I didn’t spend as much time today as I had hoped, but did make some progress.
The Plex “App Store” which while it isn’t really a store, is still pretty slick. Tried several plug-ins, but will just hit the highlights here. Couldn’t get Hulu plugin to work at all – probably wrong credentials. The pandora plug-in did work but feels hackish as the display is a cut section from safari viewing pandora. I ended up watch “Living With Father (1947)” while testing the iMovie plug-in. I noticed one burp that might have been network streaming and one cut section that is probably in the source material. The video quality was not the best, but most was probably due to the source. The National Geographic plug-in was a little disappointing in that the info boxes disappear before I could completely read them. Also not a lot of photos. I installed several others but haven’t given them a try yet.
I did put new batteries in my Gyration keyboard and that works well with the exception that the media keys don’t do anything and I haven’t found how to configure them yet.
Watched an iso movie from the NAS and the player was perfect. OK, it was a drama (Fat Man & Little Boy) so was not a stress test.
Still trying to move the media content from the old XBMC box to the NAS. I bumped a switch which lost power and interrupted the first copy. I then tried using cp -ur but that started copying the same files over. Ended up writing a ruby script to finish the sync with and that is still in process.
So the network reconfiguration is postponed until next weekend. But I did find that MacPorts has dnsmasq. So installed XCode so I could install MacPorts. I’ve installed dnsmasq but have not yet configured or started it.
Did some research on skins as I really miss being able to view the content by genre. There are a few skins that I need to give a try (Aeon, Alaska), but the really good news is there is a confluence skin in the works.
What’s really sweet is that after a day and a half, I’m feeling comfortable leaving the new system for the family to use for the week.
Have a great week!
