2011-09-19, 20:49
Hello again,
After some long hours of searching I finally found an older version of the iOS XBMC nightlies that I was recommended to downgrade to. I now run the 2011-08-27 nightly (instead of 2011-09-05) on my ATV2 in hopes of getting proper JSON functionality to get my libraries to show up. Problem was the "official" page for nightlies only keep the latest 10 days or so and I since I was told to get a nightly from before september I was out of luck. I searched ALOT of unofficial sites and finally found what seems to be a good pre-september build over here in case someone else needs to downgrade: http://xctechs.info/files/latest_082711_atv2.deb
This is what happened...
0. I downgraded XBMC to the 110827 build.
1. I uninstalled Constellation and reinstalled, 1.42, added my host and waited...
2. As soon as the lights turned green, takes like 30 secs for JSON to light up, the app crashed.
3. I restarted the app and it instantly crashed again.
4. I restarted again and now the app didn't crash... Dashboard shows 0 items in all categories. I sat idle and waited for 5 mins but no updates on Dashboard.
5. I click the movie library and YES - it's there! It's in the process of updating I suppose. When returning to the dashboard it reports correct number of items in all categories!
WeeEEEeEEeeeEEe! I'm so happy now (and a paying user) ! I understand you are all working hard and it doesn't become any easier when XBMC nightlies constantly changes the "rules" of how to communicate. I can only hope for an active community around the Constellation app and an active Development team to continue supporting changes in XBMC.
I would suggest some sort of "newbie" forum though that CLEARLY states what version of XBMC nightlies that are fully supported so that people don't have to go through all the problems I did Also, I suggest implementing some sort of progress indicator when the library is updating - like for the first time after installing the app.
Again, Great App - Keep up the good work!
After some long hours of searching I finally found an older version of the iOS XBMC nightlies that I was recommended to downgrade to. I now run the 2011-08-27 nightly (instead of 2011-09-05) on my ATV2 in hopes of getting proper JSON functionality to get my libraries to show up. Problem was the "official" page for nightlies only keep the latest 10 days or so and I since I was told to get a nightly from before september I was out of luck. I searched ALOT of unofficial sites and finally found what seems to be a good pre-september build over here in case someone else needs to downgrade: http://xctechs.info/files/latest_082711_atv2.deb
This is what happened...
0. I downgraded XBMC to the 110827 build.
1. I uninstalled Constellation and reinstalled, 1.42, added my host and waited...
2. As soon as the lights turned green, takes like 30 secs for JSON to light up, the app crashed.
3. I restarted the app and it instantly crashed again.
4. I restarted again and now the app didn't crash... Dashboard shows 0 items in all categories. I sat idle and waited for 5 mins but no updates on Dashboard.
5. I click the movie library and YES - it's there! It's in the process of updating I suppose. When returning to the dashboard it reports correct number of items in all categories!
WeeEEEeEEeeeEEe! I'm so happy now (and a paying user) ! I understand you are all working hard and it doesn't become any easier when XBMC nightlies constantly changes the "rules" of how to communicate. I can only hope for an active community around the Constellation app and an active Development team to continue supporting changes in XBMC.
I would suggest some sort of "newbie" forum though that CLEARLY states what version of XBMC nightlies that are fully supported so that people don't have to go through all the problems I did Also, I suggest implementing some sort of progress indicator when the library is updating - like for the first time after installing the app.
Again, Great App - Keep up the good work!