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>ssh -v 192.168.1.101. Debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey debug1: Next authentication method: publickey debug1: Offering public key: debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey debug1: Offering public key: debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey debug1: No more authentication methods to try. Permission denied (publickey). I'm pretty sure port 22 was open when I first got the box a couple of weeks ago – before it got any upgrades.

So what's the public key?:) Telnet port is closed. I had better clarify Offering public key: The 's were put there by me. They just contain text saying where on my filesystem my public keys are being read from. For a user 'john' (not me!) it would look something like this Offering public key: /home/john/.ssh/id_rsa Offering public key: /home/john/.ssh/id_dsa Naturally the T-box doesnt want john's public key – it wants one (probably) from Telstra/Bigpond but possibly Netgem.

However even having the right public key encrypted with the right technique (rsa, dsa, other) may not be enough to get in via ssh. I imagine it's because they want you to buy movies from BigPond rather than use your own downloaded via BitTorrent;) I would say that's exactly the reason, but this product is aimed at the non tech savy mum and dad market who wouldn't know how. But if it can be opened up it will also put the option to download a High Def movies into the homes of thousands that otherwise wouldn't have. So it's win win I think. And even though I do a lot of BT work I would be also interested in buying HD quality product once in a while. And even god forbid switching to BP.

One box to rule them all! One box to rule them all! One Bigpond to bring them all and in the internet bind them:P Another reason companies often lock products is to prevent mum and dad users from screwing them up, which I agree with. But I agree with you that the level of locking should be enough to keep the n00bs out, but not so much that you need a team of hackers and a supercomputer to get through it. I'm not sure about the name to be honest though, I had a customer the other day to whom I said 'Do you have a T-box, ma'am', and she gave me a death stare until I explained what I meant.

I think she though I was being rude or something? Interesting (and dodgy) that they have a USB adapter Why is it dodgy? Its good manufacturing practise, why re-invent the wheel? Look at majority of your notebooks now days.

Do yuo think the wireless adapters (wifi, blutooth & wwan) are all built into the mainboard? Definatly not the dev costs of having a dozen different variants to cater for diffrernt standards around the world would make the whole thing uneconomical & then what do you do if someone deosn't want wwan?

You can't just pull teh board out can you? All they are doing is taking an off the shelf wifi usb stick & using it as its ment to be used. There is nothing wrong with this.

In fact, you could pull teh usb stick out of the tbox & plug it into your PC & it would work fins (provided you can find teh correct driver). Why is it dodgy? Its good manufacturing practise, why re-invent the wheel?

IT DEFINITELY IS DODGY!! Why install a USB modem which you need extra software to make work – hence what is failing in the cases where customers are experiencing issues between their wireless routers. All they are doing is taking an off the shelf wifi usb stick & using it as its ment to be used. There is nothing wrong with this.

Meant to be used? Using something which is a slow and poor stopgap measure to give older computers without wireless, wireless capabilities for the average user who is too afraid to take out the two screws and install one of the inbuilt PCI or PCMCIA which both runs faster as the PCI interface has a much greater bandwidth for data AND will deliver more power to the wireless device allowing for greater signal range. Look at majority of your notebooks now days. Do yuo think the wireless adapters (wifi, blutooth & wwan) are all built into the mainboard? You are correct here, they are not – BUT they don't use USB ports INSIDE the computer – this would be a stupid waste of space and money.

We don't want them to build in the WiFi card onto the board – we just want them to use the correct WiFi card for the job, of which a USB WiFi IS NOT!! I find the majority of the WLAN cards in Laptops are using mini PCI(-E) sockets. Which in the case of wireless network devices often have an electronic signal connection to a USB port.

PCI Express Mini Card (also known as Mini PCI Express, Mini PCIe, and Mini PCI-E) is a replacement for the Mini PCI form factor based on PCI Express. It is developed by the PCI-SIG. The host device supports both PCI Express and USB 2.0 connectivity, and each card uses whichever the designer feels most appropriate to the task. You should search based on the netgem product, not the t-box.

If it is a netgem box I will be steering clear of it. I have a STB here with TEAC badge but is a netgem and there was hype about it being able to update firmware etc but the stupid thing was obsolete in 12 mths because they released a new model and then no updates were available.

Hopefully they have changed and offer ongoing updates instead of releasing new hardware and abandoning the old stuff but anyway, I have just found myself a reason to not get one:P. Which in the case of wireless network devices often have an electronic signal connection to a USB port. I said sockets because I meant the actual physical connector:) It would be interesting if anyone pulled the HDD out of the T-Box and see what it's formatted in.

I'm guessing ext3 seeing as it's using Linux. Hopefully they have changed and offer ongoing updates instead of releasing new hardware and abandoning the old stuff but anyway, I have just found myself a reason to not get one:P Telstra supply the firmware updates for the T-Box. Been a few so far. Hey folks I got a T-box but would never go to BigPond due to reasons I would rather talk on another topic. So I understand if I don't have BP internet then its kinda useless, but here's a thought which I will try. Connect my T-box via a Telstra wireless internet connection, either USB which may consume less power compare to a WIFI gateway. Since Telstra wireless would still allow free BP contents so i don't see a problem with t-box using EPG and BP TV.

Only issue i can imagine is if it ask for a BP username and password, a friend should be happy to supply me with his. Let me know if you have tried this, I will post updated. PS XBMC on T-Box would roxor, I'm still using an old xbox as my ultimate media playa atm. CONFIRM WILL NOT WORK HERE. @axelr8 link is invalid @sbb23 ok go buy it and stop wasting our time with your posts. @Moon_Man s site would be great, not sure how to trap packets i have no linux background. Maybe user 'zfeet' can help Ok boys.

With re to my previous post about using T-Box with no BigPond account. I have managed a BigPond IP address with a Telstra pre-paid wireless broadband service. I can't reveal the method etc. As the may block it once its public.

But Yes it can be done if you want full functions of T-Box with no BP account. With regards to un metered BP contents from your Telstra Prepaid, I am running some tests. Will update more once i have more details *narf*. Unfortunetly its not that usefull, you need Wireshark data etc to see what POST's are being sent to allow the XML data to be pulled for actually accessing the IPTV content.

Im sure this would also include a Specific USER-AGENT. Id say without too much effort you could replicate the EPG outside of the T-BOX, but not having one yet i cant get any data. If the update server is setup anything like the most other netgems, you will be able to get the update file directly if the right user-agent data is sent. The, 411321.gz etc appears to be a particular channel, the bit where it does the INFO, would expect to yield the list of names for those channel ID's.

