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In the meantime, you can check out his code here. The device is in its infancy at the moment, and while hasn’t published a ton of details about the actual RFID devices he is using to control the system, he says that more details and improvements are forthcoming. The Ethernet shield allows the Arduino to talk to his Dreambox over a telnet connection, while the RFID reader does what you would expect. An Arduino runs the show, and is connected to both an Ethernet shield and a breakout board fitted with an ID-20 RFID reader module. His RFID remote consists of three major components aside from the media player itself. Much like some of the other hacks we’ve seen this week, he has devised a way for his little ones (1 and 2 years old) to control his Dreambox Media Player using RFID, which seems to be the go-to technology for this sort of thing. People are always looking for ways to make their home entertainment systems accessible to their kids, and is no exception.

While young children have the tiny hands and fingers that most hackers/tinkerers wish they possessed from time to time, their fine motor skills aren’t always up to par when it comes to operating complicated electronics.

Hack on dreambox serial#

Posted in home entertainment hacks Tagged Dreambox, LG, rs-232, serial Kid-friendly RFID Media Center Playlist Control If you want to find out what else you can do with this type of serial connection read about this hack which used a script to try every possible command combination. From there he got to work on a Python script which works as the backend for a web-based control interface. After a bit of tweaking he was able to lock in reliable communications which he made persistent by writing his own startup script. His initial tests resulted in no response, but a tweak to the com port settings of the box got his first command to shut off the television. He searched around the Internet and discovered that it should be possible to connect the two using a null modem cable. is using a Dreambox DM800 satellite receiver which also has a serial port an he can telnet into it.

The image above is the back of another LG television (it came from a forum post about controlling the TV with a PC). It pushes commands to his LG 47LH50 TV which has an RS-232 port. He’s using his satellite receiver to provide the Internet connection. Now the one-IR-remote-to-rule-them hacks have been gaining popularity lately so we assumed that’s how he was doing it.

Hack on dreambox password#

Root:EIfidfjeSAEFKEOlasdf5ewr3rWEW:0:0:root:/root:/bin/shģ.2) the password field is the x or the encripted string EIfidfjeSAEFKEOlasdf5ewr3rWEWģ.3) Delete the x or the whole string.Wrote in to tell us about his hack to control the television with a smartphone. Root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/sh or something as

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I will explain it with some detail, to help anybody with same problem, this procedure reset the root password to get access without it and after will be necessary (recommendable) to create a new one:ġ) Install and run TuxBox Commander plugin (Yellow Button in Pli)Ģ) Change directory to edit /var/etc/passwd (type 4: 'Edit')ģ.1) In the file /etc/passwd is the line: The procedure was resetting the root password, but, the only way is from the TV set directly, through TuxCommander.