[Apple TV] Anyone got XBMC iTunes and iPhoto integration working on Apple TV?

[steve1977]

Now that I got XBMC nicely running on my ATV, I am considering the next step also integrating itunes and iphoto (leaving me with XBMC as the ultimative media machine).

Anyone has managed to get itunes- and iphotos-integration on ATV. If yes, how?

Many thanks!!!

[steve1977]

Still working on itunes and (more importanly) iphoto support for XBMC on ATV.

I have copied the plugins on the ATV and now I can see them on the ATV. The problem is that the itunes and iphoto libraries cannot be found now. Probably the reason is that they are on my mac mini and NOT on my Apple TV.

I am now trying to create a symlink back to my mac mini. Anyone more familiar with this and can point me in the right direction. The following doesnt work (but is probably just wrong code):

ln -s smb://username:password@192.168.1.100/users/username/music /users/frontrow/music

[jmarshall]

I doubt that will work, as the OS doesn't know about smb I don't think, and that URL format is an XBMC-ism :)

One thing that *might* work, at least for listing the files, is editting the script for the path to the itunes xml file. Open up the script .py files, and it should be reasonably easy to see where to edit it. A path such as the above one might work in this scenario, though it relies on a bunch of stuff, such as the virtual filesystem working and so on.

Even if this was to work, however, I doubt the files would actually stream, as the files themselves are not on the appletv, so there'd need to be some URL changing to convert to the appropriate smb paths. This would involve more python hackery.

Good luck!

Cheers,
Jonathan

[Gamester17]

Workaround to access iTunes Music database library is to use Firefly Media Server on your Mac, see: http://xbmc.org/forum/showthread.php?t=31683

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