Installing XBMC on AppleTV 2

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……

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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…

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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…

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