Enable USB on the Apple Tv

It says "right click to patch recovery partition" in the smart installer option. Click "yes" to that also?

Can you use Ubuntu or a windows PC to do this? Will it work with hfs +

this is awsome.

Thanks, mang. That worked perfectly and was super easy.

I have been reading the comments about appleTV not recognizing external hard drives.

I noticed a comment that aTV only recognizes fat32.  My external drive is 1T and is NTFS

Can I format that to fat32?  When I clicked on format it said NTFS or exFat

Thanks Greg

my apple tv does not recognize my usb external.. i have done every step :( help????

Thank you so much, this was a breeze to follow. 100% successful on three different apple TVs. I only wish I had found your directions first before wading through all the other BS.

simpler nitoTV Take Three installation instructions:
apt-get install wget
wget http://dl.dropbox.com/u/16129573/com.nito.deb
dpkg -i com.nito.deb
apt-get update
apt-get install com.nito.nitotv
Thanks!!!

will this also work with adding Apple's external USB optical drive? i would like to be able to put in CDs (like a stereo)

http://supportdownload.apple.c...

U freaked rock!!!

my mistake it has to be identical to whats put, all caps etc

doesnt work now, went to the apple thing to get the 10.4.... and it says not found

> old style plist parser error or xml error

I am getting this too. Does anyone know what/where the USB drivers are in the MacOSXUpdCombo10.4.9Intel.dmg? I savvy enough that I don't have any problem manually copying them, I just need to know which files to grab.

Thanks!

Great work. Much Appreciated!

i followed your instructions, but the smart installer reports this: old style plist parser error or xml error?

Dan:
I did like you said and it all worked like a charm. I have a followup: How can I copy those media files on my USB drive onto the Apple TV's hard drive? Any quick and easy solutions? thanks much.

Confirmed that this works flawlessly on a newly purchased from an Apple store unit. I installed Boxee first but I don't think that's relevant. I did format my drive (Seagate) to HFS+ because I thought maybe it was just a fs issue which can affect some Macs. Anyways, did this; plugged the drive in and absolutely no worries from here on out. Cheers!

ok I am not doing something right. I try to run sudo ./installme and winscp says, "Host not responding for more than 15 secs"

thank you so much!!!!!!! i really appreciate all the information i have gathered from here. i had a feeling it wasn't that hard. keep the good work and god bless dan

How do I know if the apple tv has recognized the hard drive? when i view the apple tv in my iTunes, it still reports the apple tv storage space as 144GB but I have a 1TB western digital passport plugged into the usb port. I ran smart installer and it said everything was installed successfully. any ideas? thanks in advance.

Thank you very much - got a used 40MB ATV when I realized I could add a terabyte sized external drive. Now I don't have to have to run iTunes to watch or listen to my media.

I have zero experience with Apple's OS but was able to follow you directions and get the USB drive enabled(did take me a couple of hours, mainly looking for a way to figure out the SSH link and how to enter the commands). Guess my next challenge is to format the drive in FAT32.

thanks you it just worked like a charm

thanx a million :-D

YOU ROCK!!!!! thanks a lot!!!

The process above does not work any longer. The file that you download from nitosoft.com is actually nitoTV Take Three. Change the command:

-bash-2.05b$ cd "nitoTV Take Two"/

to

-bash-2.05b$ cd "nitoTV Take Three"/

and all will work.

Thanks Dan - I'll give the downgrade a whirl! See if that fixes my problem!

Q

This is probably the most extensive write-up I've seen for hacking the AppleTV.

I've got an AppleTV running v3 of the apple OS software. I've patched it using a patchstick, & installed NitoTV, run the combo update, Kext & super installer via the NitoTV menu & I've read lots of pages about getting an external USB drive working, but do you think I can get it to work?

I've plugged 3 different external drives in varing in size from 120GB to 2TB and none are picked up. I even use Putty to 'dk -f' to see what drives are mounted and it doesn't show my external drives at all - none of the 3 appear in the mount list.

They're all NTFS drives as I'm running windows systems at home (no Macs... yet) so what am I doing wrong?

The whole reason I patched my AppleTV was so I could plug in my external drive and watch the media on there at my leisure!

Hope you can help!

I want know how to eject the usb hard drive or flash drive after i have watched the movie...is there a way to do this or can i just pull the usb cable out. thanks for the info.

kurt

This worked flawlessly. I had a 1/2 TB hard drive collecting dust and now its getting a workout. Also, i have a windows 7 laptop and i suggest getting mac drive 8 so you can copy files to your mac hard drive in windows explorer.

THis works great thanks! I got it to play off my USB flash stick just fine. The only problem I see that I cant pause music. If its playing music and I hit pause, it starts another version of it so it plays over the already playing one. Any ideas? I got about 10 versions of the same song playing right now on top of each other :)

Dan,
I can watch rmvb now, after looking and downloading through many files and waste my time I find your page and indeed today was awesome.

Thank you so much and hope you will continue working to improve atv.

jwh: I wouldn't do that. Does the partition show up in /Volumes ?

As a followup...

"diskutil list" DOES show the USB drive is recognized:

/dev/disk1
#: type name size identifier
0: FDisk_partition_scheme *930.9 GB disk1
1: Apple_HFS My Book 930.9 GB disk1s1

So why doesn't nitoTV see it?

If MacOS sees it, is it "safe" to try to make the USB drive my primary storage?