We continue to keep track of Apple TV‘s hacking potential; here’s another quick update of the new hardware.
iFixit confirms that there’s an on-board Bluetooth chip: “The Broadcom BCM4329XKUBG 802.11n Wi-Fi/Bluetooth/FM chip on the Panasonic board is exactly the same as the one we found on the iPad.”
iOS developer Matthias Ringwald tells TUAW that it shouldn’t be hard to get his custom Bluetooth stack running on Apple TV once it’s openly jailbroken. “I managed to hook the communication between BlueTool and BT chipset before, so I can record that exchange on iPad which sets up the Bluetooth chipset and just do a playback. Chances are good.”
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TUAWApple TV hacking update: Bluetooth, white lists, ports, cables originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Mon, 04 Oct 2010 18:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.