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RE: [UNSUPPORTED] Advanced Launcher - Applications Launcher Addon for XBMC - jaydash - 2015-01-15

@Angelscry

I'd also like to THANK you (again!) for your time and effort with this add on. It is literally the most important add on on my Kodi box -my family and I thank you from the bottom of our hearts. It's coders like you who make this community special.

Hopefully the community can continue some sort of AL support -I know if it ever breaks I'll personally have to find another option beside Kodi!


RE: [UNSUPPORTED] Advanced Launcher - Applications Launcher Addon for XBMC - aoaaron - 2015-01-15

How do you download this app?

Does it work like rom collection browser


RE: [UNSUPPORTED] Advanced Launcher - Applications Launcher Addon for XBMC - aoaaron - 2015-01-15

Advanced launcher opens the games but it doesn't return to XBMC.

I want advanced launcher to close XBMC, Open dolphin then when I close dolphin, open XBMC at where I was like RCB.

Is this possible?


RE: [UNSUPPORTED] Advanced Launcher - Applications Launcher Addon for XBMC - Angelscry - 2015-01-16

(2015-01-15, 21:57)aoaaron Wrote: How do you download this app?

Does it work like rom collection browser
Have you take time to read the first post of this thread? All the replies to your questions are in it.

(2015-01-15, 22:22)aoaaron Wrote: Advanced launcher opens the games but it doesn't return to XBMC.

I want advanced launcher to close XBMC, Open dolphin then when I close dolphin, open XBMC at where I was like RCB.

Is this possible?
You will have to write/use a script (sh, bat, vb, etc...) to do this.


RE: [UNSUPPORTED] Advanced Launcher - Applications Launcher Addon for XBMC - bakito - 2015-01-16

you can use an autoit script to do that although it is not necessary with dolphin here is an exemple of such a script ( here it is for pcsx)

HotKeySet("{ESC}", "Terminate")

If $CmdLine[0] == 1 Then
ProcessClose ( "XBMC.exe" )
Run ( '"j:\emulations\PS2\emulateur\PCSX2 1.0.0\pcsx2.exe" --nogui --fullscreen "' & $CmdLine[1] & '"', "j:\emulations\PS2\emulateur\PCSX2 1.0.0\" )
While 1
Sleep(100)
WEnd
EndIf

Func Terminate()
ProcessClose ( "pcsx2.exe" )
Run ( '"e:\Program Files (x86)\XBMC\XBMC.exe"' )
WinWait ( "XBMC" )
WinActivate ( "XBMC" )
Exit 0
EndFunc


of course you have to point to dolphin and not pcsx2.exe and you have to add "/b /e" without quote as argument for dolphin.exe ( to remplace " --nogui --fullscreen" of the above script)
and point to the correct xbmc.exe in your system...
Again such a script is not needed for doplhin unless you want to have dolhin to run alone for more usable power...
you can find autoit there:https://www.autoitscript.com/site/autoit/

(note that tis script also make "esc" the exit button but again in dolphin it is not necessary)


RE: [UNSUPPORTED] Advanced Launcher - Applications Launcher Addon for XBMC - naval85 - 2015-01-17

which skin is this........skin used in above snaps


RE: [UNSUPPORTED] Advanced Launcher - Applications Launcher Addon for XBMC - DaveyK - 2015-01-18

(2014-12-31, 16:43)Angelscry Wrote:
(2014-12-31, 12:08)DaveyK Wrote:
(2014-12-30, 23:55)Angelscry Wrote: Setting for what exactly? Your Minix system is under Windows? Linux? Android?

Hi,

It is Android.

TBH I'm not sure, I'm stuck at this point.

The Launcher states it is launching but the emulator screen doesn't appear on-screen as it does when running on Windows.... I was thinking there may be a setting required somewhere to have the emulator appear on-screen?
Which emulator are you using? Are you trying to start a Windows dedicated emulator on an Android based system?

I've tried both Windows .exe. emulators and apk...does anyone know of a specific ones that work for each platform?


RE: [UNSUPPORTED] Advanced Launcher - Applications Launcher Addon for XBMC - irish66 - 2015-01-19

Hi. Windows user here. A while back when Xmbc was called Xmbc I set up AL to launch Pale Moon, the browser I use. At the time as far I remember it didn't work. Actually I had forgotten until I looked at AL tonight/morning, and saw pale moon listed. So I decided to give it a go, and it worked fine. Although for some reason when i go to run Pale moon, it asks me if i want to save the exe file. The thing is, now I've forgotten how to use AL to run a program. If I right click pale moon in my AL menu, i see
one of the options is "create new launcher" Then I get "standalone Launcher, files launcher etc etc. So I choose "Standalone Launcher" which brings up "xfinity installer" flash drive, fusion, and xmbc. Okay, i have a feeling that fusion is the one i choose. But anyway, if i do choose fusion, there is nothing there. ie no folders or files to go into to find an exe file to run. If I choose "add sources" that seems to be to be to do with running a media file, and not an exe file. So any help would be appreciated.


RE: [UNSUPPORTED] Advanced Launcher - Applications Launcher Addon for XBMC - spyder - 2015-01-19

@irish66 - Try adding your 'program files' folder(or C drive) to your file manager sources.


RE: [UNSUPPORTED] Advanced Launcher - Applications Launcher Addon for XBMC - J7AYU - 2015-01-19

Could anybody help me write a script? What i would like it to do is auto extract a 7z archive to Temp\Temp_PSX then when emulation is ended delete the extracted files if that makes sense?


RE: [UNSUPPORTED] Advanced Launcher - Applications Launcher Addon for XBMC - irish66 - 2015-01-19

SPYDER. Thank you very much. That worked fine. It seems so obvious now of course.


