How To Install NitoTV, First Jailbreak App For Apple TV

Posted by dkszone on October 29, 2010

We have been seeing Apple TV Jailbreak for a long time now, but had not seen any jailbreak apps so far. Here comes the first jailbreak app for Apple TV, NitoTV. This app is a front end to mplayer, a popular media player, and has RSS feed capabilities and 3 day weather forecast. NitoTV lets you create playlists and create files or folders.

Install NitoTV On Jailbroken Apple TV 2G

1. Jailbreak Apple TV 2G using PwnageTool 4.1.

2. After jailbreak, connect your Apple TV 2G to your Mac OS X and SSH into it using the Terminal app.

3. Use root@ip-address as username and ‘alpine’ as password. You can find out your device’s IP address from Settings –> WiFi –> ‘Name of your Network’.

We recommend you to change your password immediately using the ‘passwd’ command. Type passwd ‘new password’.

4. Add the source repository for NitoTV. Type this one after the other:

echo “deb http://apt.awkwardtv.org ./” > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/awkwardtv.list

apt-get update

apt-get install com.nito.nitoTV

killall Lowtide

5. Restart your Apple TV 2G.

So there you go! You have successfully got your first jailbreak app for ATV 2G.

Step 4: Now change this default password by entering “passwd” command, followed by your new password when prompted.

Step 5: Now add the required repository for NitoTV:

Type: echo “deb http://apt.awkwardtv.org ./” > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/awkwardtv.list

Step 6: Type: apt-get update

Step 7: Type: apt-get install com.nito.nitoTV

Step 8: Type: killall Lowtide

Step 9: Now restart your Apple TV.

That’s it! You should now have a new launcher menu for NitoTV, with Weather and RSS Feeds option as shown in the screenshot below. You should see a new menu ‘nitoTV’ with ‘Weather’, RSS Feeds and About options.