Without info generating the full EPG isnt so easy, as the channelID is localised to all the different areas. You need Wireshark data etc to see what POST's are being sent Defiantly a good idea, although from my logs it looks like all of the requests are GETs. But in saying that, I just tried to pull some IPTV API data using the T-Box user-agent but I got a 400-Bad Request error from the server. So my request was clearly missing something that the server expected. I am going to use wireshark to capture some data and see what that turns up. Im sure this would also include a Specific USER-AGENT. Squid tells me that the T-Box user-agent is: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows 98; Linux 2.4.36.2-tangox) [Netgem; 5.1.96-21; i-Player; netbox; telstra].

Squid tells me that the T-Box user-agent is: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows 98; Linux 2.4.36.2-tangox) [Netgem; 5.1.96-21; i-Player; netbox; telstra] its this one..889 248 10.0.0.137 TCP_MISS/200 20794 POST – DIRECT/203.42.92.6 text/xml that should reveal some of the xmltv API, as once it does that it then is pulling teh channel data. Another Important WireShark would be a Full reset/Setup of Box that is already registered, too see how it handles registering the MAC of the device etc, and similar for an unregistered box.

Couldn't get wireshark to work very good for me (wasn't get any packets other than broadcasts) so I used some other tools to grab some data from the same server my squid proxy is on. Have a look at: where I have dumped a few files with various bits and pieces of output.

I think the the squid logs with gets and a? Have actually dropped the full GET requests Yeah, my bad, by default squid strips query terms. You were heading in the right direction, it actually turns out to be: Which redirects to a html page on netgem's website which appears to use javascript to build determine if the T-Box needs an update and if so builds the link and redirects to an upgrade.bin file. I didn't spend too much time with the html page but I would guess that it wouldn't be too hard to extract a URL for the current T-Box firmware and then it wouldn't be too hard to swap the upgrade html page for one that redirects to a 'customised' or more generic netgem firmware. Another thing that I was personally interested in was the EPG data. I was able to log request and responses for most of an EPG update and you can see the results at: The first file in the series (watch0010.txt) is the initial request from the T-Box for an EPG update is a HTTP POST request where the T-Box uses XML containing a list of channel IDs to request the channels that it wants EPG data for.

I wasn't able to capture anything to do with an activation because even after resetting my T-Box settings it was somehow able to detect that I had already activated my T-Box. I bridge either 2 ethernet or 1 wifi + 1 ethernet, so my PC bridge interface gets all data across the interface when wiresharked. I think the POST, is sending your Channel IDs from the mux's on your FTA channels.

The upgrade.html is interesting as it appears to be able to do actually access a few system functions, i wonder what kind of man in the middle you could do with that, one of which seems to be around SSH. It obviously needs a registered MAC address before it will respond tho. The upgrade file line is here var file = path + oem + '/' + hw.split('-').slice(0, 2).join('-') + '/' + version + '/upgrade.bin'; so @ at guess.

Its at least which gives forbidden, (telstra) being the OEM in the above), rather than 404 if u try something else. Now work out hw.split, and we have upgrade.bin.

For educational purpose only, I now have a fully functional t-box with unmetered contents via a telstra pre-paid wireless internet. Only the bigpond video doesnt work due to a wireless connection? You will need a working telstra prepaid account with a router or some way to connecting your tbox to that internet, once connected save all settings. Disconnect, change apn to telstra.bigpond (no login details required or try password abc123. Do not save) then connect.

You would now have an ip of either 58.163.175.132 or 58.163.175.133 if you are successful with connecting with the bigpond apn your tbox would register this connection as a full bigpond service. I have tested this method on a 3g21wb model only. Let me know if this also works on anything else guys. IANAL, but i suspect Netgem is on questionable Legal ground with the source they distribute.

The GPL says 'The source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for making modifications to it. For an executable work, complete source code means all the source code for all modules it contains, plus any associated interface definition files, plus the scripts used to control compilation and installation of the executable.'

They have removed the Makefiles from busybox, so its not 'complete source code' according to the GPL. Perhaps more importantly, without providing a way to generate the firmware image, the executable cant be installed, so they may not be providing 'complete source code' from that point of view either.

I have advised the Software Freedom Law Center, but not sure if they will want to get involved. (and maybe im being pedantic). Couldn't get wireshark to work very good for me (wasn't get any packets other than broadcasts) so I used some other tools to grab some data from the same server my squid proxy is on. Strangely I'm getting the same thing. If I switch to the laptop/iPhone etc, the screen is filled with packets, but when filtering eg: ip.addr == 10.0.0.4 is this how you're doing it?I barely get a thing. Certainly nothing interesting.

Im sure this would also include a Specific USER-AGENT. Has anyone worked out what the authentication method might be? When going to any address that the T-Box normally hits I get: INVALID_DEVICE_TYPE API can only be accessed with a valid device type. Debug message is disabled. Hopefully Bigpond isn't logging PC hits to these pages or I might get a knock on the door;-). I barely get a thing. Certainly nothing interesting.

I changed the way I had things setup, similar to what 3x0dus says here: As for authentication it appears to require the T-Box UA for most request and when the T-Box checks for new firmware it tells the server what it's MAC address is. So far nothing I have seen the T-Box do would be difficult to intercept. Can't you Linux Guru's pull this upgrade apart to see how it all works? This is the part that I got stuck on. There is a few different versions of some C code that has been used to extract the filesystems from the firmware, but with each different release Netgem changes the encoding/offsets slightly.

Unfortunately I wouldn't have the slightest idea how to reverse engineer the firmware file to find the correct encoding/offsets. Hello learned people, I'm struggling to get an answer to a question. The T-Box has 2 USB sockets to enable connection of a USB device to move FTA recordings off the T-Box HDD to free up space. T-Box technical support are unable to advise the maximum size of a device connected to these sockets. As discussed above, it's 'Linux inside', which means it can work with FAT32 or ext2-4. All that tech support can say is that if you connect anything bigger than 16GB (!) the T-Box 'goes silly'.

I can attest to that – connecting a 1TB HDD indeed makes the T-Box go silly (it starts and reboots in what seems to be an infinite loop – no error message). OK, so it looks like 1TB FAT32 isn't a goer. If I reformat the drive to ext3 is Linux likely to be happier? Umm Has anyone connected a USB stick with movies on it (in different formats i.e AVI mpeg etc) into the SECOND USB socket inside the box, next to the wifi stick? I have tried it on all usb ports.

Even the one with the wifi usb stick. I found the wifi stick works on all usb ports & the kids WII.

(saved me buying one LOL) Anyway, I hope someone has luck on breaking the stalemate of the tbox. Would like to get an old unit and really go to town on it. Erasing everything and starting from scratch.

Just to see if that would work. Telstra have clearly violated the GPL, it was covered on a few news sites (google Telstra + GPL for info).

