I bought and hacked my “Silver” AppleTV over 2 years ago, on the day Apple announced the “new” black AppleTV (2nd generation). They have serve me very well, and are still going strong. But after all these times, I felt the set in my Living Room needed a refresh. Somehow XBMC dies whenever I leave it idling for a while. So off I went to restore it and re-hack it, reading my own how-to as I go along since I’ve forgotten how to do it.
How to Hack your Original AppleTV 1G (Updated for XBMC v11 and Mac OS X 10.8)Os X El Capitan
Jun 27, 2009 Download and unzip. Enclosed are a two batch files with associated disk images that are 7-zipped and a set of tools. These batch file can be used to create AppleTV patchstick disk images. The minimum USB flash drive supported is 256MB. Atvusb-creator is an USB flash drive creator for the AppleTV. https://needssupernal136.weebly.com/aliwangwang-for-mac-os-x.html. It creates USB flash drive based installers that include patchstick, factory restore and various LInux distributions. Not an alternative? Oct 08, 2019 Apple computer with Mac OS X 10.4+ or Windows XP+ computer with a USB port and ATV USB Creator installed. 512MB (or larger) USB flash memory drive. You can also use memory cards and a USB reader in place of a typical USB drive. Make sure the Apple TV 1 is updated latest software version (3.0.2) before proceeding. Atvusb-creator is an USB flash drive creator for the AppleTV. It creates USB flash drive based installers that include patchstick, factory restore and various LInux distributions. Atvusb-creator comes with ssh, bin tools, and two plugins (XBMC/Boxee Installer/Launcher and SoftwareMenu). TV Using ATV USB Creator. Preparing the ATV USB Stick in Mac OS X. 1 Download the FIRECORE software from www Firecore. Com 2 Install and download the AppleTV.
Much to my horror, 2 years is a long time and the USB stick failed to be created in Mountain Lion! So I went looking for answers on how to hack my original AppleTV in Mac OS X 10.8.2. Well, I’m glad it’s still possible, and here I detail the how-to. This time around, however, I’m not spoon-feeding you with very detailed instructions, but I hope it’s still easy enough for most of you.
Preparing the ATV USB Stick in Mac OS X 10.8
Preparing the AppleTV by Restoring it to Factory Condition
Kindle for mac os sierra. Hacking it
It’s hacked; you’ll see a new menu item “Launcher” in Frontrow.
Installing XBMC
(Read this post to find out if you need, and how to set up MySQL on your Mac OS X.)
Before we install XBMC, let’s save some time while we are downloading XBMC later on by copying the following two large files into ~/frontrow/Documents . https://needssupernal136.weebly.com/edius-for-mac-os-x.html. The files are required for the Smart Installer we will run later on.
Select “XBMC 11.x – Eden”, from Launcher -> Downloads
Update Launcher after that. https://needssupernal136.weebly.com/gtasan-andreas-for-mac-os-sierra.html.
(Good news) If you have XBMC v11 on another machine, you can simply copy the contents of the two following folders over. That saves you the trouble to re-setup everything! Just make some changes to identify the new setup.
Enjoy your XBMC!
(Optional) Installing nitoTV
nitoTV lets me mount my remote afp drives at my MacBook Pro where I keep my collection of multimedia files. It is also required if you want to attach a USB hard disk to your AppleTV USB input.
Open Terminal on your computer, ssh into your AppleTV, and enter the following commands (one line at a time):
(Optional) Installing Maintenance (for Overflow)
Firecore’s ATV Flash has a nice add-on that lets me install Overflow easily, now that Software Menu is broken and I can’t install it the old way. Unfortunately Firecore deliberately put an expiry date on the ATV Flash installer I paid for. I’m not going into their lame excuses which I find unacceptable. Since I can copy a component from my expired copy, I’m not going to waste my time looking for my registration details and contacting Firecore again for an updated installer.
Install Overflow, in Maintenance->Manage Plugins
(Optional) I don’t like Boxee
I don’t know about you but I never liked Boxee because its interface overwhelms me. I could never figure out what it really offers. Therefore I like to get rid of it from my AppleTV, by removing its logo in Frontrow and its entry in Launcher, and finally renaming Launcher to XBMC. Voila, bye bye Boxee.
Os X 10.11.4
Here’s a zip file containing the replacement Launcher logo, and two files edited to reflect above. Simply transfer them to ~/frontrow, ssh into your AppleTV, and type the following commands in Terminal.
Os X 10.12
Atvusb-creator For Os X Download
All done.
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