using WPalchemy to output custom metabox from homepage template

Question

I am new to php and I am using wpalchemy to create a custom metabox. I want to output the info from the metabox on a template page, not inside a loop. I have tried the following to no avail per the documentation on wpAlchemys site. Side note I want to create a custom metabox with the ability to upload multiple images is wpalchemy a good starting point to do this.

<?php
    global $custom_metabox;
    $custom_metabox->the_meta();
    $custom_metabox->the_field('name');
    $custom_metabox->the_value();
?>

Answer 1

try specifying the ID of the post for which you need to get data from:

$custom_metabox->the_meta(101);