#boxee box

I'll post a nice tutorial/walkthrough of what I've done and what hardware I'm using to achieve this.

For essentially making your device (the Boxee Box) useless when you decide to move on to other products. That's mighty grand of you, I feel ever so happy about it. 

I have a Boxee Box and while at times it feels like the Android equivalent of the Apple TV, it does allow me to watch all my TV shows I am forced to illegally download with a nice interface. But its remote, dear god, its remote.

In The Dark

You know what the most probable lighting conditions are in the room wherever you install anything for a “home theater?” Probably somewhere dark. The Boxee Box remote’s designers did not thing of this however. As not only is the front symmetrical to the touch (meaning you have 50% chance of hitting the “exit” button when you meant to hit the “pause” button), but the keyboard on the back has dark blue and dark gray lettering on black buttons. Yep, super readable that.

Multiple accidental clicking

Because of poor design and manufacturing on D-Link’s part it is a known issue that the remote sometimes does multiple clicks. Try entering a password or URL with that little issue. I was able to temporarily relieve this issue by shoving a small piece of paper in the battery compartment.

Yes, that’s right, I had to jury-rig my own remote to make it work as intended, an absolutely shining example of engineering and manufacturing excellence. Kudos to all involved!

That said