As a copyright holder i will do my best to hold them to account. It's funny to think that anybody would actually believe telstra would be stupid enough to allow for them to be in the situation just reading most of the license, it does say that if telstra doesn't want to release the source code, they do not have to, they maintain the right to choose who they give the source code to and if they don't want to give it to you, they don't have to have fun though Chris. It's funny to think that anybody would actually believe telstra would be stupid enough to allow for them to be in the situation If you read the license and did not act like a fanboy you would clearly see they broke it! It's funny to think that anybody would actually believe telstra would be stupid enough to allow for them to be in the situation just reading most of the license, it does say that if telstra doesn't want to release the source code, they do not have to, they maintain the right to choose who they give the source code to and if they don't want to give it to you, they don't have to have fun though Chris No.

Put on your glasses and read again. The GPL states you must release source or offers to distribute source if you distribute GPL software. Its not funny at all. In fact it s fairly ridiculous that Telstra either didn't know or thought they could ignore the license.

This is undoubtedly an ARM proc, and there is no stable XBMC port to arm. If it's actually a Netgem N8000 () (as some people have implied), then it's a MIPS device with dedicated decoder hardware onboard in the SoC.. So, as you say, no XBMC. Furthermore, the graphics chip and the decoding chip most probably don't have opensource drivers anyway.

It might still be possible to build something around the included kernel & binary modules, but it's probably a lot of work. Tweaking the existing firmware is more likely, if someone reverse engineers the firmware update process. If you read the license and did not act like a fanboy you would clearly see they broke it! It clearly states in multiple sections that telstra do not have to release the source code if they do not want to, it would be a different case if they were charging you for the software I'm afraid that you are simply wrong.

The restrictions in the GPL do not refer to sale, merely distribution (this is a frequent misunderstanding of 'free software', it is free as in 'free speech' not free as in 'free beer'.) which will probably end up in them removing the software in question, and replacing it with another The entire product is built on a foundation of the Linux kernel and busybox. SigmaDesigns does ship a Windows CE BSP for the SoC in the TBox, but the suggestion that they would rebuild the entire product from scratch around this is laughable. Especially as Netgem appear to have released the GPL-licensed source code in an effort to comply. It's worth noting that GPL does not oblige Telstra/Netgem to release source code for the entire product, merely the GPL licensed portions of it. It's unlikely that any of the user interface code, for example, will come under GPL. (It would be different if that code was linked into GPL licensed code, but I expect this will not be the case.) i really do not care as if i want a media PC, i'd build one Yet you come here just to spread misinformation and FUD about GPL and the reality of the situation? Yet you come here just to spread misinformation and FUD about GPL and the reality of the situation?

No, just thought i'd give a different side rather than these people who are going 'OMG GPL LICENSE EVERYBODY CARES ABOUT IT.wait, whats GPL? *googles* OH YEAH TELSTRA IS CLEARLY BREAKING IT' like i said, the one thing telstra does do is cover its back, and i highly doubt telstra would release a product and get in this situation but hey, believe what you want. I hope they don't release the source code anyway. I highly doubt telstra would release a product and get in this situation I don't doubt it at all. These things tend to be handled by marketing people, who have little or no clue about the real world. They also probably relied on NetGem, their supplier of the boxes.

I hope they don't release the source code anyway. In the end I don't think they'll be able to get away with not doing it. As a large corporate, they are a perfect target for the various foundations and associations. I don't want to be on the other end of the phone telling some retard that he broke the warranty when he hacked his tbox and bricked it And that's the real crux of the matter, because you know that 'tard is then going to run to the TIO (after every 2nd person on WP tells them to) and Telstra will end up having to replace the box, because it's cheaper than the TIO fees and time to fight it, or the TIO will tell them they have to anyway. Hi All as I've been following this thread intently and find it extremely funny that as soon as some one tried to defend Telstra that they get flamed for being fanboi's just for you this is the part of the GPL that defends Telstra and it not requiring it to give you anything Does the GPL require that source code of modified versions be posted to the public? The GPL does not require you to release your modified version, or any part of it. You are free to make modifications and use them privately, without ever releasing them.

This applies to organizations (including companies), too; an organization can make a modified version and use it internally without ever releasing it outside the organization. But if you release the modified version to the public in some way, the GPL requires you to make the modified source code available to the program's users, under the GPL.

Thus, the GPL gives permission to release the modified program in certain ways, and not in other ways; but the decision of whether to release it is up to you. Can I have a GPL-covered program and an unrelated non-free program on the same computer? If I know someone has a copy of a GPL-covered program, can I demand he give me a copy? The GPL gives him permission to make and redistribute copies of the program if he chooses to do so. He also has the right not to redistribute the program, if that is what he chooses. This is from Have Fun. Just for you this is the part of the GPL that defends Telstra and it not requiring it to give you anything But if you release the modified version to the public in some way, the GPL requires you to make the modified source code available to the program's users, under the GPL.

I would call it has having been released. But that's ok, you just read the parts you want too. Heck you didn't even read the part you posted properly. Free Download Song Baby Doll Main Sone Di Video. The GPL does not require you to release your modified version, or any part of it.

You are free to make modifications and use them privately, without ever releasing them. Get a different job if you feel that strongly about it. Not calling anybody a retard, as there is nobody who've bricked their tbox and called up support to have it replaced Just saying it would probably happen Hmmmm retard!! Shows a lot of respect for the very clients who provide the money to pay the CSR's. Oh, so somebody has already bricked their tbox? Well i mean by purpose, i've had tbox's that bricked themself but in that instance it was of no fault of the customer. And you come here as a clear telstra employee bashing the GPL based on doubt.

Sorta, just giving my opinion I'm sorry it does not match yours I would call it has having been released. Show me how you can obtain a copy of the tbox software if you want to say tbox, show me how you can get the software off the tbox anyway it appears an open mind is not permitted here, i'll stop posting Chris. Continual reading the GNU I just found out that a company has a copy of a GPL'ed program, and it costs money to get it. Aren't they violating the GPL by not making it available on the Internet? The GPL does not require anyone to use the Internet for distribution. It also does not require anyone in particular to redistribute the program. And (outside of one special case), even if someone does decide to redistribute the program sometimes, the GPL doesn't say he has to distribute a copy to you in particular, or any other person in particular.

Just saying it would probably happen In which case, i don't want to be on the other end of the phone telling some retard that he broke the warranty when he hacked his tbox and bricked it There's nothing to take out of context. Update 9/11: Today Netgem have posted a new version of their GPL source, labelled “T-Box”. I’ve also been contacted personally today by a Telstra representative about the T-Hub product. Both things are excellent to see, Telstra do appear to be taking this very seriously. Will post any more developments as they occur. Show me how you can obtain a copy of the tbox software.

We can get most of the open source parts of the firmware from netgem, but thats not that much practical use to us, what we need is to be able to decrypt the firmware and create a new firmware. There is code out there that decodes other netgem firmware, _if_ the same method is used with the tbox firmware, then we need to work out the block offsets and lengths in which to apply the decoder. In theory we could try a brute force attack, but ive never tried something like that before, it might be difficult to automate.

