X301t From Germany to Finland

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Hi all, great forum!
I recently moved back to Finland from Germany and my X301t T-Home box came along for the ride. I'm planning to get a fibre cable internet connection to my house soon and was wondering if there was a way to hack my box for use over here. Is there any alternative software like Linux Media Center software I could load onto it? Would I need to mod the hardware in order to get extra functionality? I understand the device runs WinCE (like the dreamcast . I am not a programmer but I've used Linux and OSX for the last 10 years so I can execute code if needed.

[Herman]

need modchip to start with as that allows unsigned code and generally playing, no solution yet but watch this space...........

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My future ISP sells the Humax HDPVR. I'm not willing to part with any money for another set-top box. Would any currently implementable mods enable me to access their local servers. I just don't want to be wasting my time hacking the hardware for no reason.

[Hoernchen]

Short answer : no.
Long answer: nooooooooooooooooooooooooo.

Ahem. While running linux is possible, the current lack of an user interface or remote support means it's useless if you intend to actually use it.

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Thank you for the swift answer. Bummer though What are the most useful implementations so far?

I suppose I will remove the 160gig hard drive and put the box on ice until someone develops something useful to me.

[Hoernchen]

There are no useful implementations so far - this forum's "I'll just wait till someone else creates something useful" to developer ratio is about 145:1, and the few developers are doing completely different things, from modifying wince 5.0 and creating a custom wince 6.0 nk.bin from scratch to working on linux and exploring the possibilty of getting the tuners to work. This might never lead to anything useful

[xmob]

This might never lead to anything useful

C'mon!  You know we're all determined enough to make something useful.   

[Hoernchen]

Well, at least I am far more interested in lowlevel hardware stuff than in creating a fancy GUI

[is0-mick]

This might never lead to anything useful

C'mon!  You know we're all determined enough to make something useful.   

hell yeah.. something useful definately maybe a router or a new tom tom for my car.. hmmm gps on internal com anyone? haha

Im sure we'll get something more than useful.. theres a few different avenues people are going down so im sure at least one of them will pay off!

Mick