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Tips‎ > ‎ Jailbreak Apple TV Original (1G) – ATVUSB-Creator posted 5 Mar 2012, 05:56 by Yang Yang These are instructions on how to jailbreak your AppleTV using a patchstick created by atv-win on Windows. Before getting started you need will need a USB Stick which can be fully erased. Step One Create a folder called Patchstick on your desktop, download atv-win from here, and place it into the folder. Double click to open the atv-win-3.0.zip archive and drag the atv-win executable into the Patchstick folder. Double click atv-win-3.0.exe to launch the application. Step Two Select the newest firmware version from the Firmware Version dropdown and select SSHfrom the checkboxes below. Click the Create Patchstick button to continue. Step Three Atv-win will now ask you for a location to save a .img file. Navigate to the Patchstick folder on your desktop, input a filename of atv-patchstick.img and click the Save button. Step Four Atv-win will download the latest AppleTV firmware build the .img file. Step Five A popup will appear informing you that your patchstick img has been created successfully. Click the OK button. Step Six When asked if you would like to run USB Image Tool now click the Yes button. Step Seven Select your USB stick from the list of devices on the left and then click the large Restorebutton. Step Eight Navigate to the Patchstick folder on your desktop and choose the atv-patchstick.img file we created earlier. Step Nine When asked to confirm the restore click the Yes button. Note: You will lose all previous information on the USB stick. Step Ten USB Image Tool will now create your patchstick using the img file we generated earlier. Step Eleven Once the restore is complete eject the USB Stick and connect it to your AppleTV. Step Twelve Hold down the Menu and - buttons on the AppleTV remote until it reboots. Step Thirteen Notice the Patchstick will now do its job and install SSH on the AppleTV. Step Fourteen When complete, remove the USB Stick from the AppleTV and unplug the device. Plug it back in to reboot. Step Fifteen You can now access your AppleTV via SSH to perform a host of functions and hacks. The default username and password for your AppleTV is now frontrow and frontrow.

Sometimes it can be really useful to have an SSH connection into your AppleTV. If I need to explain why then you probably won’t want to do it. Unless of course, you’re just after getting something like Boxee running, which we’ll look at as well. Before we get into doing anything to your AppleTV, when we’re done I do not know how Apple will feel about your warranty moving forward, so do this stuff at your own risk (but that’s pretty much true for many articles on this site)… So first up, let’s install SSH. To get started, plug in a jump drive you don’t mind reformatting. Then run the df command and look at which filesystem that the jump drive was mounted as. In most cases this should be /dev/disk1s1 or /dev/disk2s1 or something like that. Note this location and while you’re at it, double-check that the data is trivial to you and that you

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don’t mind reformatting the jump drive. Next, let’s download atvusb-creator, a little utility that will generate a new patchstick based on that jump drive (a patchstick being the term applied to usb sticks that will hax0r an AppleTV). Once downloaded, run the tool. Select ATV-Patchstick in the Choose an Installation dialog, and then select the version of the AppleTV OS you have (if you’re fully software updated then as of the date of this writing that would be 3.x). Next, choose ssh tools from the 3rd field in the Installation Options section, making sure that the box is checked. If you are just trying to get XBMC or Boxee running then you can check the boxes for those as well at this point. Next, set the USB Target Device field to be the filesystem you selected earlier and then click the Create Using button and wait for the process to finish. Once the patchstick has been created, plug it into your AppleTV and reboot the unit. You’ll see a bunch of code, similar to starting Mac OS X into verbose mode. When the screen tells you that you’re done, unplug the patchstick and reboot the device. Upon reboot it will be running SSH with a username and password of frontrow. If you’re not using a static IP address then if you open iTunes and connect to the device you’ll have an entry in your arp table for it. You can run arp and find the IP fairly easily. Once found, use the SSH command to connect to the device. For example, if mine is on an IP address of 10.0.0.100 then I would use the following command to connect to it:

Hi, An absolute newbie here. My config is a MACPRO and an ATV1. I have a few questions, they may sound simple, but they are a concern for me. If you can assist it would be appreciated and Thanks in advance. I've tried to install using ATV USB Creator for Mac as indicated on the Downloads. Nov 25, 2009 After the installation is done and the screen says you can reboot, remove the USB drive patchstick and unplug/re-plug the power to the Apple TV 1 to reboot it. Your Apple TV 1 GUI will now have a new 'Launcher' menu option on the main menu. Mk-atv-xbmc.bat will create a disk image that will install 1) bintuils 2) SoftwareMenu-0.71 3) XBMCLauncher-0.6 Use this version if you already have ssh on your AppleTV that was installed by a previous patchstick. Mk-atv-xbmc-ssh.bat will create a disk image that will install 1) ssh 2) bintuils 3) SoftwareMenu-0.71 4) XBMCLauncher-0.6.

ssh frontrow@10.0.0.100

Now you have an AppleTV running SSH. Even though this article isn’t meant to be about Boxee or XBMC, you can then install those by going to the new Launcher menu and then to Downloads and downloading those applications (otherwise if you try to access them you’ll get an error that the .app bundle can’t be found). Once those are in place it should open pretty easily. Now that you’re running SSH, let’s look at one of the uses. I want a web browser on the AppleTV (even though typing a URL in it is pretty painful unless you install a keyboard too). For this instance, I’m going to use CouchServer, ’cause I like the way the keyboard works and because there’s a silverlight that kinda’ sorta’ works with it. First, download the files for CouchSurfer here. Then copy the files that were downloaded up to the device (assuming the filename is CouchSurfer-Lite.tar) from your client computer:

scp ~/Desktop/CouchSurfer-Lite.tar frontrow@10.0.0.100:~

Next, SSH into the AppleTV and extract the tar file:

tar -xvpf CouchSurfer-Lite.tar

Then move the extracted data into the PlugIns directory (which will display the appliance similar to how Launcher would be displayed at this point:

sudo mv CouchSurfer.frappliance /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/PlugIns/

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(your password will be frontrow in case you have hard core add and have forgotten it already) We’re gonna’ give ownership to wheel:

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sudo chown -R root:wheel /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/PlugIns/CouchSurfer.frappliance

Then reboot the AppleTV. Upon reboot, you will then have a shiny new web browser making your AppleTV even more like a full fledged Mac with Front Row. Now you’re in pretty good shape. You’ve pretty much put more stuff on your AppleTV than you can possibly use, but you still probably just want NetFlix to work on it. For that, you’ll need to get Silverlight working with CouchSurfer and just browse to the movies in the web browser at Netflix.com as the Boxee implementation for AppleTV doesn’t yet work with NetFlix and there aren’t any native Plug-Ins that work with it yet either (that I’m aware of). Also, if you’re going to use any of the 3rd party media browsers, keep in mind that they’re sitting on top of the OS layer and that their resource utilization seems pretty poor compared to the native media browser on the device (given the abstraction there, it seems logical it would be so no complaints). BTW, another fun little app (to help make your AppleTV more like your iPad): http://code.google.com/p/weatherfront And the most intriguing one that I haven’t actually gotten to work yet (haven’t had time to get past the second or third step – busy) is: http://www.appletvhacks.net/2007/04/02/install-asterisk-on-apple-tv/#more-41 What I’d like to see – the ability to run my AppleTV as a Zwave controller… Or iPad… Or Newton… 🙂