And there is no guarantee it will work as they could have changed the how the decryption works. If we do decrypt the firmware, there will probably be binaries and other data on there that isnt open source that we cant legally distribute, but that might not be a legal problem to legit tbox owners as they are already allowed to use it. If we do decrypt the firmware, there will probably be binaries and other data on there that isnt open source that we cant legally distribute, but that might not be a legal problem to legit tbox owners as they are already allowed to use it. What I've seen done (in the case of open source drivers using proprietary binaries), is that we create the tool to decrypt it, then just script it to wget the firmware blob from the same URL as the device, so we don't have to distribute any files that don't belong to us. Random thoughts on the subject: Allegedly there is an rsh shell open whenever the box downloads an update? Looked at the decrypt script, it uses static offsets which is kinda bad for us as the file that it decoded isn't available anymore.

Upgrade.bin: Split up into a bunch of different encrypted MINIX FS (Well, a modified version of it) image files. Well, the source code has been released, Which is only the modifications to the kernel they made. Only useful thing I see there is the source for the modified MINIX fs driver they use.

A french forum seem to have documented a whole lot of fiddling with decrypting the netgem firmware as well. So have you verified that the correct key is present? No, don't really have the time or access to my proper toolset at the moment. (To scan for anything that looks like a key.) Is it possible to build an image that will load, or (possibly) to decrypt the existing images? We might be able to decrypt the existing images, but to create a working image would be near impossible because the thing is signed by Netgem's private key? Although it is possible to flash an unencrypted file with the upgrade tool that is already on the system. (Although I don't know the format of the unencrypted file) So I'm thinking decrypt the root and usr imgs, figure out how to package it, do the modifications, and figure out a sure-fire way to get terminal access so you T-Box owners can mount and flash the files.

Although with rsh access we don't need to create a binary as we have enough access to access the filesystem. (And no legal issues with distributing files that we should not) That's the long-term plan. Note: I don't own a T-Box and don't ever plan on getting one, but reverse-engineering embedded Linux devices is always a nice hobby if there ever was one.:P Edit: And of course we have the upgrade.bin broken down into it's constituent files thanks to the one of the posters on the previous page.

Can confirm that the above works. I have had my T-box running through a logged non-caching proxy for a few hours but the logs haven't really turned up anything useful. I noticed a copy of an older version of the T-Box firmware on the Netgem website, I have downloaded this and will have a poke around.

My aim is to simply enable streaming my media files over my network, otherwise the box is functional enough. Being able to record two programs at once would also be a plus, but if there is a web interface to control recordings in the pipeline then perhaps not.

Ok, so the files off the Netgem website contain none of the Telstra or Netgem middleware. I got a copy of the latest upgrade.bin using the links above and changing it to the latest firmware (5.2.43-2 from the 6th of April), however I can't extract it or anything. Using the channel 999 hack though, I was thinking that if I had some basic HTML on my server I could host a page and link to files to play through channel 999, however I'm struggling to find a format that will work.

I tried it with YouTube but that failed miserably. Flash, HTML5, embedded AVI, links to AVI, embedded MP4 (this actually crashed my box and made it restart!) all failed. Anyone got any other ideas or know what format the BigPond IPTV channels stream?

If we can find a format that we can play from within this channel 999 then we're set! Set up a URL redirect modem side to a local IP with a basic web server and some HTML/PHP pages and some media files and bam! EDIT (to save another post): Ok, made a basic HTML page and got the T-Box to load it on channel 999, the page had a.mp4 file embedded and I had sound! If I highlight the video and click it then the box reboots. I have half my video, now to get some picture! I think this bit of JS might help.its what the Game Analyser App calls: but not quite sure how to try and implement this. Perhaps someone else can help me now!

Just looking at the source it looks like looks to be something like this.videoPlayer = new NetgemVideoHandle.create('GApl ayer'); this.videoPlayer.ini t(); this.videoPlayer.setScreenSize(167, 11, 574, 325); NetgemVideoHandle.swapCu rrentPlayer(this.videoPlayer ); this.videoPlayer.setMediaUrl('url to file'); this.videoPlayer.play(); but you probably need more (e.g. A canvas) to put that onto. (using the UIK stuff) it would be very easy with access to API ->and in particular Netgem Web Tool, for easy debug. Just an update, xvid/avi etc all playing fine. Most mkv's, has some issues with ones that have certain video settings by the looks, not a bitrate issue (as its lower than another one that plays fine), so its a QC setting when the video was encoded).

Some issue with sound in mkv, seemed to be AC3, need to test with other files, it might have also been very quite (was too late to turn it up further). When I have something together that a large percentage of people can download/setup and get working I will release it. (this is so we dont have a repeat of the t-hub lock down). Hi everyone,:-) I have two T-box. One in lounge, the other in the master bedroom. I have an external HD which has a lot of programes stored on it. They originatied off the one in the bedroom.

When I plug the drive into the other T-box in the Lounge room. It regognises it. Shows the programes that are stored on the HD. HOWEVER when I go to play any of said programes.

The result is I just get a blue background with occasional bit of sound. Are the recorded progames locked (DRM) to the original box? Regards, Mitch. There is a new source release, v5.2.69 for the T-Box at netgems site. From a quick look it has the build files, so i expect (hope) that they are now in compliance with the GPL and i can forget everything *tbox*.

For the record, I first contacted NetGem about it on October 27th last year, so its taken about 10 months for them to come into compliance, a lot longer than i expected. I hope Telstra and NetGem will be as patient and forgiving next time they find someone violating _their_ Intellectual Property. Anyway, hope someone actually finds this new release useful. Are you sure? When it was first released, Telstra displayed and advertised the boxes media playback capabilities.

They then gimped it and then claimed it was on the 'roadmap' to release these features. The box is capable of it, Telstra have said they will eventually allow it to, so it's just a matter of when Telstra actually live up to the advertising they originally had on their website and enable the functionality. Don't hold your breath though, and certainly don't buy the box on the hope they'll do the right thing. I understand many people would like the T-Box to stream media from pc/usb/NAS type devices as you point out. The road map for T-Box brings many exciting and useful product features and services to the T-Box in the future but, as you can imagine, we won't be discussing any road map activity until we're ready to do so.

Not really what you said earlier: That is actually going to be available officially soon (no set date). Telstra has finally understood that media boxes need to be as user friendly as possible. 'Soon' is a lot different to 'not discussing any road map', lol! To me, not discussing any road map means no plans in the near future, have not started down that road, but we will one day. I find it humorus that in a thread dedicated to violating the intelectual property that is the T-Box There's a long running argument around that.

