[BySimba80]

yes permissions 777 is that right the pulse audio only activate wen i exit the bpm and go to audio in kodi, i go install the kodibuntu again and try with other devices

[Dennisreneholm]

Hello again

I've now got newest version of Kodibuntu on my new Intel NUC.

I got everything working, except sound in steam.
I'm using pulseaudio, and i've checked that pulseaudio is running when i launch steam.

kodi@NUC:~$ pidof pulseaudio
1897

and that returns nothing when i exit steam, so my scripts should be working.

Why don't i have any sound in steam?
Don't i need to set the audio device somewhere in pulseaudio?

[EtheMan02]

@teeedubb never mind I finally got it to work. And my controls with the built-in game pad already worked with Kodi and now it works perfectly with Steam and my controller compatable games!

[Lakmir]

Hi, Windows user here (Win 7 Ultimate 64-bit.) I've just upgraded from Frodo straight to Helix 14.1. My Steam launcher was notably old (I don't even know how old!) so I went through the steps to add your repo to Kodi and the plugin automatically updated. But ever since I updated to Helix, the plugin isn't able to kill Kodi. I was able to get the old version to launch Steam, but I figured it was probably looking for kodi.exe in my tasks and that upgrading would fix it. Alas, no such luck; I've even had it try asking me if it should kill Kodi when switching to Steam, but even if I tell it to do so, Kodi remains stubbornly in the background. What's more, I've just discovered that if I enable the "Suspend Kodi sound when running Steam", Kodi's sound never comes back even after leaving Steam.

What's going on here? Am I doing something wrong?

[teeedubb]

Lakmir check in the settings to see if the script update check is enabled.

Dennisrenholm yeah you might need to set the default device for pulseaudio via its config program.

[Lakmir]

Script Update Notification is ticked. I tried enabling "Delete and update userdata scripts on next run" and got an error. Here's my output from kodi.log for the error:
http://pastebin.com/Xqaj20EN

And here's without Delete And Update checked, but with Ask enabled:
http://pastebin.com/8akuRHpp

I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling the add-on, and resetting it to defaults, but neither of those work either.

Okay, I appear to have fixed my problem. It looks like the old AHK executable was read-only? I tried compiling the script manually and Windows couldn't overwrite it. Read-only was conditionally applied to the folder as well. I renamed the executable and recompiled the script; the new .exe is behaving as expected. Weird!

[metheos]

Nice Addon! I've got it running on ubuntu with fluxbox. The problem I'm having with it is when I try to play a game with in-home streaming the streaming window opens behind Steam. If I alt-tab to it I can play as normal. I'm not familiar with wmctrl or its usage, so maybe there's something I need to modify in the script to fix this?

[teeedubb]

Does it happen when steam BPM is not launched via the add-on? The steam window names in Linux are kinda cryptic, you can get a list of open ones with the command

DISPLAY=:0 wmctrl -l

Probably best to report it to the steam git hub issue tracker as the add-on uses wmctrl to minimise/maximize kodi, activate the BPM window if its already open and detect whether the BPM window is open.

[metheos]

Just tried it and yeah, it does it without the addon too. Interestingly it all works great if I start a new X session with steamcompmgr running instead of fluxbox, but that's no good for running Kodi as far as I can tell.

[metheos]

Hello again

I've now got newest version of Kodibuntu on my new Intel NUC.

I got everything working, except sound in steam.
I'm using pulseaudio, and i've checked that pulseaudio is running when i launch steam.

kodi@NUC:~$ pidof pulseaudio
1897

and that returns nothing when i exit steam, so my scripts should be working.

Why don't i have any sound in steam?
Don't i need to set the audio device somewhere in pulseaudio?

I didn't have sound in steam until I manually edited /etc/pulse/default.pa

In the 'Load audio drivers statically' section I put my known working alsa device

Code:

load-module module-alsa-sink device=hw:0,3

You can determine yours from the output of aplay -l, here's my output

Code:

**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Generic [HD-Audio Generic], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 0: ALC892 Analog [ALC892 Analog]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 1: ALC892 Digital [ALC892 Digital]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

I commented out

Code:

#load-module module-udev-detect

And I installed jackdbus

Code:

sudo apt-get install jackd2

After that, it "just worked"

[teeedubb]

Metheos, you can run kodi in its own session and use either steamcompmgr or openbox with compton using this method here http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=...pid1584693

I also changed the quitKodiDialog function in defult.py included in the addon to ask whether I want to use openbox or steamcompmgr depending on whether openbox is running or not:

Code:

def quitKodiDialog():
        global quitKodiSetting
        processname = 'openbox'
        tmp = os.popen("ps -Af").read()
        proccount = tmp.count(processname)
        if quitKodiSetting == '2':
                log('quit setting: %s selected, asking user to pick' % quitKodiSetting)
                if proccount > 0:
                        if dialog.yesno('Steam Launcher', language(50073)):
                                quitKodiSetting = '0'
                        else:
                                quitKodiSetting = '1'
                else:
                        if dialog.yesno('Steam Launcher', 'Run with SteamOS compositor?'):
                                quitKodiSetting = '1'
                        else:
                                quitKodiSetting = '0'
        log('quit setting selected: %s' % quitKodiSetting)

[Dennisreneholm]

As it was a very fresh system, i didn't want to bother trying to fix it, so i started over

Now it works, however, i sometimes have to go into steam settings, and change the audio device, i got 2 devices called the exacl same thing, but only one of them works.

Any idea why that is?

[metheos]

Metheos, you can run kodi in its own session and use either steamcompmgr or openbox with compton using this method here http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=...pid1584693

Thanks, I think that will do it!

[metheos]

As it was a very fresh system, i didn't want to bother trying to fix it, so i started over

Now it works, however, i sometimes have to go into steam settings, and change the audio device, i got 2 devices called the exacl same thing, but only one of them works.

Any idea why that is?

I had a similar problem when I first started tackling it, I think they both said analog output or something like that. But once I manually defined the alsa device, as I described earlier, the audio has worked rock solid every time I launch steam. In fact, the audio menu in steam shows blank for all the entries, so apparently it's not trying to make any decisions about audio.

[Dennisreneholm]

Ahh okay, i might try that then!

I have exactly what you describe, 2 analog outputs to choose from.