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January 7, 2008
EntertainMac has been waiting for some developers to start developing some FrontRow 2 Plug-Ins. Sapphire was the first one, and with it recently being released as an OpenSource project, another developer, Garion911, has created a basic "Hello World" plug in and a MythTV Launcher. Both of the Plugin's are written completely in Python

Hello World
Start off by downloading the Hello World Application from garion.tzo.com.
To Install:
Uncompress the file.
Open a terminal
go into the directory you uncompressed the file to
type “python setup.py py2app”
Bunch of stuff flies across the screen
cd dist
cp FrontPython.frappliance /System/Library/CoreServices/Front Row.app/Contents/PlugIns
Restart Frontrow. You should now see the FrontPython plugin entry. Selecting it shows a helloworld message.


MythFrontEnd
This application will launch your MythFrontend Application, assuming it lives in your Applications Directory. When launched, MythFrontend is launched, and when you exit, it returns back to FrontRow. This application has already been updated and version 0.2 can be downloaded here.

This latest application can really be modified to launch whatever app you would like, including EyeTV. For developers out there looking to learn more, a Google Code Project has been established for the project.

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