It has recently been noted that a few of people who have not yet updated their current “Eden” XBMC on their Apple TV’s and are trying to do so are running into a few issues with “update unsuccessful”. Well we thought it would be a good idea to run through a quick tutorial on how to install a fresh version of the popular media player XMBC running the latest version “Frodo”.

Before we get started here are some prerequisites that you must have prior to the install.

Right lets get started!

1 Launch Terminal/PuTTY

Please make sure that the Apple TV and the computer that you are using are all on the same network. 

2 Connect to your ATV via SSH

3 You will need to connect using the following command :

ssh root@[Your Apple TV’s I.P. Address] 

You can find your Apple TV’s IP address by heading over General>Network

Just a heads up, if you run into an issue with authentification all you need to do is simply copy and paste the following command into Terminal and press enter.

rm ~/.ssh/known_hosts

6 Any security prompts that pop up simply agree to them by typing “yes” (no quotations) and click enter.

7 You will then be asked to type in your password. Unless you have changed it then the default password is “Apline” (no quotations)

8 Right you are now going to need to  1 by 1 copy and paste the Following Commands into your Terminal (one command at a time). Press enter after you finish each one and wait to move on to the next.

1. apt-get install wget
2. wget -O- http://apt.awkwardtv.org/awkwardtv.pub | apt-key add -
3. echo “deb http://apt.awkwardtv.org/ stable main” > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/awkwardtv.list
4. echo “deb http://mirrors.xbmc.org/apt/atv2 ./” > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/xbmc.list
5. apt-get update
6. mkdir -p /Applications/AppleTV.app/Appliances
7. apt-get install org.xbmc.xbmc-atv2
8. mkdir -p /Applications/XBMC.frappliance
9. reboot

9 Once you have completed all of that your Apple TV will boot and reload the menus. Locate XBMX and you should notice that you have launched “Frodo”

Congratulations you’ve just installed XBMC “Frodo” on to your Apple TV. Now all you need to do is add some fun addons to it. You can simply do that by adding the Fusion Drive and installing popular addons from there. To learn how to install the fusion drive, read our tutorial “Installing popular addons using the fusion drive”

Let us know how you get on with the install, if you have any questions please let us know by leaving us a comment below or finding us on Twitter and tweeting us @iJailbreakthis

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If you’re anything like me and just love watching sports then this is going to be a great little article for you. Assuming that you own a jailbroken Apple TV 2 you may not be aware that you have the entire sports calendar at your finger tips. Over here in the UK we love our football (soccer for any American readers) and Saturday is generally football day with games going on up and down the country in the various leagues. General television is usually limited and they will only air one maybe two games. To me this is a problem, the team I want to watch is very rarely on the tv so I have to turn to my trusty Apple TV.

With a jailbroken Apple TV the posibilites of what you can watch are endless, movies, tv shows, live tv, you name it! For sake of this tutorial however we are going to show you how you can watch whatever sporting event from whichever sport you want, Sound awesome? Well it is!

Here is how you do it:

We are going to be installing a fantastic XBMC addon called SportsDevil. Assuming that you already have XBMC installed and the Fusion drive then we can continue. If you do not have these installed yet then follow the links below before you continue.

Tutorial: How to install XBMC on your Apple TV

Tutorial: How to install the Fusion drive on your Apple TV

1 Once you have both installed and you’re good to go, open up XBMC and head over to system > settings

2 Scroll down to Addons > Install from zip

3 Scroll down to the Fusion folder and open it up

4 Locate the Sports folder and open that up

5 Click on repositories

6 The repo that you are going to be looking for is Max Mustermann repository it should be the first on the list. Click that and it will give you a message saying ‘enabled’

7 Once you have seen that message pop up, head back to the addons page and click on ‘get addons’ you will then need to find the Max Mustermann Addons and click on that and then click on ‘video addons’ From there you should see an Addon called ‘SportsDevil’ 

8 Click to enable and job done! You have now installed SportsDevil. Now let’s run through how to get it up and running.

9 Right, you’re going to need to head to the videos section from the main XBMC page, open it up. Click on Video Addons and you should then see SportsDevil in there.

10 Open up the SportsDevil folder and get ready to overwhelmed with the available content! Click on ‘Live Sports’ to continue

Basically from the main SportsDevil ‘Live Sports’ page you are shown several sources from which you can find a stream for the sport you are looking for. For me the most secure and consistent ones are RojaDirecta and LSHunter. In all fairness they are all really good, it all depends on what you’re looking for.

Open up one of the sources, select the sport that you want to watch and then find the stream. It really is as simple as that. You will find that the quality of the streams vary however I have had great experience in the past watching the Premier League matches in almost HD quality. Sometimes it can be a little bit of a trial and error process as most of the sports will come with several stream links so try a few out if you’re not happy with them then close that source and open a new one and try again. As I said it is a little bit of trial and error at times however you will quickly become familiar with which are great links and which are not so good.

You will also be able to use SportsDevil for live PPV events such as boxing, WWF, UFC etc..

