Over Thanksgiving break I bought an Apple TV. Like any good geek I wanted to expand the capability of the unit beyond the default setup.
After installing Firefox and getting USB keyboard and mouse support going, I realized that it would be tremendously cool if I could control it from my iPhone instead of using a wired keyboard.
To begin with I installed OSXvnc. The only problem was that I needed to store a password. After reading a the VNC post on the aTV Flash forum, I successfully conquered that. However, I had the same problem that iMattUK had: you had to use an ssh connection to start it.
To conquer this I wrote a launchd plist to launch OSXvnc for me at system startup. Read on for the process I used to get it all working.
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