Particularly in the US, companies who have argued that end users who modify equipment they purchase are some how breaking the law have been on the losing side of the argument. Breach of the ToS and loss of official support? Or another way to put it. I had a T-box.

I stopped using after a short period of time and it sat gathering dust. I then gave it away. Other options open to me would have been 1) Sell it to another BP subscriber 2) Modify it to make it of some use to me I would have felt no guilt if I had of picked 2) On the other hand if Telstra are selling a product using GPL code, what is required of them and their supplier is very black and white. The core idea around GPL is that you are free to take and modify the code, but your modifications must also be released (with source code) under the GPL license.

Connected how? Connected via USB, and the drive is formatted into 2 partitions (both ext3) and I can use both partitions. One partition for me and one for my wife. However, programs exported to the hard drive are all listed in date order instead of series being grouped – as they are on the built-in drive. I would greatly prefer to be able to record directly to the USB drive, rather than export them later for storage. So far I have not even pulled the cover off, but I am definitely getting that itchy screwdriver finger.

How to move already recorded data from the hd of the t-box to the external drive? You just go to My Recordings and find the program you want to move and cycle through the options on that recording – one of which will be to export to external USB drive.

Once you export them, you cannot bring them back onto the internal hard drive – but you can transfer them endlessly to other USB drives. Also once exported, programs no longer 'group' (for a series recording), but are all listed chronologically – which is a pain if you have 30 shows from one series and 30 shows from another series with sundry other shows intermingled. The functionality of the Tbox could be great, instead of pedestrian. If I bought one of these T-Box's cheap would I be able to use it purely as a stb/pvr even though I'm not with Bigpond?

It will not function very well without a BigPond service. From: Only when registered and connected to an Eligible Broadband Service will the following features of the T-Box work * Movie rentals on demand from BigPond® Movies (after initial registration process) * Full program on-screen guide, seven days in advance * Access to BigPond® TV channels * Access to YouTube videos on T-Box * Access to BigPond® Videos on Demand (VoD) on T-Box * All recording features via My Recordings including Series Record. If your T-Box is not registered and connected to a Eligible Broadband Service, features will be limited to: * Digital free-to-air channels * Basic TV program guide like “now and next” and * Basic recording features such as manual timed recordings. There are better PVRs out there if you do not want to use the Tbox with a BigPond service. Hi everyone, Looks like this thread has been going for a while but not much hacking so far. I'd like to help, and since i'm trying to get a console login on my t-box I might as well share what I've found. The 4-pin port near the battery [J17] only has access to the i2c bus for the dual DVB-T demodulators.

Pin 1 is GND, pin 2 is SDA, pin 3 is SCL and pin 4 is 3.3v Vcc. There is a serial console on J15. Its a 3.3v UART so a MAX232/3 is need to convert TTL to Rs-232. Pin 1 is GND, pin 2 is Tx, pin 3 is Rx and pin 4 is Vcc. Using a console at 115,200 8N1 I get this: 339idxxxx0edeb0081xxxx289cd2e2xxxx5deb171780cxxxx #xos2P55-100 (sfla 128kbytes.

Subid 0x99/99) [serial#5dc634xxxx905245a96b2xxxxc1b5939] #stepxmb 0xac #DRAM0 Window: 0x# (16) #DRAM1 Window: 0x# (15) #step6 @0x000*** zxenv has been customized compared to build *** xloadsize=30676 xload rc=6 #step22 #ei Uncompressing Linux. Update caches. Ok, booting the kernel. So looks like even the console has been disabled by telstra, damn! All we can see is bootloader messages, not even the kernel dmesg is being outputted. Ok, so now we need to figure out a way to force/trick the t-box to enter debug/interactive mode, or a backdoor to get the box to run a script to start login on /dev/ttyS0.

Ive done some more digging around, and found some very interesting components on the t-box board. • SMP8655A CPU with 64MB ram • 1GB NAND Flash ram • AKM4420 24bit audio codec • Dual Si2161-FM DVB-T demodulators Some more interesting components: • TDA8024T smart card interface, see CON1 • STM32F101C8T6 Microcontroller • NRF A 24L01 2.4GHz Transceiver Does anyone know why these boxes have a NRFa24L01 wireless tx/rx chip in them? These are low range wireless such as for mouse, keyboards etc. The chip seems to be powered on and has a built-in antenna on the pcb at the front left corner. The STM32F seems to be our key to cracking this box. It controls the initial boot up, the ir remote and front panel led and the NRFa24L01 2.4GHz reciever is hard wired to the STM32F microontroller, suggesting the wireless transceiver is for a RF remote control.

The STM32F has a boot select pin (35) and a UART for flashing (Tx:30, Rx:31). The STM32C's UART tx and rx pins are wired to J18, between the front left usb port and CON2 connecting ribbon to the front pcb panel. On J18, pin 1 is UART_TX, pin 2 is GND, pin 3 is UART_RX, pin 4 is possibly GND but could be something else tied low. Pin 35 of the STM32F is tied low with a 10k resistor to GND. Ive soldered onto the resistor and wired it to the positive 3v of the batery, pulling pin 35 high, and some things change, but it still boots. With pin 35 high, the reset button dosnt work, the front panel led stays off.

As soon as the pin is pulled low again the box reboots and the reset button and led work again. So it does something! Im still playing with reset button orders/combos to trick this thing into wanting to flash. Will keep you all posted.

This t-box will be cracked or bricked, one way or the other!:) Cheers, Roh. SUCCESS!!:):) I can read and write the flash bootloader in the STM32F!! Using J18 wired to a serial port (as described above), and connect pin 35 of the STM32 to the + (positive) 3v battery to pull the pin high, and cold booting the t-box, puts the STM32 into reflash mode.

So I have found a serial console for the SMP8655A CPU on J15, and a SWD (serial debug) port for the STM32F101C8T6 on J18. Using stm32flash I get this: [rohbags@wx1 stm32flash]$./stm32flash /dev/ttyS0 stm32flash – Serial Config: 57600 8E1 Version: 0x22 Option 1: 0x00 Option 2: 0x00 Device ID: 0x0410 (Medium-density) RAM: 20KiB (512b reserved by bootloader) Flash: 128KiB (sector size: 4x1024) Option RAM: 15b System RAM: 2KiB Resetting device.

I have copied the original bootloader (128K hex file) to a backup file. If anyone wants to try and hex-edit the bootloader just let me know and I will send it to them. If we could edit the kernel boot line and add 'console=/dev/ttyS0' or even just read the boot line we may be able to enable root console access. Can anyone find a negem N8200 bootloader flash image? Or ANY STM32F101C8 bootloader firmware that can boot uClinux or openwrt etc? Now I just need a new bootloader to flash, and the t-box is ready to hack to death!:) OK, so we are now 99% there, its not impossible to run our own kernel/os on these boxes.

