Slingbox technical tinkering

[BuzzKillington]

In case you haven't heard of a slingbox:

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I purchased one in hopes to learn about it (hoping it had a harddrive...it looked big in the pictures!) I received it and it's pretty small. Opened it up and naturally, it's all flash chips.

My question is: My goal was to access any kind of coding... I want to learn about how it works.

EDIT: I suppose the easiest way to getting ahold of any code would be to somehow get in the middle of a firmware update. You can update it through the network but there aren't any files to actually download... it downloads through it's PC software. Ideas?

Found the firmware... now the question is decompiling?

[Neodymium]

I am not a coder...but from what I have read about this on the net, its owned now, by Hughes, mate...a massive defence/satellite operations company (translated as billions of taxpayer money for R&D :rolleyes:)...their subsidiary, EchoStar, now owns SlingBox. They have ridiculous encryption (which by the way has been proven that passive eavesdropping can identify traffic that is being streamed from the slingbox and thereby giving "interested parties" access to your private info...for example, "that copy" of Batman or something like that...LOL) to their legacy and proprietary firmware for almost all their products - whether slingbox branded or hughes branded...that said they use infrared blaster as part of their implementation...if there's an SDK for their version of IR blaster, then maybe you get one of a million steps down...I'm not trying to say its impossible, it's just extremely extremely difficult :D

Another option would be to do something with a NAND programmer and start that route on the chips...in the process, destroying your warranty and possibly, the box itself ;)

All encouragement and power to you! Good luck!

[d_stilgar]

It seems like it would be neat if . . . I had cable. But I don't have cable and really never plan on getting it. Still, it's a great product that really enhances a product that's dying and being replaced . . . by services that match what the slingbox does for cable, haha.