Repurposing 3rd Gen Rev A Apple TV (slrpnk.net)

submitted 1 month ago by Sleightly@slrpnk.net to c/homeassistant@lemmy.world

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My 3rd Gen Rev A Apple TV (Model A1469) has been sitting around in a drawer for a long time and I was considering recycling it. But it works perfectly (minus the drawbacks of it having old technology) and I can’t stand the idea of wasting something useful. Is it possible to repurpose it for Home Assistant? I’m still working on getting started with HA - is it possible to use this to run the OS?

How else could I repurpose this? Has anyone else successfully done something like this?

Any help that explains like I’m 5 will also be especially appreciated since I am still learning these things 🙏🏻

Thanks!

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[-] BananaTrifleViolin@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

As per your other thread, incase others are interested. I dont own one but on searching options seem to be limited. It can be jail broken and Kodi installed.

That may be a jumping off point for doing more but I can't see that anyone has successfully installed linux on it for example.

https://github.com/NSSpiral/Blackb0x

[-] Sleightly@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 month ago

Thanks for the link! It sounds to me that Kodi wouldn’t be as useful of a jump forward as I was imagining. Shame. Thanks for contributing 👍🏻

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