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In case any one was wondering, the xbmcwiki does
describe xbmc as dashboard very well...
Option 1 - Using the Team XBMC Shortcut.xbe (Recommended)
Team XBMC recently developed their own Shortcut tool. It comes in 2 ?flavours?:
* OpenXDK (source and pre-compiled binary available in SVN)
* MS XDK (only source available in SVN)
Download link to pre-compiled OpenXDK: Shortcut XBE.
Both versions work in the same manner:
1. Find out the filename of your current dashboard (i.e C:\evoxdash.xbe for the Evox dashboard): That is the dashboard your Xbox is booting.
2. Rename your current dashboard to an alternate bootable name. This will be used as a fallback if execution of the new shortcut fails. Consult the table below, or www.xbox-scene.com for details on your dash.
3. Download the XBMC Shortcut XBE from the link above and rename it to whatever the dash was named (usually evoxdash.xbe)
4. Upload the renamed Shortcut XBE (i.e. evoxdash.xbe) to where the old dash was (Usually the root of the C: drive). The Shortcut XBE is now effectively your dashboard(!)
5. Install XBMC as a regular application to somewhere on E: or F: (for example, E:\Apps\XBMC) (Instructions on how to install XBMC can be found under Installing XBMC as an Application)
6. Create a text file on your computer with the same name as your renamed Shortcut XBE, except with the extension .cfg instead of .xbe (i.e. evoxdash.cfg) and put the path to the installed XBMC\default.xbe inside it (eg. E:\Apps\XBMC\default.xbe)
7. Upload the text file you just created to the same place you uploaded ShortcutXBE to in step 4. You should now have two files in your boot dash location. If your previous dashboard was Evox, These files will be named evoxdash.xbe and evoxdash.cfg. The .xbe is the shortcut XBE you just uploaded, the .cfg is the text file containing a path to XBMCs default.xbe
8. Reboot
Ok then... this works. Guarenteed.
download thier shortcut.xbe
[url=https://xbmc.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/xbmc/trunk/XBMC/tools/ShortcutXBE/default.xbe][/url]
rename it whatever your dashboard is named
mine is E:/dashboard/evoxdash.xbe
rename evoxdash.xbe to evoxdash.xbe.bak
then rename the shortcut.xbe you downloaded(think its called default.xbe) to evoxdash.xbe
HAVE TO RENAME IT EXACTLY THE SAME AS YOUR CURRENT DASHDOARD
evoxdash.xbe is only an example. It is my dashboard.
next, make a new text document(notepad) and name it exoxdash.cfg(in my case)
in it, simply the path to default.xbe in XBMC folder
ex. F:\apps\XBMC\default.xbe
put the 2 files in the folder with your old dashboard.(that has been
renamed evoxdash.xbe.bak)my example was E:\dashboard\evoxdash.xbe
Reboot the machine, and your good to go.
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