Ok, many people have been holding off on the latest update because it takes away some features that are useful to people who “hacked it” to play any content off their file server. But there is no need to fear, you can manually update it which is fairly simple! Giving you apples nice Youtube modification! You will need to reinstall your plugins so they work with the new frameworks. Most of the plugins have been updated to work with the new 1.1 version. If you are lazy and don’t want to upgrade, you should as the plugins mature you won’t be able to get all their cool features without updating!

What You Need.

1. An AppleTV
2. Apple’s 1.1 Update
3. SSH & SCP(OS X + Linux has this, windows people look here!)

How to do it.

1. Download the 1.1 Update from apple.
2. While we are downloading the update lets backup the files we are about to modify so SSH into your apple tv, ex: ssh -1 frontrow@AppleTVIpHere the default password is frontrow
3. Now lets backup Backrow.Framework and iPhotoAccess.Framework:
   

   cd /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/
   sudo mv Backrow.framework Backrow.framework.1.0
   sudo mv iPhotoAccess.framework iPhotoAccess.framework.1.0

4. Next step is to backup the old Finder.
   

   cd /System/Library/CoreServices
   sudo mv Finder.app Finder.app.1.0

5. Now copy the following things out of the .dmg from apple and into a folder.
   

   /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Backrow.framework
   /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/iPhotoAccess.framework
   /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/AppleTV.framework
   /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app

6. Copy the fles to the AppleTV’s /tmp directory. ex, scp -1pr file frontrow@AppleTVip:/tmp
7. Now move the files frameworks into the /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/ folder.
8. Move the Finder.app into the /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app folder
9. Issue this command ps ax | grep ‘Finder’ | awk ‘{print $1}’ it will give you a number and then do kill numberhere . Your new Youtube enabled apple tv will boot up.
10. Now run these two commands if you want to be able to put your apple tv to sleep(hold the play/pause button)
    

    sudo chmod u+s /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/AppleTV.framework/Resources/SettingsHelper

    sudo chown root:wheel /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/AppleTV.framework/Resources/SettingsHelper

If you have any questions or problems you can either ask us in the forums, or check out the awkward tv wiki

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