Telkom LIT Android media box - Tips/Tricks/Apps thread

[killerbyte]

elaborate what you mean ..
backend doesnt mean what you think it does...

Netflix may have been provided a list of MAC addresses to block which is quite common.

MACs can be spoofed.

Its not based on MACs. Its based on ESN.
By backend he means the Netflix servers. They do an ESN check and if the device is not on the authorised list it does not get access to the service.

Modernizing the Netflix TV UI Deployment Process

by Ashley Yung

netflixtechblog.medium.com

An ESN, or Netflix Electronic Serial Number, is a globally-unique identifier for each device. Even if you have two of the same TVs at home: same brand, model and year, and they both have the Netflix TV app installed, they do not have the same ESN.

 

[MakazoleM]

Its not based on MACs. Its based on ESN.

Modernizing the Netflix TV UI Deployment Process

by Ashley Yung

netflixtechblog.medium.com

An ESN, or Netflix Electronic Serial Number, is a globally-unique identifier for each device. Even if you have two of the same TVs at home: same brand, model and year, and they both have the Netflix TV app installed, they do not have the same ESN.

Thats great, but ESN can be changed/spoofed too like MAC

 

[MakazoleM]

Regardless im not fussed about Netflix


I just want to replace the god awful Telkom branded firmware.

 

[Dolby]

Regardless im not fussed about Netflix


I just want to replace the god awful Telkom branded firmware.

You don’t like seeing the name ? Or what is it do you think Telkom has a huge influence over?

elaborate what you mean ..
backend doesnt mean what you think it does...

Netflix may have been provided a list of MAC addresses to block which is quite common.

MACs can be spoofed.

Gosh … someone else that thinks he knows it all and how things work

 

[Dolby]

Netflix may have been provided a list of MAC addresses to block which is quite common.

Don’t think this situation has happened anywhere else in the world.

Elaborate on ‘quite common’ ?

 

[cpu.]

Regardless im not fussed about Netflix


I just want to replace the god awful Telkom branded firmware.

The Telkom branded part is a few seconds in the beginning. The rest after that is exactly like the Mibox etc.

I killed/"uninstalled" the default launcher and loaded a custom launcher as I don't like a small ribbon for installed apps.

And as for Netflix, it works in Kodi (probably at SD only, never checked).

 

[Ecco]

Thought I might as well use this box to play some old games.

I can't even get RetroArch running on this box. Anybody managed to install it? Or any other emulator?

I managed to get this working by sideloading RetroArch.

Working great for the best roms I have. But I want to have retro arch download the thumbnails to the USB drive I am using for the roms.

How do you enable write access to a USB drive added to the box?

 

[Eti1]

Maybe you can try to install Launchbox?

 

[elf_lord_ZC5]

Does anyone know where I might get a power supply for a Telkom LIT TV box?

 

[EL'Diablo]

Does anyone know where I might get a power supply for a Telkom LIT TV box?

would a universal type work?

 

[EL'Diablo]

would a universal type work?

or wifi router power supply? not same same?

 

[elf_lord_ZC5]

would a universal type work?

Probably, but at more than double the price, if not more.

 

[elf_lord_ZC5]

or wifi router power supply? not same same?

None that I have, at home.

 

[EL'Diablo]

sad robot sounds *

 

[elf_lord_ZC5]

sad robot sounds *

Flippen Kid, lost the power supply at a mates ...

Now it is Dad's problem.

 

[EL'Diablo]

Flippen Kid, lost the power supply at a mates ...

Now it is Dad's problem.

maybe he was pulling wire in afrikaans, kids will be kids

 

[Vernon]

Power supply specs of 5V 2A, as I recall.
Not sure of the connector size, but this will probably work: https://www.takealot.com/ac-dc-plug...-adapter-for-smart-android-tv-bo/PLID55055665

 

[elf_lord_ZC5]

maybe he was pulling wire in afrikaans, kids will be kids

Feck knows, took it with, when he spent a few days with his mates. Came back without it. Either lost or not interested in looking for it.

 

[elf_lord_ZC5]

Power supply specs of 5V 2A, as I recall.
Not sure of the connector size, but this will probably work: https://www.takealot.com/ac-dc-plug...-adapter-for-smart-android-tv-bo/PLID55055665

Now that might work, pity they don't say what the connector size is or the polarity.

 

[Rouxenator]

Now that might work, pity they don't say what the connector size is or the polarity.

Thin size, center positive by the looks of it on my old BoB auction pics.