#MediaFrontPage

MediaFrontPage is a HTPC Web Program Organiser. Your HTPC utilises a number of different programs to do certain tasks. What MediaFrontPage does is creates a user specific web page that will be your nerve centre for everything you will need.

MediaFrontPage can make use of, but is not limited to, the following projects:

• Sick Beard
• CouchPotato
• SabNZBd+
• SubSonic
• Transmission (WebGUI)
• uTorrent (WebGUI)
• XBMC (WebGUI)
• JSON
• JQUERY

Dependencies

MediaFrontPage requires aa Apache/PHP Webserver to be running on the machine or network and must have PHP Curl configured correctly.

Bugs

This project is always being updated by like minded individuals and bugs will exist. If you find a bug, please report it at [XBMC Support Thread] (http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?t=8330), and include as much information as possible.

Install

###Ubuntu Commandline/XBMCLive

1 - SSH or Telnet into XBMCLive - or simply press CTRL F2 and login with you user details.

2 - Clone the Git to the required directory, XBMCLive = /var/www.

sudo git clone git://github.com/gugahoi/mediafrontpage.git "/var/www"

3 - Open default-config.php with gedit or nano and edit appropriately

sudo nano /var/www/default-config.php

4 - Rename default-config.php to config.php

sudo mv /var/www/default-config.php /var/www/config.php

5 - Rename default-layout.php to layout.php

sudo mv /var/www/default-layout.php /var/www/layout.php

6 - Ensure file permissions allow web server to write to layout.php eg use chmod

sudo chmod 777 /var/www/layout.php

7 - Install PHP-Curl

sudo apt-get install php5-curl

Optional

8 - Sickbeard image cache to speed up image loading times.

a) Create a folder named sbpcache

sudo mkdir /var/www/sbpcache

b) Give MFP write permissions to the Cache folder

sudo chmod 777 /var/www/spbcache

List of available Widgets 5th May 2011

• XBMC Control
• XBMC Library
• Coming Episodes
• Hard Drive Status
• Now Playing
• RSS Feed
• SabNZBd Status
• NZB Search
• TrakT Last Watched
• Transmission
• uTorrent
• JDownloader (WIP)

There is an Example widget inside the Widget folder that gives an idea on how to create your own.