Assuming that you have already JB’ed, and you already have the akward repo installed…. $ echo “deb http://mirrors.xbmc.org/apt/atv2 ./” > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/xbmc.list $ apt-get update $ apt-get -y install org.xbmc.xbmc-atv2 It will install and reboot Lowtide……
Yearly Archives: 2011
AppleTV 2 and DFU
Don’t try and use one of the old white remotes. It just won’t work. I found out the hard way when I misplaced my metal remote and wanted to JB my ATV2. The white ones will control the ATV2 fine, but they will not let it enter DFU…
PowerMac G5 and LACP
I’ve been playing around recently with backups, trying to get them going again for my data. I’m moving the backups to my oldest Mac, a G5 Metal Tower. I purchased a gig ethernet card for it and since it comes with built-in gig I wanted to setup LACP with it. LACP will bond the two…
Plex vs. XMBC on AppleTV
So now that XMBC is available for AppleTV2 it’s time to compare it to Plex. I’ve played around with them for the past few days and can say that: Plex is worth the extra complexity. I’ve been told (never having used XBMC) that Plex was ‘just a port’ of it, so why not use XBMC…
Upgrade ATV2 Plex to 0.6.6
What I had to to get 0.6.6: it’s worth it, since 0.6.6 has resume-on-watch, and trick play now works for forwards and reverse tricks! $ – shell commands I entered from the JB’ed ATV2. [ ] – output from the commands. The biggest deal was removing the symlink for Plex’s frappliance. I suppose if I…
New Jailbreak tool designed for AppleTV
Looks like FireCore has just released Seas0nPass– a app that is targeted towards jailbreaking just the AppleTV 2nd generation. It doesn’t do anything more than Pwnagetool and usbmux,and it doesn’t give you un-tehered jb, but it looks like it helps provide a clean easy way to jb and boot your ATV quickly and without out…
Ultimate Guide to Plex9 on AppleTV 2G with 4.2.1
Update on Jan 12: You should use the SeasOnPass app from fireCore — it does exactly what I outline below, only much more quickly and easily. After a few days of screwing around with a new AppleTV 2G that came from Apple with 4.2.1 pre-installed (so no going back to older firmware) and reading numerous…