Contents. 1 What is it? PlexBMC is a collection of addons which integrates an XBMC frontend with a backend. The project was started by the developer hippojay, and continued by pecinko, wickning1, and magnesium. For discussion, questions, and reporting problems visit the official forum thread located. 2 Installation 2.1 Requirements.

XBMC Frodo or Gotham. (Gotham preferred.). Plex Media Server (recent version). (For PleXBMC Helper) HTTP Server enabled in XBMC (Settings Services Webserver Allow control of XBMC via HTTP) If you had PleXBMC installed previously by another method, it might be a good idea to uninstall before setting it up this way 2.2 Installation sources Repository (recommended). Download the PlexBMC add-on repository from here:. Install this into XBMC (System Add-ons Install from zip file). Go to Add-ons Get Add-ons PlexBMC Add-ons for XBMC.

PlexBMC is a set of two add-ons. PlexBMC provides the main access to content.

Enable it in Video, Music, or Picture (you only need to enable in one location). (This is required.). PlexBMC Helper allows you to control XBMC from a Plex remote (such as on mobile device or the web).

Essentially it causes PlexBMC to appear just like a Plex Home Theater instance. (This is optional, but highly recommended.). Once the add-ons are enabled, you can update to new releases simply by updating your add-ons within XBMC. Manual Releases of PleXBMC and PleXBMC Helper are available on github, at these links:.

(PleXBMC). (PleXBMC Helper) Download the zip of the version you'd like to install, and 'install from zip file' in XBMC.

Installation this way won't allow for automatic updates. 2.3 Skins PleXBMC can work with any skin. It will appear as a video add-on in your skin menu. However, we recommend using a PleXBMC compatible skin for complete integration.

Currently the two best supported PleXBMC-enabled skins are Amber and Arctic: Zephyr. These skins can be installed from the standard xbmc.org repository. Once installed, select 'Go PLEX' from the Home Screen (scroll to Settings, select 'Go PLEX'). 2.4 Unsupported skins.

( XBMC 12/FRODO only ) Activate by selecting 'Go Plex' on the home screen 3 Features 3.1 PleXBMC Addon PleXBMC supports all the standard functions that an official Plex client offers. Such as:. Browse, play and resume media in Plex Media Server sections.

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For discussion of those add-ons, feel free to visit. The primary fork of Sickbeard is aimed more at Usenet, not torrents. Flexget is an option for you as well, since you already have a torrent client. I use Flexget and Deluge with custom RSS feeds from various (mostly private) torrent sites. Flexget can rename and sort into whatever file structure you wish. I have it sorting TV shows into TVShows-Showname-Season X folders and XBMC points to the root directory of this partition for TV shows. Flexget downloads the torrent, kicks it into deluge, then removes the torrent when it reaches a specified ratio.

I barely have to touch it except to add/remove shows and that can even be automated by using custom lists from trakt.tv. Short answer would be 'No' Per the - Unlike other XBMC distributions, OpenELEC isn't based on Ubuntu, Debian or Arch - in fact, it's not based on any distribution. Instead, OpenELEC has been built from scratch specifically to act as a media center. This means it can be streamlined to certain hardware and only needs to include the packages absolutely required, making OpenELEC as streamlined as possible. In addition, OpenELEC is designed to be managed as an appliance - it can automatically update itself, is managed almost entirely from within XBMC and boots in seconds. You never need to see a management console or have Linux knowledge to use it.

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I have a machine running Ubuntu Server in my office for the set up i outlined above. The media is shared via nfs to my AppleTV Gen1 running CrystalBuntu in the living room.