[styxit]

I have 32 bit Windows 7, am I not going to be able to install PIL?

I am also curious as to where the HTPC Manager folder goes

Yes, You can install PIL. Just need to find the correct precompiled binary, or install it yourself

The htpc-manager folder can be located anywhere on your system. If you would like to run Htpc Manager, from the commandline; "cd" to you directory and run python Htpc.py

Am I missing something? Raspbmc is currently using XBMC 12.2 I believe. Is this too 'new' for HTPC Manager?

There were no big changes made in the 12.2 version. Over here it works fine. Dit you enable the API from within xbmc?

Question though: Is there an auto-update feature? Or a way to update from the web interface? Or is that manual at this point? I downloaded the zip and am running Htpc.py on Ubuntu, and when I "Check for updates" I get:

In app updating not supported. Git-command not found, or you are ahead of the master branch.

This error is shown when the git-command can not be found on your system, or if you have made any changes to the Htpc Manager code yourself.

git for windows installed and in path, but its not working.

Auto update is currently broken on windows. As mentioned before, there is already an issue for this. https://github.com/styxit/HTPC-Manager/issues/2 On linux and Osx it works, but not yet flawless.


PIL
A lot of users experience problems getting the images from xbmc to work. This is due to the PIL requirement. PIL is a python image library that takse care of resizing the images from xbmc. Resizing was done so the thumbanils load quickly, without unnecessary large image downloads.

For those who could not get PIL to work, we made it optional. If you do not have PIL installed, the fullscale images will be show and resized by your browser. Note that this will have big impact on the load time for several pages. So it is highly recommended to try and install PIL. Follow the install guide at http://htpc.io


In other news: Join the Htpc Manager irc channel on freenode.net #htpc-manager
We can help you with installation problems, feature requests, and maybe even PIL setup.