New Front Row plugins for Snow Leopard!
Those of you upgrading to Snow Leopard will discover that my previous plugins for Front Row won’t work.
The good news is that I have new plugins that work in Snow Leopard. These plugins have been completely rewritten using Objective-C (which I have been wanting to do) and are no longer based on the FrontPython project. This should lead to more stable code that is a little easier for me to improve.
The bad news is that they are still a little buggy. They should launch your program fine but will most likely not be able to return to FrontRow when you exit the launched program. There are probably some other bugs too.
Even though they still need a little work Snow Leopard comes out today so I figured I should get something out. These work in Leopard too (I haven’t tried them in Tiger).
- Boxee Plugin for Snow Leopard & Leopard
- Plex Plugin for Snow Leopard & Leopard
- Hulu Plugin for Snow Leopard & Leopard
If you are still running Leopard and want to use the previous versions they are still available using the links in the original blog posts.
Comments
First off I want to thank you for the FrontRow plugins and updating them to work in Snow Leopard so quickly. I recently bought a mini and am using it as a MythTV frontend. In Leopard I was using a plugin for FrontRow using the FrontPython SDK to launch MythTV. This plugin no longer works and I was wondering if you would be willing to share the source for your plugins so I could modify to launch MythTV. I would be willing to host the plugin myself (and give credit) or provide it to you to host here.
Please email me and let me know.
Thanks,
Jason
Any chance of modifying your plugin to launch MythFrontend.app?
Awesome, great to have these plugins back. Sorry about the double post back there.
Could you make a version that switches to EyeTV? Thanks for the other plugins!
I would also appreciate a plugin to launch EyeTv now that Front Python based plugins no longer work in Snow Leopard. It really makes little difference whether EyeTv returnes to Front Row when quitting, so that possible bug would not be a problem.
Thanks for the work you’ve done for this plugin! Works fine for me apart for the bugs you already mentioned. I would also appreciate a plugin to launch EyeTv from Front Row..
Hi. I just downloaded both the EyeTV and Hulu plugin for FrontRow. The Hulu plugin works great. However, I’m having problems with the EyeTV. I get an error message “Unable to load EyeTV” message. Can you please tell me what this means? I am using a Mac Mini with Snow Leopard and EyeTV 3.1.2 (5236). Thanks in advance.
Most likely that means that EyeTV is not located where the plugin expects it to be. The plugin expects it to live at /Applications/EyeTV.app. If it is somewhere else you will either need to move it or make a symbolic link from the expected location to the real location.
BIG thank you for your work on this.
It would be really awesome with support to launch XBMC.
Cheers mate!
PyeTV has been updated to 2.0 which works with Snow Leopard.
Hi,
Fantastic work with these plugins. I would really appreciate an XBMC version also, especially since version 9.11 came out a few days ago.
Jerome
Hi,
Just a quick question. Are you still working on your Snow Leopard plugin for Plex?
Your previous plugin for Leopard worked great as it would load Plex from Front Row and then when I quit Plex it would return to back to Front Row.
Your current plugin for Plex launches fine from Front Row, but when I quit Plex it just takes me back to the desktop. Are you working on a fix for this? I hope so.
Thanks.
Yes, I’m still working on them when I get time. That is a bug I hope to resolve sometime soon.
Just found your blog but have everything running and tweaked just right.
The only thing that is not essential but would be nice is to get the emulators plugin, (rss news reader, weather or Dashboard) for front row running.
Any ideas?
I’m not familiar with that plugin. Do you have a link?
Could you make a plugin for Pandora??
Hello there and fantastic work! I would love to ask for your help however! I love Front Row more so than all the other media players out there for mac, but just one thing. I would love to design a plugin (however this is something beyond me!) I would love to separate my TV Shows and Movies, to HD TV Shows and HD Movies as well. So to have a list in Front Row as “HD Movies, Movies, HD TV Shows, TV Shows, Music ect. you get the picture I am sure. What would be fantastic is to produce a plug in for “HD Movies and “HD TV Shows” and get them to point to a folder saying “HD Movies” and HD TV Shows” in my Users Folder. That way I could have normal movies that I have imported in iTunes, and have HD Movies that are in an HD Movies folder and have the two separate! is this at all possible? I know lots of other people would like it, and I would be willing to donate more than a few Pizzas! lol
Thanks kindly anyhow!
I won’t say it’s impossible but it would require more work than my current plugins. Unfortunately that isn’t something that I have time for now. What you could do is keep your hd movies in ~/Movies/HD Movies and your hd tv shows in ~/Movies/HD TV Shows. Then in Front Row you select Movies->Movies Folder->HD Movies or Movies->Movies Folder->HD TV Shows. It’s not as nice (especially since you’re selecting Movies to get to tv shows) but it gives you the separation. Sorry I don’t have a better solution.