Comments on: Give Your Apple TV 1 New Life With OpenElec 2.0 (installing XBMC)

By: Philip Bechara

Philip Bechara — Fri, 05 Dec 2014 04:45:00 +0000

tried pasting the links in to terminal to create the usb stick and it asks me for a password?

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 25 Sep 2014 06:35:00 +0000

I have a USB stick with Gotham 13.2 in the back of my atv1. Problem is that I can’t get it to connect to the Internet even though I’ve added my server ip address and username and password for my router. In network settings it doesn’t show the line ‘internet: connected’ and when trying to launch a plugin they are all saying script failed!
Any ideas please? Thanks in advance.

By: F P

F P — Mon, 17 Mar 2014 01:50:00 +0000

My Apple TV 1 is now running & working incredibly! Thanks!

By: Dan Rose

Dan Rose — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 00:08:00 +0000

In reply to BuntuFreak. yes you can configure the file on you usb thumbdrive to install usb and run this from a thumb drive and not alter you apple tv 1 at all.. give it a whirl

By: Dan Rose

Dan Rose — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 00:06:00 +0000

In reply to Tom Savini. can't run terminal on windows.. its a linux/mac os thing

By: Rasmus Thue Nielsen

Rasmus Thue Nielsen — Sun, 14 Apr 2013 18:00:00 +0000

1 bricked apple tv…thanx guys…..

By: California Powers

California Powers — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 21:21:00 +0000

I tried this and bricked my Apple TV v.1! You guys need to put in the directions that it needs an Ethernet connection hooked up, too! Something I only found out AFTER it was bricked and I desperately combed thru the forums.
My Apple TV is downstairs and attached to my old analog TV via RCA component cables. All my Ethernet is upstairs. I have no monitors with RCA-in (and no, it’s a 22-inch glass CRT, not moving that TV upstairs!)

Thanks for nothing, dudes!

By: skip

skip — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 23:47:00 +0000

Thanks for posting this. I’ve had my original AppleTV sitting around gathering dust. This certainly adds life to it – especially being able to access video files over the network and Airplay. Only issue was getting it to install but that was due to the specific USB stick having issues(2gb memorex), it was old and I remember the xbox having issues with it. Tried another stick and it installed no problem. During install it gave and error about partions not matching – I think

By: Tom Savini

Tom Savini — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 12:03:00 +0000

Hi all 🙂

Sorry if this is a clumsy question…

I have an ATV1. It is working fine with XBMC, but it is funb to try new stuff.

I stopped really early in the above user manual.

I connected the USB. Then it satopped for me. Open your Terminal app? I didn’t get that. Do they mean putty? Or (I’m on Win7 64bit) run, cmd and something?

I fouind this one; https://wiki.openelec.tv/index.php?title=Installing_OpenELEC_on_AppleTV

It didn’t say anything about Windows at all..

Sorry, probably a n00b question

By: BuntuFreak

BuntuFreak — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 17:20:00 +0000

Is there any way I can install OpenElec on my ATV1 – I don’t care about losing ATV featuers – BUT KEEP my Video files I have transferred to the Hard Disk. I cannot afford to lose my Media, although being able to run Frodo would be just awesome.