Openssl req -new -nodes -newkey rsa:2048 -out ~/Desktop/ trailers.pem -keyout ~/Desktop/ trailers.key -x509 -days 7300 -subj “/C=US/CN= ” Extract and drag PlexConnect-master to the Applications folderĤ. Open a terminal window (Terminal.app on Mac) and run the following command Here are the consolidated instructions (from ) for Mac OS X:ģ.

If you have the same situation then in the instructions below replace of “trailers” with “wsjapp” and replace of “” with “ video – api – secure. But since I didn’t have the Trailers app on my Apple TV, I used the WSJ app instead. Normally the hijacked app is the Trailers app. Of course, the hijacked app won’t work as before anymore. PlexConnect then communicates with Plex Media Server and serves up modified UI and content to the hijacked app on the Apple TV. So it was a matter of hijacking the web traffic to from one of these apps and redirect it to PlexConnect running on local machine. And it is genius! You see, some of the built-in Apple TV apps get their UI and content from remote web servers. At least not directly.įortunately, there is a workaround: PlexConnect. So it can’t play from from Plex Media Server either. There’s no app store for the Apple TV (yet) so there’s not installing and running the Plex Player app. Not from AFP, not from SMB, not from DLNA.

The Apple TV is a nifty little device but it’s nowhere close to being able to play anything you want.

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