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!

  • BananaTrifleViolin@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    23 hours 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.netOPEnglish
      1·
      13 hours 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 👍🏻