I recently became the proud owner of a Roku 3 box. Very happy with it
minus one or two small details. For grins, I brought it with me on
vacation, and immediately ran into the problem that the hotel wifi
requires an authentication page be filled out, which the Roku can't do
since it doesn't have
Another option would be to figure out how to fake the browser
authentication with curl or wget, so you can script it. I did this a few
months ago for a phpbb forum.
On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 1:16 AM, David Kramer wrote:
> I recently became the proud owner of a Roku 3 box. Very happy with it
> min
Here's what finally worked for phpbb, if it helps:
> wget -q -O /dev/null --save-cookies=./session-cookies \
> --post-data='username=JohnDoe&password=foobar&login=Login' \
> 'http://www.example.com/forum/ucp.php?mode=login'
>
> sid=`cat ./session-cookies _ grep _sid | cut -d$'\011' -f7`
>
Oops, there's a typo in the second command, the _ should be a |:
> sid=`cat ./session-cookies | grep _sid | cut -d$'\011' -f7`
On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 2:03 AM, John Abreau wrote:
> Here's what finally worked for phpbb, if it helps:
>
> > wget -q -O /dev/null --save-cookies=./session-cookies \
Authenticating from my Linux laptop through my browser works flawlessly;
the problem is connecting the Roku device to the wifi, since it doesn't
have a web browser, and it certainly doesn't have a command line.
On 12/31/2014 01:48 AM, John Abreau wrote:
> Another option would be to figure out how
It has no option to ssh into a command line? That seems odd; pretty much
every embedded device I've ever owned was based on Linux and had an option
to enable ssh.
On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 2:11 AM, David Kramer wrote:
> Authenticating from my Linux laptop through my browser works flawlessly;
> the
David Kramer wrote:
> Change my laptop's MAC address temporarily to that of the Roku,
> authenticate, then try to connect with the Roku. Sounds reasonable,
> except that it didn't work.
This is probably worth revisiting. In theory it should work. Perhaps
test it after you have returned home and c
> From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss-
> bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of John Abreau
>
> It has no option to ssh into a command line? That seems odd; pretty much
> every embedded device I've ever owned was based on Linux and had an
> option
> to enable s
> From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss-
> bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of David Kramer
>
> 1) Change my laptop's MAC address temporarily to that of the Roku,
This brings up 2 important points:
If you have your laptop, then what's the point of bringing t
On 12/31/2014 7:44 AM, Edward Ned Harvey (blu) wrote:
> In my experience, in hotels, usually you can't use your laptop for video
> anyway. They have an internet connection, and not enough bandwidth for 100
> people all watching netflix or porn in their rooms. I have seen video
> sometimes work
I guess I've been lucky. Now that I think of it, every embedded device I've
ever purchased was probably discussed or demoed at a BLU meeting or other
Linux-related event before I bought it.
On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 7:39 AM, Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
wrote:
> > From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey...
Because the Roku can access content that I don't know how to get to from
a Linux laptop, and it frees my laptop up to do other things.
I'll admit part of the reason I brought it was just to see how well it
would work in a hotel room; this isn't mission-critical functionality.
I did contact the f
Like what? Which Linux-based non-computer devices have you bought that
have ssh access as shipped without hacking?
On 12/31/2014 02:28 AM, John Abreau wrote:
> It has no option to ssh into a command line? That seems odd; pretty
> much every embedded device I've ever owned was based on Linux and h
A different idea: just get your Roku's mac address, spoof that on your
laptop, authenticate, and then connect the Roku. (Not my idea --
source was http://traveling-roku.blogspot.com)
On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 10:11 AM, David Kramer wrote:
> Because the Roku can access content that I don't know how
That was actually option 1. It did not work, probably because (as
someone here mentioned) the Roku is going to hit up DHCP since it
doesn't know the IP address associated with the MAC address via the
laptop, and that will force reauthentication anyway.
On 12/31/2014 10:15 AM, Gordon Marx wrote:
>
Can you statically configure the IP address of the Roku after
authenticating with the laptop?
Also, my apologies for my poor reading comprehension :--D
On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 10:53 AM, David Kramer wrote:
> That was actually option 1. It did not work, probably because (as
> someone here mentio
A variation on Gordon's suggestion...
What about an ethernet cable between the laptop and the Roku 3 in a subnet
(different from the wifi connection)? In the subnet, the laptop would have
to assign the address for the Roku (fixed addresses for both eth0 and the
Roku would be fine). I don't know
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