The same as Cydia’s Installed (Expert) listing, it shows required system packages too. The final tab is Installed, which lists all the current packages on your device. This is one of the few parts of nitoTV which did not seem fully functional yet, but there is a good reason for that: there aren’t yet any other developers, packages, or repositories made for the Apple TV/nitoTV, so we’ll have to give it some time. This is where third-party repositories will be added, in order to download packages from other developers. Next up is a Search tab, and then a page which will be familiar to all Cydia users: Sources. In my testing, all of these options worked flawlessly, not bad for an initial release.

Here you can update nitoTV itself, prevent your Apple TV from updating (a very handy feature given the device’s propensity for unwanted updates), respring and reboot your device, and more. The adjacent tab is Settings, housing several useful options. Below is the About page which displays developer credits, current installed version, and a useful change-log: With luck, this page will become increasingly populated as developers start to build for the platform.īy scrolling across the tabs at the top of the view you can reach other sections of the app. The layout is much the same as the App Store itself, featuring Top Shelf images for each app and individual information pages which can be viewed when selecting an app. Favourites such as Kodi can be found here, as well as various games and media solutions which Apple would not accept on the App Store. Upon launching nitoTV on your Apple TV you’ll be greeted by the Featured Packages page, a curated selection of apps. To jailbreak any other supported firmwares, use the Mac installer from the nitoTV website. To jailbreak tvOS 10.2.2 with greeng0blin, follow our guide. To find out if you can jailbreak your device, check our advice on the subject. Support for the Apple TV 4K on tvOS 11.0-11.1 is due to arrive in a future update to nitoTV. It requires a jailbreak to work, and currently supports the Apple TV 4 on tvOS 9 (through Pangu), tvOS 10 (through LiberTV10), and tvOS 10.2.2 ( through greeng0blin). NitoTV allows users to install tweaks and unsigned apps to their Apple TVs, much like Cydia does on iOS. Today, we’ll give you an in-depth look at the interface and functionality, as well as our comments on where it could go in the future. A few days ago we wrote about the release of nitoTV, Kevin Bradley’s package manager for jailbroken Apple TVs.

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