[rare.uk]

Hi,
Question: How do I remove entries from mediasources.xml using vi, as vi doesn't seem to exist on my apple TV 2

Background:
loving XBMC - taken me two days to stabilize it on Apple TV software 4.3 build 8F455, but now fine on a nightly build - even though I did get errors in the install - takes me back to my old XBOX days running XBMC

Got a question. I was reading about how FTP, and upnp is faster than SMB - don't know if this is true - so in System => File Manager, after enabling FTP on my NAS drive, I added new FTP / SFTP sources.

Upon adding the new FTP (and SFTP) sources some of them said can't access the resource add anyway, so I said yes, thinking I could edit/delete later as I knew some of the paths were wrong.

Now I can't delete/edit them. When I hold Menu, there is no context menu for the FTP and SFTP sources like there is for my SMB entries.

So went to /private/var/mobile/Library/Preferences/XBMC/userdata and there was a mediasources.xml file, with a timestamp of when I added the paths containing the following:
<mediasources>
<network>
<location id="1">smb://NASDRIVE/music/</location>
<location id="2">smb://NASDRIVE/photo/Us/</location>
<location id="2">sftp://<account>:<password>@NAS_IP_ADDRESS:22/Videos/01Kids</location>
<location id="3">ftp://<account>:<password>@NAS_IP_ADDRESS:22//video/01Kids</location>
<location id="4">ftp://<account>:<password>@NAS_IP_ADDRESS:22/video/01Kids</location>
<location id="5">smb://NASDRIVE/video/01Kids/</location>
<location id="6">ftp://<account>:<password>@NAS_IP_ADDRESS:22/video/01Movies</location>
<location id="7">smb://NASDRIVE/video/01Movies/</location>
</network>
</mediasources>

So thought I'd remove them from there but I can't find vi to edit the file. Also in sources.xml there are no FTP sources listed, in-case you are wondering.

I hope that makes sense and thank you for reading this lengthy (and probably not very clear post)

[Ned Scott]

If you have NitoTV installed have it install Erica Utilities. It will install a bunch of stuff like vi.

or SSH in and

apt-get install com.ericasadun.utilities

I think

[g-off]

you should be able to
apt-get install vim
To install Vi Improved. I think Nano is there too.

[rare.uk]

Thank you for that.

I had installed the Erica Utilities via Nito TV, don't know what it added, but sadly no vi. Ran the command at OS level and nothing happened i.e:
com.ericasadun.utilities is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.


The command
apt-get install vim
worked a treat. Edited the file fingers crossed.

Just found the webgui for XBMC how awesome is XBMC!