Is there anyway to bypass setup for Boxee?

So I have a Boxee (yes I know from the prehistoric ages), I only use it to stream content from my Nas. Not sure what happened but, the other day, Boxee kept asking me to login / register (I do have an account), but was able to login. I did a factory reset and now during setup I keep getting the error "An ethernet cord is plugged in, but configuration failed". I assume that all the that the Box is trying to connect to server that have has probably been killed off.. Is there anyway to get into the box to make it useable? I have briefly looked at Boxee + Hacks but installation requires you to actually be able to get to network settings.



The Boxee Hacks project was working to find a way to get around this. IIRC, a few years ago, I had the same issue, and I was able to get around it by the means they recommended. The solution might have been to simply unplug the Boxee ethernet on boot-up and work in offline mode. That is all I can remember. For a better answer, I suggest doing some Google research. FWIW, I think the Boxee login servers, which are now being run by Samsung, have just recently been brought down. It would have been nice for there to be a website giving some notice of this, so we are not all left in the dark. So there will be no more user log-ins for us Boxee stalwarts. If there is no workaround for this, then our Boxees will be slowly going defunct, and it will time to move on.


Seems boxee took down the server endpoints that it needed to connect and display apps.


So D-Link, not Samsung, was still hosting the login servers? Thanks for correcting me. I was confused on that. I thought Samsung bought EVERYTHING, including the rights to run the Boxee servers, when they purchased Boxee the company.

I doubt the Israeli-run Boxee company screwed Samsung. I think Samsung mismanaged the takeover and probably gutted all the Boxee software for their SmartTV software. They took what they could use and incorporated it, and jettisoned the rest. Which is too bad, because the user interface work that Boxee did was excellent.

FWIW, I think D-Link Taiwan did a very good job of engineering the Boxee Box. The units were not cheap to make, either. The remote was expensive with the double-sided keys. The logo at the front with the changing LED lights was not cheap, either. It was a well-made, well-engineered, beautiful piece of hardware. The Boxee TV, OTOH, wasn't so good.