The older, white (plastic) remotes will not work.
Note: This step will require the silver (aluminum) Apple TV remote that was included with the ATV2. Once the light on the front of the Apple TV begins to flash rapidly, point the remote at the AppleTV and hold both the MENU and PLAY/PAUSE buttons for 7 seven seconds.
Step 4: When prompted, connect your Apple TV using a micro-USB cable (leave power disconnected). Step 3: The latest Apple TV software will be downloaded and used to create a custom ‘jailbroken’ software file. Step 2: Select the ‘Create IPSW’ button to start the jailbreak process. Step 1: Unzip the ‘Seas0nPass.zip’ file and launch Seas0nPass. Disconnect any iPods, iPhones, and iPads from your computer.A micro USB cable will be required to complete the jailbreak.
After launching the installer, it will check if your Apple TV is jailbroken before it gives you the option to install the payload.Here is a step by step tutorial on how to tether jailbreak Apple TV 2 5.2.1 using Seas0nPass: You can download nitoTV for tvOS installer from the official website. Once its jailbroken, I use the NIto installer to install Nito and XBmc and do all the upgrades. There are quite a few steps, but its well worth it. On the fire core help forum, it lays out the step-by-step in order to re-jailbreak the device. We are yet to see many useful packages/tweaks being released for jailbroken Apple TV, so let us hope that this kicks off a wave of jailbreak tweaks for Apple TV. Once I was able to get it to connect to ITunes, I was able to restore to the latest software. In case you use greeng0blin for tvOS 10.2.2, which is also developed by Bradley, then it installs nitoTV as well. The installer for nitoTV for tvOS is currently available only for the Mac. Support for tvOS 11 is also expected in the future.
NitoTV supports tvOS 9.x-10.1 and tvOS 10.2.2, which means you would need to jailbreak Apple TV using Pangu for tvOS 9, LiberTV for tvOS 10.x, and greeng0blin for tvOS 10.2.2. How to install XBMC 13.0 Gotham on Apple TV 2 How to get XBMC on your HDTV via Apple TV 3 (or non-jailbreakable Apple TV 2) Top 10 best XBMC addons for Apple TV 1 and Apple TV 2 Be sure to follow Apple TV Hacks on Twitter, Facebook or Google+ for all the latest Apple TV-related news. I would update Apple TV OS and start fresh with new installs of Kodi and Nito tv. With the latest being a tethered boot but there is a newer untethered one than what you use. The lack of a package manager like Cydia that allows you to install, update and uninstall jailbreak tweaks, has been one of the reasons jailbreaks for Apple TV haven’t been popular. There are 2 much newer versions of jail breakable Apple TV out there. NitoTV is a package manager, similar to Cydia for jailbroken iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. It currently works with tvOS 9.x-10.1 and tvOS 10.2.2. If you have jailbroken your Apple TV, then the wait is finally over, Kevin Bradley has released nitoTV for tvOS.