RSS ticker

XBMC can display an RSS feed on the home screen of the default skin/interface (Confluence), as well as any other skin that supports RSS feeds. By default, the RSS news feed is taken from http://xbmc.org, but the feed can be changed to almost any RSS feed.

RSS ticker settings
The RSS ticker can be toggled on or off by going to Settings -> Appearance -> Skin -> Show RSS news feed

Below this setting one can also change the RSS news feed address.

Technical documentation for skinners


RSS control
The rss control is used for displaying scrolling RSS feeds from the internet in XBMC. You can choose the font, size, colour, location and the RSS feed to be displayed.


 * Example

Available tags and attributes
In addition to the default control tags, the following tags are available. Note that each tag is lower case only. This is important, as xml tags are case-sensitive.

RssFeeds.xml
The actual content of the RSS feed is defined in the RssFeeds.xml file stored in the user's profile. Here is an example :

As can be seen, each feedset has an id attribute – this is what we are referencing in the  attribute of the control. There can be more than one defined, and more than one per set. The 's must be escaped so that they're xml-safe (ie replace & with &amp; etc.). Each feed in the set runs through in the order they are defined.