Updating a redrhinoentertainment RHINO BOX

I bought one  Rhino box from a thrift store interested on the hardware and how hackable it is because is quite powerful, an RK3288 quad core 2GB ram 1GB ethernet and several USBs although all 2.0 unfortunately, but the major flaw in my opinion is the software. Android 4.4...

I started researching for similar boxes to try to reuse the software and lucky I discovered this box is a clone of Ugoos UT3S (https://ugoos.net/ugoos-ut3s-16gb-rk3288)

They have available several flavours of android and a dual boot image. I tested and it's quite nice. (Dualboot firmware: Xubuntu 15.04/Android 4.4 firmware v.0.3.1 for UT3S)

I ended up installing the (Android 7.1.2 firmware V4.0.0 BETA for Ugoos UT3/UT3s/UM3) NOUGAT and works surprisingly well. no issues so far.

For those interested in the piracy available back in a day in the original Rhino box image, in this image don't have it pre-installed. So you need to go down that road by yourself...

Have fun and keep hacking!

Compile and run shellinabox - Open SSH in a browser

I bought one beaglebone black, It has a nice IDE called Cloud9. One great feature of this IDE that runs entirely in a browser is allow access to shell.  I was amused by access shell on a browser. I was thinking if there's no any open source system to do the same in GConnect, then I found Shell In a Box.

Take a look in the project at: https://code.google.com/p/shellinabox/

Controlling G-Connect LEDs

Controlling G-Connect LEDs

You can use WiFi and Status leds of G-Connect easily to advise about wherever you want.

Ad blocker Router

Based in this awesome idea (http://jacobsalmela.com/instant-raspberry-pi-ad-blocker/) I configured this on GConnect.

Automating the services start up

Transmission on GCONNECT

Transmission bittorrent client runs natively on multiple operating systems. Why not on GCONNECT ?

Installing a package manager - IPKG

I found a awesome article about install a package manager in a NAS at http://www.openstora.com/wiki/index.php?title=Installing_a_package_manager. The good news is: the CPU of this NAS is binary compatible with G-Connect, both are ARMv5.  So basically to have a packaging system on G-Connect it's necessary "create" a new /opt inside hard drive and set some new paths to the future installed packages. The linux installed in G-Connect comes without anything installed inside /opt so "move" this directory to a new path doesn't change anything important.  let's start!