[GRLUG] Slingbox

[Mike Williams]

Anybody know of either a Slingbox-type device that actually works under 
Linux or a way to persuade a Slingbox to work under Linux? Best Buy was 
selling Slingbox Solo's for $100 last week, and silly me thought I could 
get it to work on Linux. It seems to be DRM'd and locked down all over 
the place, and will support everything BUT Linux. Chrome, Firefox, 
Safari, on Mac or Windows no problem, but no Linux. I found a couple of 
forum posts hinting at partial success with XBMC, but I haven't gotten 
that to work. I've also tried faking the user-agent string on my web 
browsers, which gets me through the "your operating system is not 
supported" message but still doesn't actually work.

For those unfamiliar with it, the Slingbox is a little gadget that takes 
an audio/visual signal and streams it to a web browser, either across 
your LAN or across the Internet. Anybody actually do this with Linux?


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