Making Xbmc Your Dashboard On A Softmoded Xbox, Using Krayzie´s UXE Installer v2.8 Options

[JayDee]

This is for those who have used one of Krayzie´s UXE/NDURE installers.

The once covered here are:

* Krayzie_007_UXE_Installer_Dutch-English_v2.8

* Krayzie_MA_UXE_Installer_Dutch-English_v2.8

and

* Krayzie_SC_UXE_Installer_Dutch-English_v2.8

(The same goes for the NDURE installers)


When you used this, or the one who softmoded the box for you, there where a option to install either Evo-X or Unleash-X.

But you know feel that you want to use XBMC as your dashboard...

What todo?!

This is actually very very simple!
Gain ftp/network access to the XBox, there are some lovly tutorials HERE

So...


Way one todo it:

FTP in to the XBox and goto E:\dashboard
In there you will see either a file named config.xml (Unleash-X) or evox.ini (Evo-X)
Ftp them to the pc as a backup and then just ftp over your build of XBMC from the pc to the xbox, (use a untouched xboxmediacenter.xml the first time), to E:\dashboard

You dont need to edit the <home> tag if anyone wonders about that, and when done reboot the XBox.

Way two of doing it: (c&p from blackdirs post from this thread)

Copy your e:\dashboard content to e:\apps\unleashx (this way you can still run unleashx as an app), then upload rename_me.xbe to e:\dashboard\default.xbe (Rename the rename_me.xbe to default.xbe)

Next upload the xbmc folder to e:\apps\xbmc


Congrats! You have just made XBMC into your dashboard!

Now edit the xboxmediacenter.xml to your likings, add smbshares etc etc.

This post has been edited by JayDee: Jan 19 2006, 05:01 PM

[gator2k83]

will this help things out any for us softmodders as running the xbmc as a dash vs an app overtop of unleashedx as a dash.. i noticed that when playing music or dvd's sometimes it gets a little jittery when i bring up the system info in xbmc i see that i have little to no ram left...

I have no problem running unleashed x as my dash and xbmc overtop it as an app. but my question is if i have it boot directly to xbmc as my main dash will that free up some memory... or does launching an app the same as coldbooting into xbmc ?