Boxee cloned server updates, working server information, options to keep your box alive

Several people have been working on cloning the boxee.tv servers since they were taken down, in an effort to restore functionality to everyone's Boxee Boxes. Happy to say that as of today there are multiple implementations out there, and that my public hosted version of this is online and available to use.

Quick rundown:

Bringing a Boxee Box back from the dead STEP-BY-STEP

Bringing a Boxee Box back from the dead

So last weekend I found my old Boxee Box on a shelf in the basement and I decided to try and get it back up and running. In my troubleshooting efforts, I decided to go ahead and do a Factory Reset – BIG MISTAKE! The following guide outlines the steps I took to bring this cute little toy back from the dead!

Boxee hack in 2022

I think I finally gave up on this piece of crap today. I have had it for YEARS and everytime it struggled with finding SMB server on Windows. Sure sometimes after 10x reboot of Windows + Boxee etc. it could be found. I have put countless hours trying to get this thing to find the server reliably. (even though other devices could find it perfectly fine)

Now with the "No access to the internet" since they stopped paying for their pinging-server (I could still browse the net via the browser with Boxee) I am done.. I tried to factory reset but now it doesn't want to boot into the menu anymore due to lack of internet connection (keep in mind that both wired and the wireless works) Sure I can do the DNS hack.. but that doesn't fix the fact Boxee always struggles to find the server in question.

New cloned Boxee IP address

ATTENTION: New cloned Boxee IP address
Unfortunately I had to reset the IP address on my boxee clone instance. This should be the only time this happens.

Boxee cloned server updates, working server information, options to keep your box alive

Box cloned server updates, working server information, options to keep your box alive

Several people have been working on cloning the boxee.tv servers since they were taken down, in an effort to restore functionality to everyone's Boxee Boxes. Happy to say that as of today there are multiple implementations out there, and that my public hosted version of this is online and available to use.

Boxee can not connect to the internet. (Nor wifi or nor ethernet)

I think there is no such a world-wide accident within a month...

A few days ago the symptom is the same on my 8 years old Boxee box as well.

Perhaps there will be someone who adept enough to resolve this problem. It seems to me there is no one so far.

I have luck, since a few years ago I made a Boxee hack, so I can run on my Box as media player with KODI.
The Kodi is located on SD card so it was a choice of mine to use Boxee or Kodi. (I prefer more often Boxee rather than Kodi.)

To take a hack now is not possible since the Boxee useless without of successful login.

D-link Boxee Box Internet doesn't work

I had boxee+ hacks once upon a time and accidentally did a reset and then updated to v.1.5.1.23735-b6a5be1 Even though I'm connected to a DNS server and have a green boxee i cannot access any web page or get subtitles etc. What is wrong?

Help: My Boxee+ Hacked Boxee Box reverted to Factory defaults mode

Hey has anyone ever had a hacked Boxee Box just, for no reason, revert to being as if it's brand new? Mine has done this today, yesterday it was fine, turned it on and it booted up. But today I turn it on and it's booting into standard Boxee Box load screen and asking to pick a language!!

 Have I basically lost everything on it?

Boxee can not connect to the internet. (Nor wifi or nor ethernet

Some days ago my loved Boxee Box could not connect to internet. At first I thought there is some setting problem. I tried my Wifi (it can see my wifi router) and I tried wired, but nothing. It can connect to wifi (it said) but there is not internet, and it can see the ethernet wire also, but there is no internet also. I tried a factory reset, but when it ask me to connect the internet, the error is the same.

boxee cloned server updates 2020

- Fior nicholasserra's Server public server -

Configuring DD-WRT DNSMasq settings as a built-in DNS Server fior nicholasserra's Server public server:

Boxee D-Link RF remote / remote USB mod

RF remote / remote USB mod:

https://youtu.be/_OXB0XT1HFs

↑vid with slideshow + annoying TTS narration, shows the easiest modification in order to use the boxee remote on a PC/Mac/tablet/phone. it took me 15 minutes to peel the layers off the Boxee box and take out the remote control (pcb)module, then it took 15 minutes to add a cut USB cable to the (pcb)module. works.

Boxee cloned server updates, working server information, options to keep your box alive

Boxee cloned server updates, working server information, options to keep your box alive

Several people have been working on cloning the boxee.tv servers since they were taken down, in an effort to restore functionality to everyone's Boxee Boxes. Happy to say that as of today there are multiple implementations out there, and that my public hosted version of this is online and available to use.

game system for emulators/home arcade

is it possible to hack the boxee to become something of a game system for emulators/home arcade? kind of like a raspberry Pi?

i have this exact unit of boxee and have little use for a home entertainment system that almost all the boxee’s are being hacked into. would rather game system it if it’s even possible..

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.

Samsung willfully disabled these boxes

What I find astonishing is that Samsung willfully disabled these boxes. Surely a patch to locally emulate server handshake would have been politic rather than just switch the server off arbitrarily? My Iomega box would have been crippled without the ability to handshake with your server, leaving me without the ability to play my collection.

boxee will not connect to the internet

My boxee will not connect to the internet. I have done a factory reset and cannot get past the initial set up because it can find my network but not connect to the internet. Any ideas?

Boxee public server is a success!

This is confirm that your server dns works very well. I have a boxee that I had reset and since then I could never log in. With your server installed on a local machine and this ip included in the router, I was able to finally access the login and be able to install Boxee + Hack and then Kodi.

github BoxeeHack

Hack that enables root access to the Boxee Box, provides a new updated Skin with some improved features, and a number of services to access the box such as telnet access

Boxee Box hack (video)

Easy to use hack for the Boxee Box that adds a Music entry to the home screen and a new fanart feature on the movie details page (like XBMC).

Hacking a Boxee Box

I recently purchased an Amazon Fire TV Stick and love that it allows the ability to sideload applications like Kodi (I still hate that name, long live XBMC!) for media streaming. I mainly use Samba/SMB shares on my network for my media, with most of my content living on an old WDTV Live Hub. The WDTV Hub works great and is still pretty stable after all of these years (except for a few built-in apps like YouTube, I wish they kept going with updates), and the Fire TV will gladly chug away, playing any video over the network. However, I had the need to have my media stream to a third television and I didn’t want to uproot an existing device and carry it from room to room.