Hope this little tutorial helps you out, let me know if you have any questions, leave a comment below or tweet us @iJailbreakthis 

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We recently posted a few articles on new products available on iCarbons.com such as the official WWJC custom skin and the new ‘zesty-orange’- colour option which has been added to the iCarbons family. Well we are pleased to let you all know that we have spoken with iCarbons directly and set up a special promotion code only available on iJailbreakthis.com

Click the banner above or this link to view the iCarbons.com website.

Save 15% on all orders site wide on iCarbons.com simply use voucher code iJT15 at checkout to claim your discount.

Enjoy folks!

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Last year iCarbons was a leading sponsor of WWJC and released a custom skin for that event too. Last years WWJC skin was a complete inlayed design. Similar to those who own one of the skins with the Apple logo inserts. This year iCarbons and WWJC have gone the extra mile and designed something quite remarkable. Using @KrisNapDesigns awesome design for the WWJC logo they have incorporated the NYC skyline right in there with the lettering. Kris has taken pride in the logo design and has paid great attention to detail. After speaking with Bruce over at iCarbons he explained to us how they took the new highly detailed WWJC logo and created a truly unique skin.

The detail of the logo is amazing! so we wanted to reflect the and the effort it took to create it and make sure we expressed that in the quality of the WWJC skin. This time around we got innovative and used Micro Etching to create this beautiful skin on the Brushed Aluminium and Brushed Titanium. We created the options so any customer can purchase it for the iPhone 4, iPhone 4S and the iPhone 5 and choose the accent colours of their choice. It takes significantly longer to produce the WWJC skin in comparison to the normal iCarbons skins. This is down to the detail of the logo and using this special mico etching process to the WWJC logo that amazing etched 3D look.

WWJC Custom Skin

The "Brushed Aluminium & Orange accents" custom WWJC skin, looks sweet!

WWJC Custom Skin

Take a look at the amazing detail in the logo.

WWJC Custom Skin

Here is the WWJC custom iCarbons skin in all of its glory!

WWJC Custom Skin

A job well done, really loving this new custom skin, just wish I was able to attend WWJC this year!

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If you’re not familiar with what the iCarbons skins are all about then they are basically a thin piece of durable carbon fibre which wraps around the phone to protect it from general wear and tear. The front skin covers everything but the screen, the back skin covers everything leaving a precession cut hole for both the camera, flash and mic and the side skin wraps 360˚ around the device leaving again precession cut holes for the volume buttons, speakers, power button, headphone jack and lighting port. Everything about the iCarbons skins is precession cut to fit perfectly.

You can pick your WWJC skin today on the iCarbons website while stocks last! I believe that these are selling quickly so if you are intending on buying one I recommend that you don’t hang around! You can save 15% off your next iCarbons order by using code iJT15 at checkout. 

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The guys over at iCarbons recently released a new colour to the awesome carbon fibre skins family, orange! We have managed to get our hands on a few and have already fallen in love with this bright and vibrant colour. I have recently installed the orange iCarbons skin on one of my Apple TV 2′s (yeah… I have a few), my initial thoughts were that without the Apple logo inserts which we all know iCarbons have had to remove the skins on the Apple TV may make it look a little blocky or plain. You will be happy to know that my initial pre install thoughts were so wrong, it looks awesome!

I have posted in the past a tutorial on how to intall the Apple TV iCarbons skin so make sure you head over and check it out, or watch one of the great videos that the folks over at iCarbons have put together. They really are a great help. You can find their videos right here > iCarbons Install Videos

The new orange skins are available on the iCarbons website right now and have been on sale for a few weeks. After speaking with Bruce directly he has had this to say…

I opted to to give the Apple TV skin a go and I must say after installing it I am really impressed with the colour. To get a feel as to how bright the skin is take a look at the green skins which were released a few months ago. The orange skin is very much on par with the vibrant green. As mentioned in the previous ATV skin install article the install process for the Apple TV is one of the more simple of iCarbons installs. Made even simpler with the fact there is now no inserts and small lettering to mess around with. The only “tricky” part of the ATV install really is front of the silver remote. I say tricky, but all you need to do is focus and take your time on the install just to get the skin to fit nicely around the buttons. I am a little bit of  perfectionist so the skin needs to be exactly right before I press down.

Now we all know that iCarbons have had to remove the Apple logo inserts and a lot of you are doubting whether or not your device will look cool now that the Apple logo is ‘hidden’ well I discovered this when I was installing the bottom piece of the ATV skin. Once you have applied the skin to the bottom, the Apple logo is slightly indented.

iJT Top Tip!! If you take a hairdryer and apply some heat to the skin and press down firmly you can cause the skin to weld around the indention which will cause the Apple logo to show through! Which in my opinion actually looks a lot better than having the logo inserts separately.

Make sure to give @iCarbonsdotcom a follow on Twitter and if you have have any questions regarding any of the skins or colour options then they will be more than happy to help. Let us know what you think of the orange skins, leave us a comment below or tweet us @iJailbreakthis

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