RE: [UNSUPPORTED] Advanced Launcher - Applications Launcher Addon for XBMC - johnodon - 2015-01-19

Having a bit of an issue and hoping someone can help me.

I am running XBMCBuntu Gotham (updated to 13.2). Since my need to is launch an app (EmulationStation) outside of XBMC, I am doing so by setting Openbox as the default desktop and launching XBMC from there so that I have an actual window manager running. Most of that work was taken from here: http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=157499&pid=1706466#pid1706466

I am using AL to launch EmulationStation via a bash script. Here are the contents...

Code:
#!/bin/bash
killall -9 xbmc.bin
emulationstation
xbmc

Doesn't get much simpler. Problem is that upon exiting EmulationStation and returning to XBMC, I am greeted with the "Remote Communication Server Failed to start" message. Here is the error taht is captured in the logs:

Code:
11:22:58 T:139663473002432  NOTICE: Running the application...
11:22:58 T:139662596859648  NOTICE: -->Python Interpreter Initialized<--
11:22:58 T:139662569682688  NOTICE: Thread JobWorker start, auto delete: true
11:22:58 T:139663473002432  NOTICE: starting zeroconf publishing
11:22:58 T:139663473002432  NOTICE: Webserver: Starting...
11:22:58 T:139662552897280  NOTICE: Thread JobWorker start, auto delete: true
11:22:58 T:139663473002432  NOTICE: WebServer: Started the webserver
11:22:58 T:139663473002432  NOTICE: starting upnp renderer
11:22:58 T:139662186239744  NOTICE: Thread JobWorker start, auto delete: true
11:22:58 T:139663473002432  NOTICE: ES: Starting event server
11:22:58 T:139662152668928  NOTICE: Thread EventServer start, auto delete: false
11:22:58 T:139662152668928  NOTICE: ES: Starting UDP Event server on 0.0.0.0:9777
11:22:58 T:139662152668928  NOTICE: UDP: Listening on port 9777
11:22:58 T:139663473002432   ERROR: JSONRPC Server: Failed to connect to sdpd
11:22:58 T:139663473002432   ERROR: JSONRPC Server: Failed to bind ipv4 serversocket

In my research I found that I can see which ports are currently in a listening state with the following command:

Code:
sudo lsof -i -P | grep -i "listen"

This produces....

Code:
xbmc@HTPCT420:~$ sudo lsof -i -P | grep -i "listen"
[sudo] password for xbmc:
smbd       670   root   30u  IPv6  13423      0t0  TCP *:445 (LISTEN)
smbd       670   root   31u  IPv6  13424      0t0  TCP *:139 (LISTEN)
smbd       670   root   32u  IPv4  13425      0t0  TCP *:445 (LISTEN)
smbd       670   root   33u  IPv4  13426      0t0  TCP *:139 (LISTEN)
rpcbind    683   root    8u  IPv4   9142      0t0  TCP *:111 (LISTEN)
rpcbind    683   root   11u  IPv6   9145      0t0  TCP *:111 (LISTEN)
rpc.statd  739  statd    8u  IPv4   1684      0t0  TCP *:50943 (LISTEN)
rpc.statd  739  statd   10u  IPv6   1688      0t0  TCP *:47329 (LISTEN)
sshd      1081   root    3u  IPv4  13442      0t0  TCP *:22 (LISTEN)
sshd      1081   root    4u  IPv6  13444      0t0  TCP *:22 (LISTEN)
dnsmasq   1308 nobody    5u  IPv4  13987      0t0  TCP HTPCT420:53 (LISTEN)
sh        1774   xbmc   37u  IPv4  14210      0t0  TCP *:1625 (LISTEN)
sh        1774   xbmc   44u  IPv6  14217      0t0  TCP *:9090 (LISTEN)
es.sh     1775   xbmc   37u  IPv4  14210      0t0  TCP *:1625 (LISTEN)
es.sh     1775   xbmc   44u  IPv6  14217      0t0  TCP *:9090 (LISTEN)
xbmc      1779   xbmc   37u  IPv4  14210      0t0  TCP *:1625 (LISTEN)
xbmc      1779   xbmc   44u  IPv6  14217      0t0  TCP *:9090 (LISTEN)
xbmc.bin  1788   xbmc   37u  IPv4  14210      0t0  TCP *:1625 (LISTEN)
xbmc.bin  1788   xbmc   44u  IPv6  14217      0t0  TCP *:9090 (LISTEN)
xbmc.bin  1788   xbmc   51u  IPv6  16643      0t0  TCP *:8080 (LISTEN)
xbmc.bin  1788   xbmc   52u  IPv4  16647      0t0  TCP *:8080 (LISTEN)
xbmc.bin  1788   xbmc   59u  IPv4  16658      0t0  TCP *:1764 (LISTEN)

If I am reading this right, does this mean that my shell script (named es.sh) itself is the culprit and listening on a port that XBMC wants to use (JSON)? If so, is there something I can add to the script to close itself before XBMC launches?

FYI...if I disable Settings --> Services --> Remote Control --> Allow programs on other systems to control XBMC, the error does not present itself.

TIA!

John


RE: [UNSUPPORTED] Advanced Launcher - Applications Launcher Addon for XBMC - some Chump - 2015-01-20

Is it possible to sort games by a "Sort title", the same as you can do with movies?


RE: [UNSUPPORTED] Advanced Launcher - Applications Launcher Addon for XBMC - bakito - 2015-01-20

Yes you can!
Cheers


RE: [UNSUPPORTED] Advanced Launcher - Applications Launcher Addon for XBMC - some Chump - 2015-01-21

(2015-01-20, 13:47)bakito Wrote: Yes you can!
Cheers

How do you do it?