I have a full blown post on hacking an AppleTV to get it to play nice with MythTV in the works, but it is something that benefits from step-by-step pictures and that is something I can’t get while I am in New York. To help bridge the gap, I am going to just point you to the patchstick creator and give a general outline of what needs to be done. If you are going to follow this to modify your AppleTV, please do research to fill the gaps. I can’t be held responsible for you bricking your AppleTV.
- Head to http://code.google.com/p/atvusb-creator/ and download the patch stick creator
- Make said patchstick
- Unplug your appleTV
- Plug the patchstick in to the usb slot
- turn on the appleTV
- let the magic happen
- Reboot aTV
- Update the Software Menu
- Install updated versions of NeroTV, Boxee/XBMC
- Install all extras (debian, video codecs, etc)
- Configure NFS mount to point to MythTV recording directory (Needs to be -P)
- SSH in to aTV, add the NFS mount to rc.local
- restart aTV
- Boot up Boxee/XBMC
- If going with XBMC, ssh in to aTV, install MythBox plugin
- Set up mythtv connection inside Boxee/XBMC
- profit
Like I said, I will have a full guide once I get home to take some pictures, but this will have to do for now.
