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Just tried this out, and it worked, with one glitch.

Since I run in offline mode, it prompts to switch to online upon steam start up. This isn't a deal breaker, but ideally I would like to avoid seeing that.

Is it possible to have steam (not big picture) running in the background, then when the steam is launched from xbmc, it switches to big picture, then when leaving big picture (to return to desktop), it starts up xbmc again?

This way takes less time to start steam bigpicture too.

Yeah I got that popup too, not sure if there is anything that can be done about it. Reading up on offline mode I saw some info about editing steam's cfg/ini files to always force offline mode, maybe that will prevent the popup, but I have not tested it. AFAIK there is no command line switch to force offline mode.

If steam desktop mode (DM) is open when the add on is launched it will kill xbmc and toggle steams BPM - probably best to autostart steam DM at a os level for this. As for restarting xbmc when you leave steam BPM for steam DM I'm not really sure how to do this automatically as I don't know of any way to tell that steam DM has been launched from steam BPM. Maybe adding a .bat file as a launcher to steam that will toggle steam DM and launch xbmc would work - I'll look into this. You can manually start xbmc after switching to steam DM - I have a button on my remote that kills and restarts xbmc using event ghost and it causes no issues if I kill/restart xbmc while steam has been launched via the add on.

You're using a non standard install location for steam right? How about for xbmc? Did you use version 0.2.2? Can you please post your version of windows and the locations of steam + xbmc as in steam-launch.bat?