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 an 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 you computer - or simply press CTRL F2 and login with you user details.

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

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

3 - Ensure file permissions allow web server to write to MFP's folder. CHMOD recursively.

sudo chmod 777 /var/www/ -R

4 - Browse to MFP and you shall be greeted with a server check to confirm all dependencies are met. If so, you will be allowed to continue to MFP's settings page to configure it according to your setup.

5 - Done!

Optional

A.1 - 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/sbpcache

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 Recommendations
• Transmission
• uTorrent
• JDownloader (WIP)

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