(apple TV 1)How to downgrade to a past nightly
#1
I have been searching and am at my wits end trying to find the answer...
The last nightly 05.15.11 has broken xbmc so it will not save my video calibration. The screen is way beyond the borders and it wont save the adjustments.
I would like to roll back to a previous nightly that I did not have this issue with but can not figure out for the life of me how to do this via SSH.
Could anyone throw me the commands to install a previous nightly I have downloaded and SSH'd to the atv?

Thank you for your assistance.

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#2
Maybe I should go about this a different way. I can downgrade to XBMC 10.1 Dharma but would then like to upgrade to a certain nightly build.
I can download the nightly and place it on my apple tv but then what commands do I use to install the nightly?
Thank for the help!
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Well, Since no one seemed to have the answer to this question I started trying to find a way myself to get this done. Here is what I ended up doing if anyone ever has the same problem I did.

I took the command line from this thread http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=67078
the command to add the nightly updates to your launcher was:
defaults write com.teamxbmc.xbmclauncher XBMCAdditionalDownloadPlistURLs -array-add http://mirrors.xbmc.org/nightlies/osx/update_urls.plist

I copied the update_urls.plist to my pc and edited it. The plist looks like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"><plist version="1.0"><array> <dict> <key>UpdateScript</key> <string>http://atv-xbmc-launcher.googlecode.com/svn/tags/ul-info/scripts/xbmc-nightly_update.sh</string> <key>URL</key> <string>http://mirrors.xbmc.org/nightlies/osx/xbmc-20110515-8b3a9fc-master-x86.dmg</string> <key>Type</key> <string>Application</string> <key>MD5</key> <string>966771ec19664869ac5cb64b21a218bf</string> <key>Name</key> <string>XBMC Rev: 20110515</string> </dict></array></plist>

I then changed it so it would only download the nightly I wanted along with removing the MD5 key check. When finished it looked like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"><plist version="1.0"><array> <dict> <key>UpdateScript</key> <string>http://atv-xbmc-launcher.googlecode.com/svn/tags/ul-info/scripts/xbmc-nightly_update.sh</string> <key>URL</key> <string>http://mirrors.xbmc.org/nightlies/osx/xbmc-20110501-194db82-master-x86.dmg</string> <key>Type</key> <string>Application</string> <key>Name</key> <string>XBMC Rev: 20110501</string> </dict></array></plist>

I then saved it and uploaded it to my dropbox.

Then I used filezilla and went to /mnt/Scratch/Users/frontrow/Library/Preferences and copied the file com.teamxbmc.xbmclauncher.plist to my pc and edited it. I erased every entry inside the file and saved it so it was 0 bytes. then copied it back to the apple tv.
I then ssh'd back into my apple tv and instead of running the command so the launcher will download the latest nightly and install it I put in the link to where the file is on my dropbox Like so:

defaults write com.teamxbmc.xbmclauncher XBMCAdditionalDownloadPlistURLs -array-add http://dl.dropbox.com/u/19094774/update_urls.plist

Now if I want to revert to any nightly I just go to my dropbox and edited the plist with the version I want and save and then on my apple tv it will fetch that nightly.

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