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……
Monthly Archives: February 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…