How to Install Plex Media Center on Your Apple TV

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Posted November 6, 2010 at 1:38am by Shalom Levytam

These are instructions on how to install Plex Media Center on your Apple TV. Before beginning you must jailbreak your device.

Step One
Launch Terminal from your Applications:Utilities folder.

Step Two
SSH into the Apple TV by entering the following command into the Terminal window. Replace "10.0.1.20" with the IP address of your Apple TV.

ssh root@10.0.1.20

If you haven't connected to this device before it will ask you if you're sure you want to continue connecting. Type in yes and hit the enter key.

Enter alpine as your password if you haven't already changed it.

Step Three
Add the new Cydia sources by inputing the following commands into the Terminal window.

echo "deb http://apt.awkwardtv.org ./" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/awkwardtv.list

echo "deb http://www.ambertation.de ./downloads/PLEX/" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/plex.list

Step Four
Now update your Cydia database by entering the following command.

apt-get update

Step Five
Install the plugins (and its dependencies like beigelist by DHowett) by entering the following command.

apt-get install plex-client-plugin

If you are warned that additional disk space will be used, input Y and press enter

If asked to Install these packages without verification, input Y and press enter.

Step Six
Restart the GUI by entering the following command into the Terminal window.

killall Lowtide

Step Seven
Once the GUI restarts you should see PLEX in the menu bar.

You can learn more about these instructions from their source.

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plexUser - September 6, 2013 at 8:44am

No jailbreak but there "Plex Connect", a novel intelligent method to access all of our digital content on an ATV without jailbreak. Something iClarified never bothered to inform

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moli - July 4, 2013 at 2:49pm

Tutorial Plex Connect Apple TV 3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puAAgQTlnBI

yuvals - September 14, 2012 at 4:20am

After one year there is an error coming. This worked for me. An overview is as follows: Jailbreak AppleTV 2g ssh root@169.10.11.12 echo "deb http://www.ambertation.de ./downloads/PLEX/" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/plex.list apt-get update apt-get install beigelist apt-get install com.plex.client-plugin killall AppleTV or killall Lowtide

Storm - October 23, 2011 at 10:18am

You've hit the ball out the park! Incredblie!

s2 - January 26, 2011 at 10:00pm

Can't seem to be able to SSH into it after this. Keep getting this... @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ @ WARNING: REMOTE HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED! @ @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ IT IS POSSIBLE THAT SOMEONE IS DOING SOMETHING NASTY! Someone could be eavesdropping on you right now (man-in-the-middle attack)! It is also possible that the RSA host key has just been changed. The fingerprint for the RSA key sent by the remote host is 35:dc:60:d1:a1:29:a7:de:43:93:79:b3:34:68:f4:b7. Please contact your system administrator. Add correct host key in /Users/mrslav/.ssh/known_hosts to get rid of this message. Offending key in /Users/mrslav/.ssh/known_hosts:1 RSA host key for 192.168.1.109 has changed and you have requested strict checking. Host key verification failed.

papasaga - June 4, 2014 at 12:08pm

Go into the folder and change the file name to known_hosts. This will fix it.

Eric Jarvies - January 10, 2011 at 2:26pm

Follow these instructions for a tethered 4.2.1 installation of Plex: -ssh root@ip.address.of.appletv -cd /private/var/root/ -echo "deb http://apt.awkwardtv.org ./" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/awkwardtv.list -echo "deb http://www.ambertation.de ./downloads/PLEX/" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/plex.list -wget -O- http://apt.awkwardtv.org/awkwardtv.pub | apt-key add - -apt-get update -apt-get install com.plex.client-plugin -rm /var/lib/dpkg/info/com.plex.client-plugin.postinst -apt-get install com.plex.client-plugin -ln -s /Applications/Lowtide.app/Appliances/PLEX.frappliance/ /Applications/AppleTV.app/Appliances/PLEX.frappliance -apt-get install beigelist -apt-get update -apt-get upgrade -killall AppleTV Good luck! Eric Jarvies

iSimone - November 14, 2010 at 1:08pm

Hi ! If this string does not work: apt-get install plex-client-plugin try this one: apt-get install com.plex.client-plugin

tk - January 20, 2011 at 4:17am

wow thanks. tethered 4.2.1 command: apt-get install com.plex.client-plugin worked for me!

hmanski - November 8, 2010 at 2:20pm

Package plex-client-plugin is not available, but is referred to by another package. This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is only available from another source However the following packages replace it: com.plex.client-plugin E: Package plex-client-plugin has no installation candidate what to do now?

gg - November 6, 2010 at 7:53pm

Wow, Plex is pretty nice!