XBOX

While troubleshooting what I thought were DNS related issues I found out some great info about Xbox Media Center.

I have always had problems with clock loops and the system defaulting to July 3 2003. Upon review I noticed I had set the gateway incorrectly 192.168.1.100 instead of 192.168.0.100. Which would explain why in the Evox it would fark up but display correcty with XBMC.

I began reviewing my network settings inside XBMC and decided to try using my own nameserver. Everything worked fine I rebooted and used the Evox dash to copy over a few more files and I filled up the HD. XBMC would start up just fine then freeze after a few seconds. I changed the logging output to Debug to see all messages however it wasn't halting after it setup the network. It seemed "idle" even with the network turned off and RSS feeds off.

I decided that it must've been the network settings (DNS I switched from my ISP to my own) I changed however these cannot be changed in the XboxMediaCenter.xml. After some Googling I found out that settings.xml inside of the E:\TDATA\0face008 folder contains the actual meat that XBMC uses.

I didn't review the entire file just the Network portion. Importantly the Assignment option defaults to 0 which pulls over information from the dashboard. Assignment 1 is DHCP and Assignment 2 is Manual (allowing the following Gateway and DNS to be read and set).

Long story short, to make adjustments look in the E:\TDATA\0face008\settings.xml file.