(2015-01-14, 09:25)teeedubb Wrote: @Dark_Slayer I havent used either Kino Console and/or Limelight but they sound interesting - Im f the same frame of mind as you, Im thinking about turning the gaming htpc into a gaming server to replace my exisiting server and getting a low powered pc to use as a front end.
Well, I haven't tried Kino yet, but I installed Limelight and WOW was it easy
I setup my previously OE 5 intel G1610 (16GB USB Flash boot drive) with Kodibuntu/Steam per your instructions post. Total time spent was about 1hr, but over 20 minutes of that was me scratching my head and not understanding that I was booting to Lubuntu instead of Openbox. Another 20 minutes or so was a combination of research and not realizing that the user name was kodibuntu instead of the user name I entered at the login screen (so I drudged up a keyboard/mouse and only got to use SSH towards the end after realizing what the correct username was)
It works nice, sleeps/resumes, idles around 12W (using a picoPSU) and hovers around 16W during playback/streaming.
After just going through everything, I didn't spot much to modify on your Kodibuntu+Steam post . . . just a couple things
Code:
sudo mv /usr/share/xsessions/openbox.desktop.dis /usr/share/xsessions/openbox.desktop
The actual location is now /usr/share/xsessions/hidden/openbox.desktop.dis
And
Code:
mkdir -p $HOME/.config/openbox/ && echo "export DISPLAY=:0" >> $HOME/.config/openbox/autostart.sh && echo "xsetroot -solid black &" >> $HOME/.config/openbox/autostart.sh && echo "/usr/bin/xbmc &" >> $HOME/.config/openbox/autostart.sh && chmod +x $HOME/.config/openbox/autostart.sh
Would be fine without the export Display=:0 portion (as leetpeet showed me, after copying his autostart I had a blackscreen with just the xsetroot portion)
Also, there's the /usr/bin/xbmc portion that should simply change xbmc to kodi, so all in all it should work with
Code:
mkdir -p $HOME/.config/openbox/ && echo "xsetroot -solid black &" >> $HOME/.config/openbox/autostart.sh && echo "/usr/bin/kodi &" >> $HOME/.config/openbox/autostart.sh && chmod +x $HOME/.config/openbox/autostart.sh
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Now to the nexus player
Setup took about 5 minutes :p though not perfect yet ~ flashing ring of death on x360 controller
Limelight is actually already "leanback" ready, so it installs right from the play store. If you have a USB OTG cable, you can plug in the wireless 360 controller and limelight picks it up just fine (not tried bluetooth yet)
Aside -- since the NP supports HDMI-CEC, I'm going to end up rooting it and mapping a PS3 dualshock to it with the sixaxis app. This f's up the standard remote since the old PS3 controllers need some kind of bizarre bluetooth mod, but as I'm using the TV remote through CEC (or Yatse) I can live without the low-quality Asus remote anyway (at least until someone brilliant integrates the voice search / commands)
Onto the more interesting . . . . Limelight works through the Nvidia Game Stream protocol, though they must have reverse engineered it and made it work 100x better than the shield's built-in capability. I don't have a huge steam library (only 13 games) but I have all the batmans for example. On Geforce's "Approved Game List" only Arkham City and Arkham Origins are supported. However, not only does Limelight pick up Asylum, it adds "Steam" as well so you can just launch Steam BPM for any games it doesn't "scan" for you.
The default "GeForce Experience" game scan kind of sucks since it only supports their "approved game list" and if you are using Limelight you can just skip this altogether because Limelight's scan is much better. Then there's essentially Steam BPM sitting in there if that's what you prefer as well. I just played Crysis 3 and Mirror's Edge on my Nexus Player
Just to test a little, since I already had a USB OTG cable I went with the X360 wireless controller and still had the flashing ring of death
Between Kodi and Limelight already both supporting "Leanback" and showing up in the stock launcher "Apps" section, there's not much more to ask out of the thing. Also, Kodi can launch limelight, and I get cast built in
Kind of in an Android Nirvana right now, plus it uses 5W or less
Downside to limelight is the Nvidia requirement, but Kino may be a possibility if that's your predicament
