step by step of creating the patchstick for your Apple TV.
most important tip: please, please, please make sure that when you create the patchstick there are no external drives connected. you don’t want to be formatting the drive with all them pictures/movies..
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so XBMC is pronounced "Xbox Media Center" ?
oops…
tough nut this one, think we agreed that it's pronounced "XBMC Media Center" :p
@pike
So you want to call it the "Xbox XBMC Media Center?"
I don't think so.
XBMC = Xbox Media Center
@pike i'll tell Dave to edit it..
Yep, pretty awesome when my entire backup harddrive went. See ya later original writings and media projects! But it did get a 250GB patch stick.
@pike – sorry brother! The department of redundancy department has heard your XBMC MC request. I'll keep it in my noggin for future videos. When I add new audio it never sounds right – I can't get my "energy" or volume to match since I wing everything live.
@colter – you totally beat me! I only made a 120GB patch stick!
At least my half-terabyte drives weren't connected. Damn USB naming nomenclature!
@scott – can you pull the volume name into your UI instead of the USB /dev location?
@all – play it safe and unmount your spinning hard disks when you create a USB patch stick!
My Patchstick fails looking for "patchstick.sh"
It says:
searching for patchstick.sh
patchstick failed
then a bunch of other crap.
Any thoughts?
BTW – Boxee is terrific!
I thought I had to wait for the invite… maybe I'm confused. I successfully made the patchstick, but nothing happened when I plugged it into the atv and turned it on. I suspect the usb drive. Do I need to do something to make it bootable before running atv-usb creator?
Jennie,
Unplug the Apple TV and then put the USB drive into the Apple TV before plugging the unit back in.
How big of a thumb drive do you need? I've got a 512MB drive that would sure like to see the light of day again.
@kevin 512MB is good. 1GB is fine too.
@jennie just an OSX format (vs. the default of FAT32) makes the drive bootable. You don't need to do anything else.
I can't get my 2.2 apple tv to load the USB drive. I've tried a 2gb kingston USB drive (Similar to the one that was in the blog video here), and an IOMEGA micro USB drive. I can't seem to figure out how to get the Apple tv to recognize them. Both are Mac formatted so I can't put my finger on it. I've followed all instructions to the tee! Is the patchstick program not 2.2 compatible?
Okay, just to update on my last post (post 13)… I tried my wife's 4gb kingston drive and well.. this time it worked. My 2gb kingston (these look like the one in the video), and the Iomega microdrive didn't work. So now I have it working on the aTV. For awhile I thought I had a non functioning USB port since I bought my ATV when it was announced. Is it something in the code that is picky about USB thumb drives? So far so good in terms of how it works. I'd like to see a customizable main splash screen. Remove the recently viewed / used items, and add a scrolling library to my NAS or something. Also, Hulu videos don't seem to show up in high res.
hi @MikeD, glad we got it sorted out. its not the code being picky, as much as all these el-cheapo components getting into the sticks, and advertising the wrong characteristics about themselves.
the splash screen is customizable, in principal, depends on what you want to do really.
not showing hulu in highres is a limitation of the atv and our ability to play hd content on it.
did not work for me
searching for patchstick.sh
patchstick failed
So how would you do this on windows :-/. Thanks!
I just ran my patchstick for the first time since the Apple TV update in February which knocked out my original Boxee patch.
It all goes smooth HOWEVER, when I choose Boxee in the Menu it does not prompt me to login.
what gives? Any ideas?
Please let me know any ideas
Having trouble with formatting the usb drive to the proper mac format in windows. Can it be done? Please help.
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