Archive:HOW-TO:Install XBMC on Apple TV 1

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Thanks to lots of hard work by Team-XBMC's very own Scott Davilla it is now possible to install and run XBMC on you Apple TV.

How does it work?

ATV USB Creator let you make a so called "patchstick", a bootable USB flash drive which you boot your Apple TV with to install XBMC for Mac to run nativly on Apple TV OS (which by the way is "Tiger based).

In short it is XBMC for Mac on Apple TV made easy.

XBMC Live minimum requirements

HOW-TO install XBMC on your Apple TV

ATV USB Creator is currently available for Mac OS X (Windows and Linux ATV USB Creator is coming soon). 

NOTE! Just to be safe, unplug any other Mac formatted USB drives just in case, (as you do not want to risk the chance the patchstick utility to overwrite the data on any other USB drive you might have connected).
  1. Download the ATV USB Creator from http://code.google.com/p/atvusb-creator/
  2. Insert a 'bootable' USB flash memory drive into your Mac.
  3. Run the ATV USB Creator.
  4. Follow the GUI to select "ATV Patchstick"" and which plugins you would like to install.
  5. Make sure to select the correct disk and hit the circling arrows to the left of the drive menu if you insert the USB flash drive after launching atvusb-creator.
  6. Remove the USB flash memory drive and plug it into your Apple TV.
  7. Power on your Apple TV and the USB flash memory drive (now also called "patchstick") will automatically boot and run ATV bootloader.
  8. After the ATV bootloader finishes, remove it and restart your Apple TV.
  9. You Apple TV GUI will now have an option for XBMC on the main menu.
  10. Click on XBMC, then select "Update", (this will download and install XBMC from the Internet)
  11. Once XBMC is done installing, restart your Apple TV (again).
  12. Click "XBMC", then select "XBMC" in the sub-menu to start XBMC.

Development for XBMC on Apple TV

To help out with the development of XBMC for Mac (which runs on Apple TV) see here. To help out with the development of ATV USB Creator or ATV bootloader see their respective project sites on Google Code:

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