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2013-05-22, 14:45
(This post was last modified: 2013-05-22, 14:46 by Ned Scott.)
I'm not a developer, but I wouldn't hold my breath on this. Maybe if someone created an in-between app of some kind, then we could use the ATV3 as a UPnP target, but that's the most I would expect.
Besides, if you have something running XBMC, then you can probably AirPlay mirror to the ATV3. iOS and Mac OS X can do it natively, and there's a 3rd party app for mirroring with Windows and older Macs. It works quite well.
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Mirroring doesn't provide the seamless integration of the xbmc ecosystem that this approach provides. I find it quite elegant, actually. It doesn't require a jailbreak and works equally as well on an atv2 (for any of those who were shut out by the latest update).
I'm no dev either but I will attempt to pick away at some of the Python scripting available and see if I can't move this ahead a little. Baby steps...
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Mirroring is just a wireless display. It's about as seamless as you can get o.O
No jailbreak required for Mac OS X or Windows. Air Parrot is a great product for this. The point being, if you already have a box running XBMC, it might as well be a box that mirrors to the ATV3. It's basically the same thing as trying to have XBMC serve up custom content to the ATV3, but a lot more complete and is something that can be done today.
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I have no opposition, I'm just telling you, no one is going to do it because no one is interested in doing it. The ATV3 is a dead product in our eyes. For less money you can get something more powerful with full XBMC features. There is zero incentive to do some ass-backwards hack that will give people a poor XBMC experience. Good luck finding anyone who wants to work on that.
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Geez, man, like I said I've got your position and if you're speaking for the class then I'll drop it right now...
If you're not would you kindly just step to the side a little ?
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I thought you would feel lonely talking to yourself :/
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If you follow the general responses on this forum you'll realize the ATV3 is held in the same regard as the PS3. They may be decent devices for what they're designed to be, but as far as XBMC goes they're dead ducks.
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Ya I'm getting that now. Thanks for the candor, even you Ned :D
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Ahhh, hell. I despise the very dirt Steve Jobs sleeps in and I echo Ned Scott's sentiment, but in the interest of completeness....
This CAN be done with a service addon. You just need to launch a simple web server to respond to the atv's requests with the appropriate xml. It's reinventing a worse version of the wheel, but if you're hell bent on it, there ya go.
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Not really sacrilege, but just kind of... a lot of work for little pay off (at least in our eyes). At least in context to XBMC.
I actually find this exploit to be very interesting. Long before I even joined TeamXBMC, I've been big into jailbreaking, and big into pushing things beyond their designed intentions :)
I wish luck to those who can find interesting ways to use it. Maybe even use it as some kind of attack vector for a jailbreak.