My take on setup ipkg on box office device

[xun1234]

I just bought a box office device, I would like to share the my steps to install ipkg on box office, once you have ipkg setup, you can install loads of software on box office to make it a multifunctional server.

telnet to box office, login as root. There is no root password in there, so you might want to edit /usr/local/etc/passwd to give it a root password.

mkdir /tmp/hdd/root/opt
mount -o remount,rw /
ln -sf /tmp/hdd/root/opt /opt
mount -o remount,r /
mkdir /opt/tmp
cd /opt/tmp
wget  http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/optware/oleg/cross/stable/uclibc-opt_0.9.28-13_mipsel.ipk
ipkg-cl install uclibc-opt_0.9.28-13_mipsel.ipk
wget  http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/optware/oleg/cross/stable/ipkg-opt_0.99.163-10_mipsel.ipk
ipkg-cl install ipkg-opt_0.99.163-10_mipsel.ip
rm *.ipk

so far ipkg is installed.
Enjoy your box office and have fun.

[xun1234]

some server software you might want to try
openssh: to get ssh access.
vsftpd: I found it is much faster to transfer file to the box using ftp rather than samba.
mediatomb: to serve media files, it is also possible to use mediatomb to access online streaming video.
transmission: a better bittorrent client than the default one in my opinion.

[snappy46]

Interesting project, I was just thinking the other night about a way to possibly run mediatomb on the PBO. It is currently running on my PC to allow apple movie trailers and You tube video streaming to the PBO using UPnP.

It sure would be cool if I can use the PBO as the server and client at the same time to be able to stream apple movie trailers and you tube videos. Mediatomb however is dependant on quite a few libraires so all those will have to be installed. At this point I don't even know the power/architecture of the PBO chipset but I can only assume it is quite limited.

Anyhow; like I mentionned already very interesting project; let us know if your are successful in installing any of those programs.

[kermit]

Good news, if I can install ipkg, I can install asterisk, and python google voice scripts, it can act as voip server!

some server software you might want to try
openssh: to get ssh access.
vsftpd: I found it is much faster to transfer file to the box using ftp rather than samba.
mediatomb: to serve media files, it is also possible to use mediatomb to access online streaming video.
transmission: a better bittorrent client than the default one in my opinion.

[wigout]

I do not vouch for the information presented here as entirely applicable but this forum:
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?t=58718

explores getting fancy with optware on the ASUS O!Play, a near match for patriot box office. Should be useful in finding what's possible.

and here's a second site dedicated to modding the ASUS O!Play:

http://minimodding.com/tiki-view_forum.php?forumId=2

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[eakf]

This looks promising. I posted earlier about the possibility of getting Logitech's slimserve running on the PBO, does this mean that it's at least plausible?

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[Amowagou]

Hopefully, the experts here may compose a tutorial “ipkg for Dummies” and show us how to install and use some basic packages like vsftpd and transmission from scratch.

[supergizboy]

I just bought a box office device, I would like to share the my steps to install ipkg on box office, once you have ipkg setup, you can install loads of software on box office to make it a multifunctional server.

telnet to box office, login as root. There is no root password in there, so you might want to edit /usr/local/etc/passwd to give it a root password.

mkdir /tmp/hdd/root/opt
mount -o remount,rw /
ln -sf /tmp/hdd/root/opt /opt
mount -o remount,r /
mkdir /opt/tmp
cd /opt/tmp
wget  http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/optware/oleg/cross/stable/uclibc-opt_0.9.28-13_mipsel.ipk
ipkg-cl install uclibc-opt_0.9.28-13_mipsel.ipk
wget  http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/optware/oleg/cross/stable/ipkg-opt_0.99.163-10_mipsel.ipk
ipkg-cl install ipkg-opt_0.99.163-10_mipsel.ip
rm *.ipk

so far ipkg is installed.
Enjoy your box office and have fun.

xun1234, i was trying to install the Mediatomb last night, but couldnt' find the libstdc++ package in repos, it's a dependency, do you happen to know where i can get it? thanks.

[snappy46]

xun1234, i was trying to install the Mediatomb last night, but couldnt' find the libstdc++ package in repos, it's a dependency, do you happen to know where i can get it? thanks.

Cool, let me know how you make out; I was going to try that next. Have you tried to load one of the static build for embedded devices instead of using ipkg. See the following link: http://mediatomb.cc/pages/download I must admit however that I have no idea which one of those build would be appropriate for the PBO. There are absolutely no dependencies on external packages, the binaries are statically linked and have no dependencies.

Anyhow I would like to wait for next version since version 0.11 of mediatomb does not work properly to stream apple trailer and You tube which is mainly what I want mediatomb for. I had to use the latest SVN and compiled on Ubuntu to be able to stream apple trailer and Youtube properly to the PBO via my PC. Version 0.12 should be out soon and hopefully they will have some compiled version for the embedded devices.

Good luck and let us know how it turns out.

[supergizboy]

Cool, let me know how you make out; I was going to try that next. Have you tried to load one of the static build for embedded devices instead of using ipkg. See the following link: http://mediatomb.cc/pages/download I must admit however that I have no idea which one of those build would be appropriate for the PBO. There are absolutely no dependencies on external packages, the binaries are statically linked and have no dependencies.

Anyhow I would like to wait for next version since version 0.11 of mediatomb does not work properly to stream apple trailer and You tube which is mainly what I want mediatomb for. I had to use the latest SVN and compiled on Ubuntu to be able to stream apple trailer and Youtube properly to the PBO via my PC. Version 0.12 should be out soon and hopefully they will have some compiled version for the embedded devices.

Good luck and let us know how it turns out.

Not yet. i've had it for a week only and been dealing with support for the faulty shipped wifi adapter issue. mediatomb might be the app i want the most on my pbo. will look into it when i have some free time.