[TheWaterbug]

Presently I am using XBMC on my jailbroken Apple TV 2 for exactly one function--Amazon Prime Streaming via Bluecop's repository.

For everything else I'm using the native Apple TV interface.

I'm trying to make this more wife-friendly, and she's not going to grok the idea of (effectively) and entirely different OS and UI.

Is there a way to have XBMC launch directly into a specific Add-On, e.g. bypass the main menu and go directly to Video: Add-ons: Amazon?

I'd also want the reverse, so that if she exits from the Amazon add-on, XBMC quits entirely and returns her to the Apple TV interface.

Is this something a skin can do? Or is it deeper than that? Thanks!

[branlr]

No, not really a *real* way to do this, as far as I know.

However, there should be some way to achieve what you want.... perhaps, as you said, through skinning. I do know that some scripts, such as recently added, are set to run on startup--I believe via the skin. recently added, and possibly nextaired scripts are run at startup by default by some skins. I would investigate how this is done first, and try it. Bare in mind however that the scripts are different in that they are not GUI's--they run in the background to provide data for the skin to access.

If nothing else, you might be able to script something using something like autohotkey/autoit... Something like, map a key to run the xbmc script you want to run, and then use an autohotkey script (or whatever) to launch xbmc, wait a moment, and then send that keystroke. Then, reduce the wait time as necessary to make it as seemless as possible.

All that I can say for sure is that it shouldn't be too hard to hack something like this together, but you will need to research it a bit and figure out something that works for you based on your own experimentation... I have never heard of anyone doing this before, and I have spent a significant time reading these forums--so I'm afraid you are going to be on your own.

If you figure it out, you should totally update this thread with how you did it!

[jhsrennie]

You can do this by creating an autoexec.py. If you create a Python script called autoexec.py and put it in your userdata folder XBMC will run this script when it starts. If you use the following script:

Code:

import xbmc

xbmc.executebuiltin("ActivateWindow(10025,\"plugin://plugin.video.amazon\")")

then when you start XBMC it will immediately open the Amazon add-on.

NB the number 10025 in the ActivateWindow function might be different on your system. To check what this number should be add the amazon add-on to your Favourites, then look in the userdata folder and open favourites.xml in your favourite text editor. You'll see the correct number there.

JR