Adding Sites on jailbroken Device without Add Site button

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Adding Sites on jailbroken Device without Add Site button

Closed this issue 11 years ago · 6 comments

I might have overlooked it, but is it possible to add custom channels as web apps on a jailbroken ATV but without the Add Site button?

Answer 1 · 2013-10-04T16:03:32.000Z

You can do that -- directly edit the file at /User/Library/Application
Support/Front Row/ExtraInternetCategories.plist. Each entry in the array
is a dictionary, with two key/value pairs: Name (I've only ever seen
that empty), and url.

I just updated the blog post with this, and a little more information on
how apple killed the feature for older units.

david.

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Answer 2 · 2013-10-04T17:15:39.000Z

Great, thanks!
But either I'm doing something wrong, or one has to do more than just add that file.
My fresh ATV had no ExtraInternetCategories.plist, so I created one and a matching bag.plist.
But I get no icon...

Interestingly the ATV creates a Merchants/ Folder, so it reads the bag file.
Any general ideas?

Answer 3 · 2013-10-04T19:37:34.000Z

You might still need to add the Enable Add Site profile for it to look for the Extra plist file.

Answer 4 · 2013-10-04T19:55:24.000Z

That solved it.

Answer 5 · 2013-10-04T19:57:57.000Z

Cool. There's probably a way to add those defaults to a JB device manually as well so you don't need the mobileconfig..

Answer 6 · 2013-10-04T21:34:12.000Z

You can set this default manually as so:

Apple-TV:/User/Library/Preferences root# ~/plutil -c xml1 com.apple.frontrow.plist
Converting com.apple.frontrow.plist to XML

Apple-TV:/User/Library/Preferences root# vim com.apple.frontrow.plist # edit to add section below
Apple-TV:/User/Library/Preferences root# tail -10 com.apple.frontrow.plist
    <true/>
                        <key>F2BE6C81-66C8-4763-BDC6-385D39088028</key>
                        <dict>
                            <key>EnableAddSite</key>
                            <true/>
                            <key>AddSiteLoggingURL</key>
                            <string>http://localhost/log</string>
                        </dict>
</dict>
</plist>

Apple-TV:/User/Library/Preferences root# killall AppleTV
Apple-TV:/User/Library/Preferences root# cycript -p AppleTV # verify flag is enabled
cy# ATVSettingsFacade.singleton.addSiteIsEnabled
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