Installing XBMC Apple TV is powerful…
Hopefully by now you have jailbroken your Apple TV 2G. Now it’s time to install a media center.
XBMC or Xbox media center is an open source application created for use on a hacked first generation Xbox. Once the Xbox started to age an initiative started to grow for XBMC to be developed into a computer application. It has turned into a successful HTPC app that can play almost any codec. Lucky for us they have developed a client for the Apple TV 2G. It’s free of charge and will allow us to play almost any video file. Something the ATV 2G out of the box cannot do. The XBMC team continues to develop the client and new XBMC Plugins and XBMC Addons are being added regularly by the community. Take a look at our comprehensive XBMC Plugin / XBMC Addons list to get an idea of what XBMC is capable of. Okay, let’s install XBMC Apple TV 2G.
Pre-ATV 2G XBMC Install checklist
1. Apple TV 2G has been jailbroken. Check out our guide to jailbreaking with Seas0nPass.
2. PC or Mac connected to the same network as ATV 2G
3. A SHH Client Windows (Putty) or Mac (Terminal
Step 1: Get the IP Address of your ATV 2G. To do so navigate to Settings > General > Network.
Step 2: Launch SSH Client
MAC: Open Terminal and type: ssh root@192.168.1.104(Your IP Address)
Windows: Open Putty and fill in:
Host Name: Your IP Address
Port: 22
Connection Type: SSH
Step 3: Logging into the Apple TV 2G
Mac: You will be asked for a password, which if you did not change is: “alpine” without the quotations.
Windows: Type in “root” as the login without the quotations
Step 3.1(WINDOWS ONLY): Logging into the Apple TV 2G – Windows Only
Windows: You will be asked for a password, which if you did not change is: “alpine” without the quotations.
Type in “alpine” without the quotations. Note that you will not see the cursor move as you enter the passcode. Hit enter once typed.
You can now begin the XBMC Apple TV 2G client installation.
Step 4:
Type the following command…
MAC and Windows: apt-get install wget
Step 5:
Type the following command…
MAC and Windows: wget -O- http://apt.awkwardtv.org/awkwardtv.pub | apt-key add -
Step 6:
Type the following command…
MAC and Windows: echo “deb http://apt.awkwardtv.org/ stable main” > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/awkwardtv.list
Step 7:
Type the following command…
MAC and Windows: echo “deb http://mirrors.xbmc.org/apt/atv2 ./” > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/xbmc.list
Step 8:
Type the following command…
MAC and Windows: apt-get update
Step 9:
Type the following command…
MAC and Windows: apt-get install org.xbmc.xbmc-atv2
DONE!
Congratulations, you have successfully installed XBMC Apple TV 2G client on your hardware. Please let us know if you have questions and we will do our best to assist.
I get the same error as Ira no matter what I do. Please help!!
Malformed line 1 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/awkwardtv.list (dist parse)
after the last step I getr this message:
E: Couldn’t find package org.xbmc.xbmc-atv2
Please help!
Looks like you typed something wrong, try it again and make sure to type everything exact.
I get this message after typing ‘apt-get update’:
E: Type ‘.deb’ is not known on line 1 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/awkwardtv.list
What’s wrong?!
For some reason when you copy and paste the commands into the Putty window, it changes the quotation marks around “deb to .deb
In the step 3 and 4 make sure to change the period (.) to “
Apple-TV:/etc/apt/sources.list.d root# apt-get install org.xbmc.xbmc-atv2
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree… Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
org.xbmc.xbmc-atv2: Depends: com.nito.updatebegone but it is not installable
Depends: org.xbmc.xbmc-seatbeltunlock but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages
Apple-TV:/etc/apt/sources.list.d root#
ANY IDEAS???
I’ve jail broken my apple tv 2, followed the codes…and nothing has happened… ???
No matter what i do ive followed all the instructions on a number of sites and they all say they were successfull but xbmc is not on the apple tv 2 with the fc logo after the jailbreak was done. HELP ME PLS.
after typing on the 4th command i get malformed line 1 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/awkwardtv.list The list of sources could not be read. any ideas.
Not sure why you are getting that error, have you restored to default and tried from step one again?
It says access denied when i type in alpine. where can i check my changed password?
I don’t have the new style Apple TV so I can’t try this myself, but I’m wondering if there is an error in your instructions?
In step 3 you write that a Mac user should type “alpine” for the password and a Windows user should type “root” for the password, but then in step 3.1, which you write is for Windows only, it says to type “alpine” for the password.
Hi thanks for the question. The Windows installation requires one additional step when compared to Mac. The user needs to “login as” before they are prompted for a password. root is the login.
Hope that answers your question.