Force restart out of XBMC without unplugging ATV2?

[DrEnalg]

.... and without ATV2 remote? I've tried "killall AppleTV" and "killall LowTide" in Terminal via SSH, and that doesn't seem to work. Just found out my newly-paired six dollar cheapo universal remote doesn't do a force restart either.

Any ideas? Obviously I'm trying to avoid buying a new ATV2 stick-of-chewing-gum remote.

 

[roidy]

I'm not quite sure what you're asking but this should work:-

IOS 4.0

killall -9 Lowtide

IOS 4.1 or above

killall -9 AppleTV

 

[DefBref]

Pressing menu and down on the remote for about 5 seconds will force the atv2 to restart.

 

[DrEnalg]

Pressing menu and down on the remote for about 5 seconds will force the atv2 to restart.

Yeah, except not on the after-market universal remote I paired with the ATV2. I'm just trying to find some method for force-restarting lowtide or force-quitting XBMC without unplugging the ATV2.

As a slight aside, anyone with know-how and/or programming chops think there might be some sort of way to send a signal from one's ios device to the ATV2 (via SSH I guess?) to force restart the ATV2? Would be nice....

 

[roidy]

I'm just trying to find some method for force-restarting lowtide or force-quitting XBMC without unplugging the ATV2.

I gave you the answer Oh and you're welcome by the way.....

 

[DrEnalg]

I gave you the answer Oh and you're welcome by the way.....

Yes! Thank you. I'll probably give it a shot tonight. Sorry - I have no attention span. Easy to mistake as lack of gratitude, I suppose.

Still would be nice to have a (probably JB) app be able to do it from my ios device...

 

[roidy]

There's got to be an ssh app for jailbroken iOS devices and then if you could find an app to record a macro of you running the killall command, that might work.

 

[DrEnalg]

There's got to be an ssh app for jailbroken iOS devices and then if you could find an app to record a macro of you running the killall command, that might work.

Good thought. I'll get on that - I think I've played with recording macros before, long time ago.

 

[Iizsupaer]

I haven't tried this more than once but it seems like a logical work around. If you have an iPhone/iPad or other product that allows AirPlay- send a picture from that device to your ATV2 and it seems to force quit XBMC. Cheers.

 

[waw74]

reboot

will restart the aTV