[styxit]

I have all my media + SB CP etc running on my freenas.
Is it possible to get a how to install for freenas (or freebsd), or it just won't work?

I can not provide freenas-specific instructions, but since freenas is Unix-based. You should be able to install python and get HTPC Manager up and running. Maybe see the Install instructions.

i am giving this a try using openmediavault.

i have putty in and when running python Htpc.py i get the following:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "Htpc.py", line 144, in <module>
main()
File "Htpc.py", line 71, in main
args = parse_arguments()
File "Htpc.py", line 15, in parse_arguments
import argparse
ImportError: No module named argparse

i know nothing about linux or python so.... yeah.
any ideas?

This looks to me like you are using a python version previous to 2.7. One of the requirements for running HTPC Manager is python > 2.7. Try updating your python version.

To styxit

I saw you edited something in regards to update feature of HTPC, could you comment on that ? - Just to refresh your memory, in the past I had problems updating from HTPC (me and some other guys reported it; p.49, p.50) when using the update option.

The updater is a tricky thing. I am not sure on how to do this. Someone else contributed to the updater an decided it updates using GIT. So from then on the git command was required to update AND Htpc Manager had to be downloaded using 'git clone'. For me personally this is fine, but a lot of users do not have git or know how to use it.
(this reminds me i need to upgrade the install instructions on the website)

The updater-changes in made a while ago are small bug-fixes, for the updater and mostly added some logging-info. A permanent solution that works for everybody has not yet been found. The problem with the install-from-zip users is that there is no way to determine the current version you are running and compare it to the latest version that is available. When downloading the zip with all code from github, the commit-hash is not included in any of the files as far as i know.

Edit: the updater has been re-written and should be able to update without git!! See my post below