Im currently digging through the source code downloads from netgem.com, trying to find bootloader code. If anyone finds a binary file bootloader for a STM32F101[C8T6] please send it to me and i'll flash it and see what happens.

Any help to find a new bootloader image to flash to the tbox would be awesome?!?!??:D. But still no root access. The STM32F can be flashed, I wiped it blank just to see if it really did boot the CPU but it didnt.

It seems the STM32F is just a micro-proccessor unit that interfaces some periphials to the CPU. When the STM32F is blank there is no IR remote, no front panel LED, and no reset button.

Sadly a short on the board damaged the STM32F while trying to reflash the original firmware, I am now left with a semi-bricked tbox. Interestingly, even with a wiped STM32F, the SMP8655A CPU still boots up as before, not even an error message on the serial console.

I have posted what I have done and found so far on this page: If I can find another tbox I would like to try to sneak some executable code into the many XML files owned by root on the hard disk, maybe we can trick the tbox into running 'mingetty /dev/ttyS0' or something similar. Any t-box donations to continue hacking would be greatly appreciated:) (i dont need the hdd or wifi stick, or even a case, just a working board) Cheers, Roh. (will keep you guys posted). Does anybody have access to the private key, for SSH? Netgem have it but I don't think they want to give it to me.:/ Nope, they wouldn't give me the T-Box SSH key, but they did email me some information on applying for a developer box and key. Sounded like you need to be working for a development company though.

People, if you email Netgem they will give you a login to the API/developer portal, someone who knows more about things than I do might be able to use some of the codes to change the SSH key or reveal it. I have been watching packets transferred between the iphone running the new tbox app and the tbox to try and get the telnet commands for ip control of the tbox and possibly some higher level of access. I have found at ports 5678 and 5679 there is some response to telnet and can also be accessed via a web browser however resulting in an error 403. Opening ':5678/remote.control' prompts for a login? After reading through countless communication logs i believe my iphone logs in using the username 'backelite' without the quotes which funnily enough is the name of the company that made the iphone app. The password on the other hand seems to be dynamic and is requested via a connect command broadcast from the iphone when searching for the tbox.

It is however encrypted and changes after every connect request, i'm an amature when it comes to this so hopefully someone much smarter than i am can solve this as i would love ip control of my tbox. Hi, I'm kind of a newbie here haha. Has there been any successful hacking/jailbreaking with the t-box in basic terms? I'm not that intelligent with computers but I can follow instructions lol.

Is there anyway to host files from my laptop to the t-box? I have a BigPond modem and a T-box from when we was with telstra, we're not anymore now though, so the T-box is unregistered, and currently trying to unlock the router, so i guess these things will make this double hard. Not sure how the t-box recognises your not with Telstra, by either the Modem or the ISP login details? I've asked telstra on twitter and they know nothing. I have written a script to insert local content into the TBox – I am using a machine-in-the-middle setup, and local content plays fine as per previous similar code.

However, mine is written in perl, not PHP, and runs under Linux. If you are a Linux propeller-head, you can find the (definately NOT turnkey!) scripts and setup at lie2tbox.weebly.com If you are NOT a Linux propeller-head, then you might want to wait until it becomes a little more (l)user friendly to set up (any one of you propeller-heads want to try making it turn-key? Sorry, I'm too busy trying to make it better! My housemate currently finds it a little to hard to grasp the setup, but is perfectly happy with using it!) On the plus side, this setup (machine-in-the-middle) allows you to keep all the other network functionality of the TBox intact. For example, I have played with translating the navigation ID and content ID codes to ensure no 'overlap' and you can definately get this to work – that means, NO loss of any content, just an extra menu holding submenus of all your local content (not in the current setup just yet, but the hooks are there). As per the web page, I am going to see if we can also inject web page content with this API – if so, ABC iview and SBS and other catchup sites should be usuable.

Fingers crossed. OK, new upload that fixes a few bugs and removes the make_database script – all done via the management web page now. You can also have some nice JPG images to pretty up your videos – each file individually, or each file in a directory (and subdirectories) can use the same JPG, just create a file default.jpg in any folder and any files in or below that folder that don't have an individual JPG will use the default one. It 'walks' back up the directory tree so defaults lower down the tree take precedence. Only problem is that you *must* have a default.jpg in root folder of your media storage, or the rebuild database will *never* complete. Top effort Kneel, it's come a long way!:) I'll add a link to your site on mine Ta! Changes: you can now edit the title and content of individual files from the management page.

You no longer have to wipe out the entire database to add new files (still a little buggy though) Info for the hackers: Injecting a file name with square brackets in it ( ie, ' [' or ' ]' ) makes the TBox have a dummy spit (it resets itself). I am wondering, but have not investigated (and have no plans to), whether this might be used to find some sort of attack similar to a buffer overflow attack.

Might be worth a look if you 'hard' hackers are running out of ideas. More updates. URL in case you lost it – With new 'Updates' page – see that page for detail of latest update(s) from now on, but I will post a notice and the URL here for each update I consider significant (probably, maybe etc;-) ).

If you find a bug, please whim me – I will try to fix ASAP. If you have a feature request, please whim me – just don't expect I will do it any time soon unless I like the idea and want it too;-) Melita seem to have programmed the box in a way that there is no menu to transfer ones recordings to a USB device.

You can always remove the HDD and mount it as a Linux partition, then pull the files off it directly. Other than that, it seems we are still looking for a way to get access to the TBox over the network – at least for anything other than OEM 'allowed' access. This is currently beyond what I intend to investigate, however that may change in the (unspecified time frame) future. I sincerely appologise to all involved I regret I caused offence to members both at Whirlpool and Crowdsupport I am very sorry. There's no need to apologise.

It's a common occurrence for Telstra staff (complete with fancy badges etc etc) to reply to threads in which they have absolutely no understanding of the question being asked, and simply reply as if they are on the phone reading from their scripts. And then of course, to top it off, the moment you call them out on their complete and utter useless replies that serve no means other then to antagonise paying customers, they fall back on the whole, 'I am here to help, I am not representing the company'. As an example. On the discussion of pro-rata, I once mentioned that it would seem logical to start the billing period at the same time the service is activated. My IQ was increased substantially, when I received such replies as, 'The printers couldn't handle that work load', and, 'Australia post wouldn't appreciate a large number of bills being sent out on one day'. And here I was thinking that slugging customers $2 or whatever it is now for a paper bill would have substantially reduced the paper trail. Silly me, think of the printers Dyno Bmx Bike Serial Numbers. !!!!!!

That is good news about My Media. Now, hopefully, it'll work as advertised and not be plagued with freezes, drop-outs, glitches, lost connectivity and reboots.

Ah, who am I kidding? Back to hacking. I haven't seen this (so far) answered with certainty: Can the 320GB HDD in earlier T-Box models be upgraded, i.e. Replaced with a larger HDD?

