Ancalex's OpenELEC Add-ons

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This Add-ons can be used if you had downloaded the unofficial repository from addons.anxer.ro. To install repos you should consult this article from XBMC wiki. You must be careful to install the file that corresponds to your architecture. If you don’t know anymore which is yours, you can find it by connecting yourself through ssh and execute the next command

For ION.i386, Intel.i386, ATV.i386, Generic.i386, Generic_OSS.i386 use this file openelec.repo.ancalex.i386-2.1.zip, for ION.x86_64, Fusion.x86_64, Intel.x86_64, Ultra.x86_64 use this file openelec.repo.ancalex.x86_64-2.1.zip, and for RPi.arm download this file openelec.repo.ancalex.arm-2.1.zip.

Add-ons are the same for more builds because they are only either 32 bits or 64 bits (they only depend on the base linux system of the build). Do not forget to reboot your OpenELEC machine after install.

When you are running alsamixer and midnight commander, you will notice that the function keys not behave correctly. If you are using putty as ssh client you can make the keyboard settings look like in the screenshot and the function keys will work as expected.

alsamixer


Deprecated with new OpenELEC releseas [ >=3.0 ] - will be removed

Alsamixer is a graphical mixer for alsa (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture). It can be used exactly like in other linux distributions with only one difference: when you want to save the changes made with alsamixer issue this command.

There is no alsamixer Add-on for Raspberry-Pi because there is no alsa compiled with the RPi build.

bluez-tools


Deprecated with new OpenELEC releseas [ >=3.0 ] - will be removed

This Add-on is based on a GSoC 2010 project bluez-tools and provides a subset of command line tools (bt-adapter, bt-device, bt-input, bt-audio) for linux bluez using the D-bus interface of bluez. More info about this command line tools you can find at the project's page mentioned before and you can also read a short bluez-tools how-to for using this Add-on with OpenELEC. ‎

bt-gui


Deprecated with new OpenELEC releseas [ >=3.0 ] - will be removed

This Add-on provides a graphical inteface for the command line tools from bluez-tools Add-on. It is for the first time when I am programming in python so please be gentle with me

mc


Midnight Commander (mc) is a console application with a text user interface. It is a clone of Norton Commander so the main interface uses two panels for displaying the file system. File(s), directorie(s) can be selected by using the arrow keys, the insert key is used to select file(s) and the function keys are used for renaming, editing and copying file(s) and directorie(s). Some features like virtual file system (vfs) are not implemented for this mc build. The main advantage of mc over XBMC’s internal file manager is the fact that mc can be used remotely from the ssh connection.

mksquashfs


It is true that you can compile your own OpenELEC build from scratch after you made customization(s) how you want. For this you will need a rather fast computer with Linux installed (I'm using ubuntu). The building process (depending on your hardware) can last from three hours too many hours. But if you only want to make some minor changes in your system like editing some config files, changing passwords and so, with the help of this addon and using your own OpenELEC system you can make your customization(s) and the "build" process can last from aprox 15 minutes (ION board with dual-core Atom and 1 GB RAM) to 40 minutes (Raspberry-Pi). If everything is working as it should, you can report back to the dev team here Issue Reports - Feature requests maybe the changes can be included in the official builds for others to enjoy your work.

mksquashfs Add-on how-to