#Boxee box hacks 2013 how to
If you don’t know how to get to settings: Step 5: Once fully booted, go to “ Settings” “ Network” “ Servers” and check “ Enable Windows File Sharing“. Step 4: Plug the USB stick into your Boxee Box and start it (plugin powersupply, press power button). Step 3: From the downloaded hack file, copy the contents of the “ install” folder on the USB stick. Step 2: Partition a USB stick to one Partition, formatted MS-DOS FAT and name it “ BOXEE” (all capitals, no quotes!). Step 1: Shutdown your Boxee Box completely and remove the power supply cable! Installation, on a USB stick (SD-Card will work as well, however USB stick is recommended): The hack is needed to prevent Boxee (the software) from starting so we can “inject” XBMC instead. I strongly recommend downloading the most recent version from Boxeed, but as usual we offer a backup at Tweaking 4All as well (which might be outdated!). This plugin/hack offers a great deal of cool fixes and addons for your Boxee Box, so even if you’re not planning to run XBMC, this plugin is highly recommended! – SD-Cards can be used but tend to become hot and perform rather poorly Needed Softwareīefore we can run XBMC on Boxee Box we will need to apply a little hack, called “ Boxee+Hacks” which can be downloaded from Boxeed – you will find instructions how to install it there as well, but we will describe it on this page as well. – External (USB 2.0) harddisks will work as well and in general will perform even better – Fast USB 2.0 Sticks improve XBMC performance The requirements of the stick are not mind blowing, I’ve done this successfully with an old (USB 2.0) 4Gb USB stick. Most recommend using a USB stick, so that’s what we’ll do here as well. This trick will also work with an SD-Card, but there have been plenty reports of the SD-Cards/Card-reader being slow, unreliable, turning flaming hot, etc. So what do we need? Pretty simple: some software, a USB stick and a Boxee Box.