Apparently, later T-Box's come with a 1TB HDD, but I'm wondering if the firmware needs modification for HDD size? The HDD is 2.5' SATA, so physically, it's straightforward. Assuming the firmware needs no modification, would it be a matter of physical replacement and then selecting 'Reset Hard Disk' from the Settings menu, or would the new HDD need formatting first to include the 120GB partition used for temp storage and downloaded movies? Has anyone tried HDD replacement?

Why on earth would anyone even want a Tbox, Is so old school and limited. Youtube: 'Sickbeard' run in conjunction with XBMC and SABNZBD. Catch up with the real geeks guys!!! Um, they're kind of doing different things – you're comparing apples to oranges. I have a few XBMC devices (apple TV2s), and I run a server with transmission & flexget, and together they provide excellent entertainment and automated content retrieval (similar to sickbeard & sabnzbd I believe).

But they are not very useful for watching and recording live tv, or watching BigPond streaming channels, footy replays etc. T-Box also has Foxtel on it, and legit movies on demand. Most of us following this post are probably keen to some some of the great XBMC features (basically media playback) added to the T-Box functionality.

I should also note it now does play media from upnp shares (Serviio works great). Any news on hacking yet? I am running one functional T-Box but had one that failed and I never returned it to Telstra – Back then it was probably the remote control issue as I had a number of them loose connectivity. Anyhow I wanted to reconnect the supposed dodgy Tbox but it asks for User name & PW – I'm worried that if I register it it will appear on my Telstra bill as a second unit! Does anyone know any way to register it on a full BP account but using other credentials??? If not I have a unit here I'm waiting to crack.

Keep up the great work. Ok guys this is something i learned it might be the same for the t-box too but its worked for me on my t-hub and now i can use it on my different ISP. Remove and reinsert battery step 2. Turn on and work through the 5 steps of the setup, click other modem type.

It then searches for your wifi connection. Add in your wifi password step 4. At the the 5th setup step it will ask for your your telstra username and password, now for the trick lol step 5. Press the volume down button and the bottom right hand part of the screen (in the corner) simultaneously. If you have done it right a number pad should appear.

If not just keep trying until it does. Now enter the following *519# and woohoo you can now use the T-Hub with your new ISP. Good luck all. Has anyone tried HDD replacement? The hard drive is optimised for PVR purposes. It's a customised WD edition 5400rpm drive. I've been messing around with a refurb unit during 'down time'.

If you format the hard drive in Windows, then throw it back in the device, it will reformat itself to the correct file system. The OS isn't on the drive, and can actually run without any hard drive installed.

One suspects that playback on a NON stock hard-drive would suffer, and there could also be potential issues from non-SOE components. And then of course, to top it off, the moment you call them out on their complete and utter useless replies that serve no means other then to antagonise paying customers, they fall back on the whole, 'I am here to help, I am not representing the company'. This is because of Telstra's social media policy. Staff are advised that in order to comply with the policy on posting on social media, something along the lines of: 'My opinions are my own and don't represent Telstra's' are required.

Oh, and by the way, I work for Telstra, so my opinions are my own, and they don't represent Telstra;). Telstra's ridiculous and despotic 3Rs policy basically states you're required to sing the company's praises on and off the clock, and if you want to dissent, to put a big disclaimer on it that your opinion isn't worth considering. Gee, Telstra – a couple of points: • your staff are the ones that understand your products and processes best. Instead of trying to stifle opinion, how about sucking less?

• I always took the point of view that I was paid to do and think as told while on the clock. Off it, my thought and opinions are my own as long as I wasn't disclosing commercially sensitive material. Again, try sucking less – or at least pay me 24/7 if you want me to think your way 24/7. • there's a concept called 'defending the indefensible' that no amount of draconian HR bullshit will change.

• in an age of more or less anonymous online contribution if desired, you have basically zero way of implementing your attempt at thought control other than lopping off the odd martyr who zigged when they should have zagged online. That simply makes the rest of the crown more intransigent and rebellious. Again, if you want the support of your staff, try sucking less. Seeing a pattern yet? Someway to buy the netgem unit, if one was purchased from the UK would it work here?

I went ahead and purchased one from the UK, delivered yesterday and had a quick play with it today before work, Automatic tuning did not work, I had to manually enter the frequencies for the digital TV and then it picked them all up. Not sure about the EPG as it grabbed the data from the channel when the tuning was being done, so will report back on how it went. It has the BBC catch up service which worked, of course you need a decent internet connection, Remote control has the ability to turn the TV on and off also, so one less remote needed and no need to buy an additional universal remote, Found my network drives and connected no problems, Downside so far is that the interface is not as polished as the Helstra one, My ten minutes with the UK Netgem box. Not sure about the EPG as it grabbed the data from the channel when the tuning was being done, so will report back on how it went. From my understanding you need a valid tbox account with BP for the full EPG (Bottom middle button '0' on the remote) for it to work.

Each 'show' is its own file with details, description, picture, etc (How it was explained to me) so its far too big to be sent via the air waves. Which also means you wouldn't be able to see any of the extra BP channels. Will be interested to hear back what you see.:-).

Hi i just scored one of these from a neighbour for free so sticking my nose in here to see if anyone has had any success in doing something with them. I read some early and later posts here(too long to go through all the pages). So would love to hear about any other uses for this especially as an ordinary tablet. I don't mind just accessing the net via my wifi connection at home or free wifi hotspots when out. I managed to connect it to the home wifi and trying to get updates for it but every attempt it stops at certain percentages and nothing so i have to reboot. At the moment its stuck on 92 percent and the other times it was a different amount.

It had a full overnight charge, have tried to update on the dock and off the dock and nothing is different. I just joined so I could post this. I like my tbox in some ways but hate it for many others. I think it sucks that they make it so I cant do anything with the stuff I record without a tbox so I spent some time trying to move the movies I have recorded. I tried the way it is supposed to work moving it onto a hd but it wont work, (something wrong with it). I really want to be able to keep and watch what I have recorded on anything so I removed the hd plugged it into a case and was able to move them using ubuntu. The only problem now is they are not in mpeg like people say and most importantly they are in 47mb chapters which wont play well of course.

I am not computer savy and dont understand half of what you all say but perhaps someone has an answer cos I am going to give up after this and just delete all my stuff cos I am out of room. It's sad to see that progress on this appears to have stalled:-(. I made the mistake of suggesting to my parents they get a T-Box about 18 months ago, not forseeing them ever switching from Bigpond (they are retirees who have been on Telstra since it was Telecom, and never had any intention of switching), and because of the simplistic interface (they're pretty resistant to learning new things when it comes to anything remotely electronic). Well now they're looking to switch from Telstra finally (since the NBN is under construction in their area so it's sort of a chance for them to start new), problem is they make heavy use of the EPG recording features which will break if they abandon Bigpond. In this case, they don't need to worry about playing different formats, or moving videos to external drives or BP movies or anything, but the EPG is the killer for them. The boxes don't seem to go for much on EBay anymore, so I was hoping some sort of hack would get a functioning EPG without Bigpond.

