[syborg]

Hi guys, works great... well kind of

When it launches I can't seem to change channel. Using the android app or the keyboard I can hear the XBMC main menu scrolling in the background/minimised so the focus isn't on the skygo video window. If I enable the cursor I can change the channel that way. I've never used advanced launcher before so I'm probably doing something stupid.

Also I'm in Ireland and it works here fine too, although the channel list may be different here (I'm not sure). That brings me on to another thought. Could this be modified to launch something like BBC/ITV/Channel 4/Hulu in chrome? I ask becuase I used hola unblocker (http://hola.org/unblocker.html) to view all of of these within chrome. They're not normally available in Ireland. If it were possible to simply launch the video content of these pages in chrome with hola unlocker installed via advanced launcher I'm sure you would have a massive add on!

Ok the Skygo app works on top of the XBMC giving the look of working within XBMC. The android remote your using will be using a protocol to talk to XBMC directly - Json-PC (I think). This why you can hear XBMC in the background because when you press a button on your remote it only has an effect on XBMC not your entire system. For instance if you don't have XBMC open and press buttons nothing happens.
Anyway back to your issues, if you want to change channels you need to either use a keyboard or a remote that functions like a keyboard. This usually means installing a small server program on your computer that translates the presses on your remote to keyboard presses that interact with your whole system. I suggested hippo-remote for iOS I think the android equivalent is called valence.
These remotes work in Xbmc the same way a keyboard works in Xbmc, some of these remotes have skins/profile that look more like the dedicated remotes. I know hippo does - I will try the android one tonight see what's its like!

Now to change the channel you have 2 options.
First you can press backspace on your keyboard or keyboard emulating remote and this take you back to the EPG and from there select a new channel.
Alternatively, you can press 5 on keyboard and a menu will pop up and select a channel from there again you will need to use a keyboard or a remote that emulates a keyboard.

For Ireland, if it working ok then I will need some info about the channel list it should (i hope) be a pretty straight forward new channel list but if you are using the EPG it matches based on name so it should matter too much.

Regarding bbc, itv etc, there are already apps for these within Xbmc that some might work with a proxy! They are already up and running and witkingbit would be duplicating a lot things. As I have mentioned if people are interested I will write a guide to adding UK and US live free to air channels to the EPG too?

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What's about having a single interface (EPG) to access both sky and TV catchup?
Is it even possible?
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It's pretty straight forward to setup - ill put together instructions over the next couple days!