Limelight Openelec

Collection of scripts to run limelight in openelec on raspberry pi.

Features

• Script to start a session from kodi and restart kodi after finishing session
• Script to resume a running session
• All scripts automatically start a script to monitor cec during session and kill java on certain keypress to go back to kodi
• Keybinding for wired xbox360 controller
• Keyboard and Mouse are working thanks to a hack with screen command, no input specification for limelight needed

Instructions

1. Install Openelec
2. Add screen and commands addons
3. Download Java and extract
4. Download Limelight Embedded Copy it to /storage/downloads/limelight directory
5. Extract these scripts to /storage/downloads/limelight directory
6. Make symbolic link /storage/downloads/limelight/java to java binary You can use other directories by editing script settings
7. In Kodi add limelight_720_60.py and other start files to commands addon For easier access place commads addon to favorites
8. Install xboxdrv to /storage/downloads/xboxdrv
   Binary xboxdrv from debian needs some libraries from debain armhf build which are not part of openelec put them in /storage/downloads/xboxdrv after download. Here is a list of needed files and packages which contain them

Symlink	File	Deb-Package
	xboxdrv	xboxdrv_0.8.5-1+b1_armhf.deb
libdbus-glib-1.so.2	libdbus-glib-1.so.2.2.2	libdbus-glib-1-2_0.102-1_armhf.deb
libX11.so.6	libX11.so.6.3.0	libx11-6_1.6.2-3_armhf.deb
libXau.so.6	libXau.so.6.0.0	libxau6_1.0.8-1_armhf.deb
libxcb.so.1	libxcb.so.1.1.0	libxcb1_1.10-3+b1_armhf.deb
libXdmcp.so.6	libXdmcp.so.6.0.0	libxdmcp6_1.1.1-1+b1_armhf.deb

9. Pair Limelight with your pc
10. Setup desktop streaming by adding following "Game" to GFE in Windows
    Name Desktop , Command C:\Windows\System32\mstsc.exe , Folder C:\Windows\System32

Notes

When started from kodi limelight does not have a console and this prevents for some reason keyboard and mouse from working. To solve this we are using screen command in python starter scripts to fake a console

In the script there are a lot of sleep commands. Those are crude hacks to get the timing right so that kodi does not restart to early and cec stop working

To change the cec exit key, stop kodi and start cec-client, press your favorite key and look for the output. Change killoncec.py accordingly