XBMC and Steam

passey89 · 4 Mar 2013 at 12:36

Ive been using my HTPC for ages now and love it.

Running windows 7 and have it set to default to start XBMC on launch.

I now have a 7850 in it to play a few games via xbox controllers with the kids and wife.

At the moment I'm exiting XBMC and running steam (steam set to auto start in big picture mode) but I still have to click on the icon is there anyway whilst inside XBMC to launch Steam or the other way around?

Confused · 4 Mar 2013 at 12:45

I've been using Advanced Launcher to fire up the below AutoHotKey script.

(I set this up before Steam added the option to start Steam in Big Picture Mode, and when "Exiting" in Big Picture only exited Big Picture, and not Steam itself.)

The below AutoHotKey script opens Steam if it's not running, if it is, shows Big Picture mode, and when you exit Big Picture it closes Steam, and puts focus back to XBMC.

Code:

Process, Exist, Steam.exe 
if ErrorLevel 
Run, "steam://open/bigpicture" 
else 
Run, "C:\Games\Steam\Steam.exe" -bigpicture 
WinWait, Steam ahk_class CUIEngineWin32 
WinWaitClose, Steam ahk_class CUIEngineWin32 
Run, "C:\Games\Steam\Steam.exe" -shutdown

Just change the paths above to where your Steam.exe file is

passey89 · 4 Mar 2013 at 14:51

Cool thx will give it a go later

Confused said:
I've been using Advanced Launcher to fire up the below AutoHotKey script.

(I set this up before Steam added the option to start Steam in Big Picture Mode, and when "Exiting" in Big Picture only exited Big Picture, and not Steam itself.)

The below AutoHotKey script opens Steam if it's not running, if it is, shows Big Picture mode, and when you exit Big Picture it closes Steam, and puts focus back to XBMC.

Code:

Process, Exist, Steam.exe if ErrorLevel Run, "steam://open/bigpicture" else Run, "C:\Games\Steam\Steam.exe" -bigpicture WinWait, Steam ahk_class CUIEngineWin32 WinWaitClose, Steam ahk_class CUIEngineWin32 Run, "C:\Games\Steam\Steam.exe" -shutdown

Just change the paths above to where your Steam.exe file is

passey89 · 4 Mar 2013 at 16:35

found a slightly easier way.

Boot into steam instead of XBMC then add XBMC to the steam games list. just exit xbmc if I need to go back to steam.

Auto start in big picture mode as well and sorted.

thanks for the help

archerz · 4 Mar 2013 at 17:16

im tempted to do this!

passey89 · 4 Mar 2013 at 17:39

problem now is that due to im running on a SSD steam boots too fast before the network drivers are on so it gets error.

My way around this was to create a startup.bat to delay startup then boot steam but even with this steam will now not go into online mode its stuck in offline mode.

any ideas?

this is the code I was using

@Echo OFF

TIMEOUT /T 10
REM Total Delay = 10 seconds
START "" "C:\Games\Steam\Steam.exe" -bigpicture