Kodi addon for LaunchBox

[ksandersbna]

Greetings! I am trying to set this up but I having issues since the install. I have been trying to walk through these but this last one I am not sure about.

My environment is Windows 10, Kodi 21.2 (not windows app), Launchbox/BigBox (subscription).

I installed from zip file and changed the configuration to point to my Launchbox install directory.

I did not have AutoHotKey installed prior to this, installed AutoHotKey 2.0.

When I attempt to launch from Kodi, I was getting a scripting error initially "Error: Syntax error. Did you mean to use ":="? Text: llsrevision=105 Line: 13 File: I:\Games\LaunchBox\scripts\BigBoxLauncher-AHK.ahk The program will exit." I updated the script by changing the '=' to a ':='. It was able to launch and it asked if I wanted to update the user data scripts. I said yes and it basically started me over, lol. I made my change again and then said 'No' and receive this error. I am sure it's how I have this configured. I read through these forums but just not having any luck. Please advise and THANKS in advance!

[JoeViking245]

11 minutes ago, ksandersbna said:

I did not have AutoHotKey installed prior to this, installed AutoHotKey 2.0.

I don't anything about this plugin (or Kodi for that matter), but internally, LaunchBox uses AHK v1.1.  You may try uninstalling 2.0 and either install v1.1, or just use the one located in the /LaunchBox/ThirdParty/AutoHotkey/ folder.

[CoinTos]

9 minutes ago, ksandersbna said:

Greetings! I am trying to set this up but I having issues since the install. I have been trying to walk through these but this last one I am not sure about.

My environment is Windows 10, Kodi 21.2 (not windows app), Launchbox/BigBox (subscription).

I installed from zip file and changed the configuration to point to my Launchbox install directory.

I did not have AutoHotKey installed prior to this, installed AutoHotKey 2.0.

When I attempt to launch from Kodi, I was getting a scripting error initially "Error: Syntax error. Did you mean to use ":="? Text: llsrevision=105 Line: 13 File: I:\Games\LaunchBox\scripts\BigBoxLauncher-AHK.ahk The program will exit." I updated the script by changing the '=' to a ':='. It was able to launch and it asked if I wanted to update the user data scripts. I said yes and it basically started me over, lol. I made my change again and then said 'No' and receive this error. I am sure it's how I have this configured. I read through these forums but just not having any luck. Please advise and THANKS in advance!

Hi, the autohotkey script was written in AutoHotkey 1.x which was what LaunchBox included in it's install at the time of release. The addon would locate and use it's included autohotkey.exe to launch the ahk script. If Launchbox has updated to Autohotkey 2.0 (I am unable to check at the moment), I will have to rewrite the ahk script to 2.0. If you specified an autohotkey location in the option, remove it and it will use the autohotkey.exe from the Launchbox install. If Launchbox has updated to include Autohotkey 2.0 and it is failing, please install Autohotkey 1.x and point the advanced Autohotkey location option to that autohotkey.exe and the script will run.

[ksandersbna]

Thank you all! I went ahead and uninstalled AutoHotKey 2.0 and everything is working great. I did confirm that Launchbox has not updated to 2.0 that this was a user error. I think my initial problem was that I had pointed my Launchbox directory to the 'core' subfolder of LB and not just LB. Everything is working great and I'm able to go back and forth between Kodi and LB/BB. This is really awesome. Thanks again for walking me through this.