc - file moving, deleting, copying etc.

(I still laugh whenever I reboot the thing and I get the BIOS message onscreen "Keyboard missing: Press F1 to resume" and then it boots.)

Since this is a tips and tricks thread, one thing I've found very handy is to remove the flash drive that openelec is installed on, stick it in a windows machine every now and then and make a backup image of it. This has saved many hours of reconfiguring whenever updates go squiffy and stuff like that.
 
Grouter said:
Funny, I don't even have a keyboard or mouse connected to my main openelec machine: just the remote. Do all the necessary via another windows pc - file moving, deleting, copying etc.

(I still laugh whenever I reboot the thing and I get the BIOS message onscreen "Keyboard missing: Press F1 to resume" and then it boots.)

Since this is a tips and tricks thread, one thing I've found very handy is to remove the flash drive that openelec is installed on, stick it in a windows machine every now and then and make a backup image of it. This has saved many hours of reconfiguring whenever updates go squiffy and stuff like that.
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Got one of those el-cheapo baobab remotes. Using its arrows to simulate a mouse so you can type in a youtube search does not work very well.

Its was nice for turning the pc on, had it connected to the 24 pin atx connection between the mobo and the PSU to turn the pc on and off, but it came loose and now I can`t for the life of me figure out which pins to connect it to again.

maybe someone here can help

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Grouter said:
Since this is a tips and tricks thread, one thing I've found very handy is to remove the flash drive that openelec is installed on, stick it in a windows machine every now and then and make a backup image of it. This has saved many hours of reconfiguring whenever updates go squiffy and stuff like that.
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Awesome tip - need to do this when I get home
 
APoc184 said:
Go into Get add-ons, open the context menu for XMBC.org Add-ons (right click mouse or 'c' on keyboard) and then select Force Refresh.

You might have to close and open XBMC again after it finished (I had to)
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Thanks for this ^

Worked like a charm!
 
Right, will be well-pleased if anyone can help me with this. If I have a video card, with 3 different output connectors (DVI, VGA, HDMI):
- can I connect different screen to all of them, and display content on all of them? (mirrored content, i.e. identical content on all 3 screens)
- would it be possible to output different resolutions to them e.g. 1920x1080 on one, 1366x768 on another, 800x600 on another
- if I ran XMBC, and the screen had different resolutions, would it display on all of them, and scale or something?
- lastly, is there a way in XBMC to send different media to the different output connector e.g. movie1 to the DVI out, and movie2 to the HDMI out...

I know some of the above won't be possible, just trying to understand what options I have... want to use a single XMBC machine sending media to different rooms (even if it's the same content going to all)
 
Guys I downloaded Openelec and put it on a usb stick on the internal usb port but when I start up the microserver it doesn't pick it up....what am I doing wrong here...?
 
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