There’s few better ways to extend the capabilities of your Apple TV 2 than installing XBMC on it, but after the latest Apple TV 5.2 software (iOS 6.1) dropped, there was just no way to do it. Thankfully, XMBC has been updated, and will now stably supercharge your second-gen Apple TV just as well as it did before.
To do the install, it’s as simple as following the instructions over on the XBMC wiki. It’s pretty easy, although it does require some command line delving and a reboot. Power through all of that, though, and you’ll have an incredible, open-source media center running on your Apple TV 2 that can play pretty much anything. Nifty.
Source: XBMC
John Brownlee is a writer for Fast Company, and a contributing writer here at CoM. He has also written for Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, VentureBeat, and Gizmodo. He lives in Boston with his wife and two parakeets. You can follow him here on Twitter.
7 responses to “XBMC Comes To Apple TV 2 Running 5.2”
John, looks like perhaps you uploaded a draft, some essential pieces of info are missing!
This is a Jailbreak capability. Airplay overcomes many of the reasons to JB and for the vast majority of us, it is too much hassle to go through the Jailbreak process. So this is not relevant to most readers, even less so without the jailbreak caveat.
What’s that theme?
Still nothing like that for ATV3. What a waste of perfectly decent hardware.
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I don’ t think you know what “defensive” means.
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