Still, at home I prefer the Roku to the Pi. My co-worker is a TV fiend so that’s what we do with our spare time). (Before you ask, we sometimes get several hours of downtime at work, especially on weekends, and there is nothing to do but watch TV or read. The fact that I can take it to work and use composite cables to hook it up to our ancient CRT TV and either watch downloaded content via USB, or stream from my home DVR, makes it a phenomenal solution. The newer board works amazingly well with the proper RAM split, and it doesn’t even have to be overclocked. It definitely helps to have a Rev 2 Pi though I tried Raspbmc on the first gen board I got in the initial rush, and it never worked right. That said, throw an IR receiver on a GPIO pin and you can use a much more fully featured remote than the ATV2’s. The Pi is cheaper (even with a case and wifi adapter), but doesn’t come with a remote which increases the cost. Posted in home entertainment hacks Tagged apple tv, plex Post navigation For more info on the system check out this forum. All other functionality will be retained, making for a near-perfect solution. You aim your Apple TV DNS at the computer running the script, then use the native Movie Trailer app, which will be populated with movies and TV shows from your Plex backend. Instead of putting new software on the Apple TV this uses a separate computer to intercept its web traffic. This hack uses DNS redirects to make Apple TV 3 a Plex frontend.

It required a jailbreak to load the home media software which is why it can’t be done on the newest box. The second generation hardware was a popular platform for XBMC. Not only has it stood up to every attempt at a Jailbreak, but they don’t allow 3rd party applications through the app store like the other iOS hardware does.

Apple has been keeping a tight leash on the third generation of their Apple TV hardware.

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