D-Link Boxee Box

Boxee Box

Boxee Box by D-Link (officially "D-Link Boxee Box DSM-380") is a Linux-based set-top device and media extender that first began shipping in 33 countries worldwide on 10 November 2010. Designed to easily bring Internet television and other video to the television via Boxee's software, it comes pre-installed with Boxee media center software. The hardware is based on the Intel CE4110 system-on-a-chip platform (that has a 1.2 GHz Intel Atom CPU with a PowerVR SGX535 integrated graphics processor), 1 GB of RAM, and 1 GB of NAND Flash Memory. The DM-380 features an HDMI port (version 1.3), optical digital audio (S/PDIF) out, an RCA connector for analog stereo audio, two USB ports, an SD card slot, wired 100 Mbit/s (100BASE-T) ethernet, and built-in 2.4 GHz 802.11n WiFi.

GETTING BOXEEBOX ROOT AND MAKING IT USEFUL AGAIN

When it was released just three years ago, the Boxee Box – a set-top box designed to run the Boxee HTPC environment – was a pretty cool little device. Even though it was somewhat crippled from the get-go, the Boxee Box had a lot of neat features including a remote with a QWERTY keyboard, the ability to stream media over a home network, and automatic scraping of IMDB for proper info for all your torrented media. Team Boxee recently left for Samsung, http://www.boxee.tv/   and the severs have been shut down, but that doesn’t mean your Boxee Box has outlived its usefulness. Here’s a few hacks to get your Boxee Box up and running again, sent in by [Ryan].

solution for Boxee Box is ROOT IT, not holding my breath for a "Server" clone

The REAL solution for Boxee Box is ROOT IT, not holding my breath for a "Server" clone

I've been hearing about a replacement D-Link Server for Boxee Box for over 5 years now. My wife worked at D-Link USA for nearly 18 years and the execs there laughed at the idea a cloned server is even possible. Besides, how long will someone (if they could make something work) keep it running, who's going to cover the expenses and who can afford a "pipe" (big bandwidth connection) that will be required for all the BB users??

Boxee Software Exploit: Local Command Execution Through Remote Workgroup Name

D-Link Boxee Box Netflix app

has anyone come up with a method to update the Netflix app? Issue I’m having since Netflix went to version 4.0 (BOXEE is 3.0xx) Dolby Digital Is no longer available. Just curious if anyone found a way to do this. Thanks – BTW, Dolby Digital and DTS work just fine with all other sources.

Wiki Boxee

This page will be dedicated to a general overview, descriptions, and information related to the Boxee media player.

The Boxee Box (DSM-380) is made by D-Link and features an Intel CE4100 SOC (Intel Atom CE4170).

It is quite similiar in function to that (security wise) of the Logitech Revue, or Gen 1 Sony Google TV boxes.

github Boxee D-Link KODI Hack

github Boxee D-Link KODI Hack

In June 2019 the Boxee Box control servers at boxee.tv were taken offline. This application functions as a simple replacement for the boxee.tv application, restoring only enough functionality for normal use of a Boxee Box.

New Boxee behaviour post Boxee cloud server shutdown.

Since the shutdown, there's been no Netflix, no apps, but I've been using it successfully as a local media player.
Five minutes ago, turned it on, after I used the power button on the boxee to shut it down a couple of hours ago, and there's been a new 'saying' that's been popping up.
"Something something, failed to connect, something something after establishing connection back on the internet."
Which is fine.
But again, just turning it on, it went to the 'user' screen, and I had two user accounts (bought it that way, no idea as to actual passwords or whatever).
There used to be two user accounts, both with generic person avatars, now I have one that is a skull. Won't connect.
Luckily? the other account still works. Not sure of any sort of new server activity, but the next thing I have definitely done is block all internet access for the boxee.
I just can't risk some sort of server kill code wiping out the remaining working account.
I had that alternate DNS hack still active as a DNS on my router, so I'm not sure if that had anything to do with this recent change, but I'm not going to risk it.

Boxee + Hacks install

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 Box at Value Village

Anyone want a Boxee Box that stopped being supported in 2012, without a power cord, for $30? Value Village has you covered.

Don't throw your Boxee Boxes away just yet

Yesterday I started sniffing traffic from my Boxee Box in hopes of developing a fake boxee server to replace the official servers that just went down. But then I thought maybe someone has already done this. Turns out "cigamit", who used to help with Boxee Hacks and ran boxeed.in forums, was already working on this years ago.

firmware release by Boxee - Obtaining Root

Obtaining Root

Restart Boxee with no wifi/network present

I am at my cottage and just reset the boxee in error. It is now walking me through the start up process and I get stuck on the network set up page. 

We have no internet connection availalble (wifi or ethernet). 

Is it possible to set up or do I need to take it home and reset it when wifi is available?

Boxee D-Link KODI Hack latest firmware (1.5.1)

latest firmware (1.5.1), since this hack has only been tested with that version. Particularly some skin features are used that will probably not work on older Boxee builds, and even may leave your box in an unbootable state, requiring you to do a factory reset.

How to get Kodi to run on Boxee Box Hacks

There are currently six releases of kodi for boxee. They are all 14.2 kodi.

Pretty much all of the info in the sidebar is out of date to some degree.

This has a good set of instructions that is somewhat up to date.

Boxee Hack Install

Installing

Installing is very simple. Get a USB stick and format it. Name the new volume BOXEE. Then download the zip from github and put the contents of the "install" folder on the USB stick. In the stick's root there should be these entries:

BoxeeHack Installing

Installing is very simple. Get a USB stick and format it. Name the new volume BOXEE. Then download the zip from github and put the contents of the "install" folder on the USB stick. In the stick's root there should be these entries:

boxee.tv domains DNS server

I now have a public DNS server online. 

In June 2019 the Boxee Box control servers at boxee.tv were taken offline.

How to obtain root, install and run XBMC on D-Link Boxee Box

How to root the D-Link Boxee Box

At DEFCON20 GTVHacker
http://www.gtvhacker.com/index.php/Boxee

demonstrated two ways to get root on the Boxee Box
http://www.gtvhacker.com/index.php/Boxee

, a software method that runs a shell script every boot, and a hardware modification that requires the user to cut two traces and solder wires to a UART adapter. The easiest and most feasable way to root the Boxee Box is using the software method which I will describe below.