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Posted in Arduino Hacks, home entertainment hacks, News Tagged arduino, Dreambox, home entertainment, rfid, tv

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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.

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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. But he also joked that “the trouble with this stuff is, you don’t know if it’s intended for you until after you look at it.Wrote in to tell us about his hack to control the television with a smartphone. Still, Laurie said that he has careful not to access sensitive data. Laurie’s work is a clear descendant of that era. Phone phreaking, a subculture that was in many ways a precursor to hacking, thrived in the ’70s and early ’80s on exploring what could be found out about the phone system through exploration ( The Best of 2600: A Hacker Odyssey gives an excellent historical view of phone phreakers and the hackers who came after them).

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Hackers often get associated with attacking or breaking software and hardware, but the fundamental hacker mentality is that of a curious explorer. He showed that he could read data being transmitted using equipment that costs about $785. But still, he gave us a live demonstration of a hacked Dreambox satellite decoder that can be used to glean information about many of the feeds in the sky. Laurie’s understanding of the satellite technology might not be comprehensive–one audience member asked him a question about the technical specifications of the dish he uses, and he laughed and shook his head. “We were getting raw, unfiltered news in real-time,” Laurie said. Some of the time, he would catch their official broadcasts as they were giving them, but he was also be able to watch when the camera sat forgotten in the corner. By tapping in to one feed around the time of the death of Princess Diana, Laurie said he was able to view live video set up by a group of television journalists, intended for the station that employed them.