How To: Enable Root Telnet on Boxee Box!

[CrashX]

More stuff to play with if it is rw:

.boxee/UserData/advancedsettings.xml
/opt/boxee/system/keymaps/remote.xml
/opt/boxee/skin/boxee/

[aiiee]

It actually gets read on login, not boot.

I am guessing that since the Boxee application "/opt/boxee/Boxee" has an instance of "showsubtitle" and it isn't a user configurable field, it gets written to the guisettings.xml with a hardcoded value. I'm also guessing that the values that ARE considered user-configurable are read from either another file or a database field and placed into the XML file on boot.

I did the following:

"grep -r subtitle /*"
"grep -r showsubtitles /"'
"grep -r Subtitle /*"

And nothing's obvious.

login makes more sense, since we are talking about the GUI. I suppose if they wanted to be dicks it could be a compiled binary that writes to the .xml, but that's unusual

[CrashX]

Made the changes but when I rebooted they changed back....Any ideas?

Instead of reboot, try killing the boxee app and launch it again ...

[TreeBeard]

Instead of reboot, try killing the boxee app and launch it again ...

That can be done easy enough:

/opt/local/bin/restart_boxee

Although, I noticed my cache settings persisted after a power down and power up.
I noticed log messages regarding a sqlite instance, I'd imagine that's were these are persisted or perhaps tdb files or the like. Should be easy enough to get a binary to read/edit these once they're located.

EDIT: D'oh, spoke too soon, restart_boxee works, but the remote is not functional following.

[CrashX]

For those interested in hacking, their is now IRC Channel run by the guy who did boxee wiki:

http://webchat.freenode.net/?channel...boxee-hacking#

[pcm2a]

If you are using the .9 version on your Boxee Box the Launcher app does not launch. Is there any other way to enable telnet on .9?

[TreeBeard]

If you are using the .9 version on your Boxee Box the Launcher app does not launch. Is there any other way to enable telnet on .9?

Doesn't launch anymore on 1.x anymore either..

[TreeBeard]

FYI:
http://forums.boxee.tv/showthread.php?t=16015&page=8

[gohnjanotis]

Hey guys,

I'm working on starting a site called DeviceKnit that's like a cookbook for gadgets where people can post "implementations" (which are like hardware/software recipes) and then discover other users' submitted implementations based on the devices they own.

I'd really like to get some cool recipes around different things people are doing with the Boxee Box, whether intended features or more hack-like, but I don't own one myself so I'm trying to reach out to people who own it to share some of the cool things they are doing with it.

The site is in it's early stages at http://deviceknit.com but we'd really like to hear what you think of the concept.

[jaycollett]

anyone gotten any further with this?