The Kingdom of Philtopia

When I first started using Rasbmc almost 2 years ago it had that standard Blue XBMC Confluence and since I was new to the whole XBMC thing in general it was still all shiny and fine in its default glory.

Then!

A month later my Pi did its little updates one reboot and all of a sudden I had this totally awesome Raspberry Pi inspired Confluence and my excitement was over 9000!!!!!!!!

THEN!!!

A few months later my SD card was corrupted and I had to reinstall and my famous Red Connie (what I will call the Rasbmc Confluence from now on) was gone and mentions of it were stricken from the universe!!

Whyyy ohh why

A year passed and suddenly I wanted Red Connie back and I found a forum thread where they did exactly that, patched it and brought it back. If you are running Gotham (13.x) it is as simple as ssh to your Pi and paste the following to the shell:

cd /home/pi
wget http://mirrors.arizona.edu/raspbmc/downloads/bin/xbmc/skin.confluence.raspbmc.zip
unzip skin.confluence.raspbmc.zip
cp -R /home/pi/.xbmc-current/xbmc-bin/share/xbmc/addons/skin.confluence /home/pi/.xbmc/addons
mv /home/pi/.xbmc/addons/skin.confluence /home/pi/.xbmc/addons/skin.confluence.raspbmc
cd /home/pi/.xbmc/addons/skin.confluence.raspbmc
sed -i 's/id="skin.confluence"/id="skin.confluence.raspbmc"/' addon.xml
sed -i 's/name="Confluence"/name="Confluence Raspbmc"/' addon.xml
cp -R /home/pi/skin.confluence.raspbmc/backgrounds /home/pi/.xbmc/addons/skin.confluence.raspbmc
cp /home/pi/skin.confluence.raspbmc/colors/defaults.xml /home/pi/.xbmc/addons/skin.confluence.raspbmc/colors/
cp /home/pi/skin.confluence.raspbmc/media/Textures.xbt /home/pi/.xbmc/addons/skin.confluence.raspbmc/media/
sudo rm -R /home/pi/skin.confluence.raspbmc
rm /home/pi/skin.confluence.raspbmc.zip

• Reboot
• Go into Settings > Appearance > Skin> Skin and select the new Confluence Rasbmc that appears.

Apparently Kodi (14.x XBMC and beyond…….) it doesn’t work so hot but the thread I followed has instructions for that if you so desire.

Link to original thread here