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The Humble Weekly Sale, featuring Serious Sam (pay what you want and help charity)
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If you, like me, had an Apple TV3 lying unused in a Box due its limited feature set, rejoice!
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If you, like me, had an Apple TV3 lying unused in a Box due its limited feature set, rejoice! http://elan.plexapp.com/2013/06/04/introducing-plexconnect-an-appletv-client-which-thinks-different/ The GitHub site where the file is hosted mentions Windows & OSX Instructions. I got it working on Ubuntu without too much effort. Just need to spend more time making it work as a service. Maybe somebody can help me out there. Rough notes on my blog http://istoff.blogspot.com/ Being able to use the ATV3 to view my Ubuntu hosted Plex Library is just awesome! http://elan.plexapp.com/2013/06/04/introducing-plexconnect-an-appletv-client-which-thinks-different/
Installing PlexConnect on Linux (Ubuntu 13.04)
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Quite easy although still working out the kinks. PlexConnect is a bit of magic python code that allows you to access your Plex Library on an stock Apple TV 3. For somebody who had an Apple TV 3 unplugged and packed away, this has made the device useful again. I have read back through my command line history and found all the commands I typed in sequentially to get it running. Optional If you don't have git or nano installed : sudo apt-get install git-core nano I'm pretty sure most Ubuntu boxes have python pre-installed. git clone https://github.com/iBaa/PlexConnect.git cd PlexConnect/ nano Settings.py sudo ./PlexConnect.py LINUX SIDE DONE! What could go wrong?? 1) I got an error that port 53 was in use trying to activate the DNSServer. Fix: In my case, I had started dnsmasq in a previous experiment, so I KILLED it quickly. sudo killall dnsmasq ( I will disable the dnsmasq service later ) 2) Next I got a message that ...