So that's it?
It's all over like that? No way to overcome HTTPS?
If it's just HTTPS that's fine. If its checking for DNS spoofing that's going to be another massive issue, if Apple have chosen to kill it on purpose I'm going to be one angry person.
Hopefully it's something small with an update we can push out.
I just generated my own https server with python. Looks like selfsigned certs are not ok. I'll try to inject it into my ATV2's trusted store next.
Well my Mac Mini ain't going under the tv anymore. Got the Apple tv just to get the noisy mini tucked away serving as a Plex media server. Good thing Plex runs on Linux, going fanless, noiseless with a mini Linuxbox looks to be my next step.
It's never gonna stop with them apples...
I am also wondering if it would be possible to install a Proxy Server configuration with the Apple Configurator tool (on OSX) and use MITMPROXY for instance...
Now that I looked at the network capture a bit more, I can see that they change from HTTPS back to HTTP after a while. The capture contains after the HTTPS traffic the following:
GET /appletv/us/index.xml HTTP/1.1
Well we could use a MITMProxy at least in theory anyway.
I'm sure there will be a work around at some point, we will need to look through the requests, see if we can intercept and modify the HTTPS traffic and then redirect back the way it was.
I just don't get why they do this stuff, to be honest I doubt this was just for Plex seeing it's affected all the channels and it was probably to put HTTPS on everything, still this is just crap.
Damn Apple. Piece of ■■■■.
Any other product with robust Plex support that has also built in wifi? I just used apple tv for my plex viewing.
So anyone know of any other similar products with easy to work with plex?
Damn Apple. Piece of ■■■■.
Any other product with robust Plex support that has also built in wifi? I just used apple tv for my plex viewing.
So anyone know of any other similar products with easy to work with plex?
Roku Works pretty well. I'm not sure if the same is true for the new Roku 3, but when I had a Roku 2 it used the Plex Web type of connection. It wasn't a direct stream like PlexConnect is/DLNA
Damn Apple. Piece of ■■■■.
Any other product with robust Plex support that has also built in wifi? I just used apple tv for my plex viewing.
So anyone know of any other similar products with easy to work with plex?
You could use a Roku, Raspberry Pi, Chromecast (down the track), there are other options for it. The ATV made it nice and easy, however the Roku does have a full client for use.
They do this because they are Apple. It is their device, their OS and so if they find something that could possibly be exploited for bad, they lock it down. Their reasoning will be that if you want content on your ATV then just use iTunes, be it with content purchased via the iTunes store, or your own ripped content, in mp4 format imported / converted to / by iTunes, ie; in the iTunes Library.
It is a shame. Perhaps they will come up with an ATV SDK and then App Store so developers can create proper applications and we'll hopefully then have a real plex ATV app (no disrespect to the PlexConnect team intended).
One hopes this is just a glitch with the new channels appearing which will be fixed, but I'd not be at all shocked if Apple is being their typical selves and locking off things because they cannot control it.
Actually, has anyone disabled PlexConnect, changed DNS back and checked to see if the trailers app works normally, i.e.; accesses trailers? Perhaps I missed a post in the thread but I did not see if anyone had tried this. Perhaps trailers is borked in normal operation as it is under 5.4 beta 4?
I'm sure if there is a workaround to this problem it will be found. If there isn't, then I wish to thank everyone that worked on PlexConnect, you have and continue to do a great job :)
I did a full restore on my ATV just to try that out and Trailers worked fine until I changed the DNS to my Server, then I got the same message as everyone else "Trailers is Unavailable"
Ok they have redone the Trailers channel. What I'm doing now is using PlexConnect normally. Then I have little python program that proxies all requests coming to port 443.
Now I can see that Trailers Channel tries to get all kind of javascripts from PlexConnect and gets stuck.
So the top bar is now generated from the HTTPS traffic but the contentof the top bar items are fetched via HTTP.
They try to fetch atleast following URLs with http:
http://trailers.apple.com/appletv/us/js/main.js
http://trailers.apple.com/appletv/us/js/Trailers.js
http://trailers.apple.com/appletv/us/js/Trailers.Showtimes.js
I really feel so bad for the plexconnect guys, all this hard work over the past months to have it all stopped like nothing ever happened, apple (whomever made the changes or had this done) are pure dicks.
Damn Apple. Piece of ■■■■.
Any other product with robust Plex support that has also built in wifi? I just used apple tv for my plex viewing.
So anyone know of any other similar products with easy to work with plex?
I was using Western Digital - WD TV Live with Plex before PlexConnect came along
http://wdc.com/en/products/products.aspx?id=330
Have reverted back to it and it works very well with Plex,
but PlexConnect made the Apple TV as good as the WD TV Live (except that the WD TV Live plays many more audio formats - FLAC, APE and video options like DVD images and has 2 USB ports for attaching HD's directly) though Apple TV has Airplay, which I use a lot. WD TV Live's interface is surprisingly stylish and up there with Apple's design sense.
Apple needs to allow a PLEX or DLNA channel to make the Apple TV fully useful.
Looks like best way to get PlexConnect to work again is to block this channel upgrade somehow. So to get old firmware back into the device and then find a way to prevent channels from been upgraded.
I am just back to airplaying Plex from my iPad which works wonderfully but I liked having Plex on my ATV as it freed up my ipad for other things and gave us a great GUI to access my library. Hopefully a work around can be developed.
This has been the summer of Plexconnect (a lazy summer for me, so Plex and Plexconnect have been fun and useful) and I hail the Plexconnect team (Baa, Roidy and f00b4r) for all the amazing work they have put in.
Got it working again. I'll write up the steps shortly. You'll need to install a self-signed cert onto the Apple TV and also use a patched version of PlexConnect that listens on both 443 (serving the certificate+key pair you generate) and also port 80. At that point it works just fine.
That was fun :)
And how would you install this on an ATV that was not jailbroken? I detect a troll.
There’s a thread here somewhere claiming to get plexc going with the wsj app, is this a possible avenue?
