2013-01-13, 08:35
Getting Pseudotv to work with your network smb share on Raspberry Pi.
This might be an obvious fix for some, but It took me a while to figure this out of my own.
I was getting this error for Pseudo TV on the Raspberry Pi.
"Unable to populate channels. Please verify that you have scraped media in your library and that you have properly configured channels. "
And from the XBMC logs I was getting this error:
From the logs its pretty clear more or less what the problem is. It can't connect to my PC. Instead of inviting the PseudoTV over to my house for a BBQ, lets bring the BBQ over to Pseudo's backyard!
Adding your SMB share as a media source and giving everybody permission is not enough for this to work. You need to mount it so that PseudoTV thinks its local directory. We need to mount the SMB share, we also need to make it so that it mounts every time you restart your raspberry pi. I used this website to help me setup an autostart script.
I hope this helps people who are having trouble with Pseudo TV and getting it to work with the network.
This might be an obvious fix for some, but It took me a while to figure this out of my own.
I was getting this error for Pseudo TV on the Raspberry Pi.
"Unable to populate channels. Please verify that you have scraped media in your library and that you have properly configured channels. "
And from the XBMC logs I was getting this error:
Quote:21:11:00 T:2925937760 NOTICE: -->Python Interpreter Initialized<--
21:11:03 T:3042983936 ERROR: ClearBlock: Trying to clear non existent block /storage/.xbmc/addons/Jasonra-XBMC-PseudoTV-acca9ee
21:11:14 T:2925937760 ERROR: script.pseudotv-Connection: Couldn't connect to 192.168.1.150 with the name BlahPC, /
21:11:14 T:2925937760 ERROR: script.pseudotv-Connection: Couldn't connect to 192.168.1.150 with the name BlahPC, guest /
21:11:14 T:2925937760 ERROR: script.pseudotv-ChannelList: Unable to get information about channel 1
From the logs its pretty clear more or less what the problem is. It can't connect to my PC. Instead of inviting the PseudoTV over to my house for a BBQ, lets bring the BBQ over to Pseudo's backyard!
Adding your SMB share as a media source and giving everybody permission is not enough for this to work. You need to mount it so that PseudoTV thinks its local directory. We need to mount the SMB share, we also need to make it so that it mounts every time you restart your raspberry pi. I used this website to help me setup an autostart script.
Quote:#!/bin/shThis is an example of the type of script you will use. Again, use the website as a guide, change what you need.
(sleep 30; \
mount -t cifs -o username=guest,rw //192.168.1.150/Media /storage/videos; \
)&
I hope this helps people who are having trouble with Pseudo TV and getting it to work with the network.