Has any work been done on this front? I could set up a server on their LAN and trick the T-box into using it instead of proper Bigpond servers to get EPG data, but I'd first have to find out how it access this data, and then find a substitute source for the data. Has any work been done on this front? I could set up a server on their LAN and trick the T-box into using it instead of proper Bigpond servers to get EPG data, but I'd first have to find out how it access this data, and then find a substitute source for the data. I've done this for the Video-on-Demand services in 2011 before firmware updates allowed for the MyVideos function. Since then, I had a dummy spit with Telstra over multiple hardware failures (unrelated), and haven't had a TBox since.

However, getting one outright from eBay soon, so will need to set up another machine-in-the-middle attack platform and check out what the latest FW is chatting about over the net – hopefully can learn enough to fake this, doesn't appear too hard based on NetGems use of open protocols for the most part. No idea about other hacks yet, gotta wait for the box to arrive. Thank you.but all that does is bring you to the my media page, which as I said, allows you to cast from pc to t-Box. It will only do stored video files from your pc. What I would like to do, is send a live stream from the tv to the t-box. Thanks If you convert that stream into something that can run over DLNA in a format the T-Box can understand I don't see why it wouldn't work. If theres an application that can do that then it may be easy, otherwise it may be something you have to figure out yourself.

I thought that what I am trying to achieve could be termed as 'IPTV over T-Box' IPTV is actually what the T-Box does, eg. Foxtel or Presto.

The apps provided allow it to work. The T-Box as the 'client' would have to be in a mode to receive such streams, which is what the Foxtel and Presto apps do. I don't think the My Media mode is set-up to receive streams like this, in that mode, its working with DLNA based protocols and a certain subset of file container and codecs. At no time is the T-Box open to 'receive' a cast like the Google Chromecast device or Airplay via Apple TV.

These are probably what you'll need for this type of thing. Have you, or do you know of anyone, whom has used Serviio to cast a live stream to the t-box? Yes, I have using Serviio as per the link I posted earlier. Serviio can be used via T-Box for both – your own Media on your PC & also live streaming.

The difficult bit for the Live Streaming is you have to be able to determine the URL & add that URL into the Online Sources of the Library Section of Serviio. Then when you go into My Media on the T-Box you choose Serviio, Videos, then the Online folder & then choose the live stream URL you added into your library. You will have to google & learn the various ways of obtaining the URL for your live streaming. As I said before, it is not so straight forward & simple. Yes I have done it. Hi Everyone, I've deregistered the T-Box on the website and left the Telstra Service.

I can still see BigPond movie previews although I can't rent them. I would like to stop the T-Box from 'calling home' checking for firmware updates. Anyone know what IP ranges the TBox tries to look up the update servers as I'd like to filter outgoing requests from the T-Box on my router. I've tried this site but get too many ranges making it impractical to make a rule for all of them. Wp.apnic.net/apnic-bin/whois.pl MAINT-AU-TIAR-AR Etc Any help appreciated. Might be a bit late, but this is how I transferred HD footage from my N8200 T-Box.

Removed the 320 GB HD from the T-Box – watched this video for a quick guide 2. Inserted the HD in to a USB HD enclosure, you could buy one like this for $15 3.

Installed Linux on my Mac with Virtualbox – see here: as the filesystem on the HD is ext3 which my Mac doesn't recognise. Ran Linux, connected the USB drive with Virtualbox so Linux recognised it, then opened HD and went to the 'timeshift' folder, which contained thousands of.ts files approximately 49MB each 5. Sorted by date, and copied all the files across to my computer that I wanted. You'll need to research how to create shared folders to get the files back to your OS. Used the following Terminal command to combine all the.ts files in to one file: cat file1.ts files2.ts file3.ts >all.ts (I could have done steps 6 and 7 in Linux) Windows equivalent: copy /b file1.ts+file2.ts+file3.ts all.ts More details: 7. Installed ffmpeg and ran this to produce a usable file: ffmpeg -i all.ts -acodec copy -vcodec copy all.mp4 Note that I could still play the.ts just fine – it's just that not many programs (or mobiles) will work with it.

I got one of these T8200 boxes as a freebee. I thought the 320GB HD was good enough alone.

Anyway all I had was a power supply with and no remote. I started looking up uni remotes and even at the supermarket look expensive. But then found the T-Box app and installed it on my phone.

Sorted that one out. Next I need to connect it to my local network. That was easy enough plugging it into my router but then I found I had no screen as I had no monitors or adaptors nearby that could take HDMi input.

So back to the lounge to plug it into a TV. I then wasted most of the next hour with a repeater bridge I plugged into the Ethernet port to get it wirelessly on my network. Cheap eBay job tends to be unreliable. I load up the app, which kept loosing the box on the way, use the interface to connect and suddenly now I have a remote! Was weird using a phone and not as easy as using the real thing. The previous owner left all these programs on there.

Now I've got a DVD recorder where the 500GB HD is chock full, but I found the T-Box to be a but unorganised and unmanageable. It was just one program to the next. Maybe it was just me. I didn't go into it much.

I thought I would see how well it would play off a USB stick. Not well at all! After finding out where to select USB on the awkward interface it then refused to play any files because I wasn't on Big Pond.

What the hell!? What's that got to do with playing video off a USB stick? So I do have Telstra prepaid on my mobile but I don't want to use that to satisfy it as my data isn't free and I suspect it will download non-green dot data. Has anyone tried? I read about the channel 916 trick. I'll try this next. Finally, what hacks are there for it?

I didn't read the whole thread. Is there alternate firmware that can be loaded onto it? My daughter gave me her old T-Box that hasn't been used for about 3 years, I fired it up and it auto updated the firmware, as I don't have a Bigpond account the box is in a reduced function mode, wanting to stream media from USB and network I located a trick to get it functioning, on the remote hold the power button until a message on screen say's that it's going into deep sleep mode and turns off, then turn it back on, enter on the keypad 916, this will open the media player menu giving access to the USB and any network servers that are available, works a treat now.

Thankx for this trick is perfectly working. 🙂 u just need to put “53” in UDP server port and connect it with ur ID bt m not getting 3G speed my SIM is activated on 3G when i connect it show 7.2mbps. Bt its giving 64kbps speed only. Im using “airtelgprs.com” APN. Is there any other way to get 3G speed so plz let us know any other APN or ect or any other carrier for the 3G speed nd once again hands off to u for this amazing trick not for this bt oll the posts here r amazing THANKX A LOT>>🙂.