When it was released just three years ago, the Boxee Box – a set-top box designed to run the Boxee HTPC environment – was a pretty cool little device. Posted in Peripherals Hacks Tagged boxee, Boxee Remote, media center, media PC, RF keyboard, usb, xbmc Since built this small device, a few people have come up with better keyboard layouts for XBMC and the Boxee remote, allowing this device to function far into the future.

Windows identifies the RF receiver as a normal keyboard, so everything went swimmingly. The rest of the project was simply putting everything in a project box and stuffing it behind his PC. The receiver operated at 3.3 Volts, so stepping down the voltage required regulator. traced out the connectors on the RF receiver for the BoxeeBox, and found the usual V+, V-, Power, and Ground connections found in a USB cable. It turns out this is pretty easy, requiring only a few parts and half of a USB cable. This meant figuring out a way to connect the RF receiver from a BoxeeBox to a USB port. Getting it working on his XBMC-equipped PC was a top priority. Other media center devices have filled the void in ’s life, but he loved that Boxee remote. ’s BoxeeBox loved his BoxeeBox, but it’s an old device now, with some support for web streaming (including Netflix) gone. It was impressive because the reverse side of the remote had a small qwerty keyboard, just the thing for searching menus loaded up with movies and TV shows and entering URLs. Not because it controlled the BoxeeBox, the set-top media center PC, mind you. When it was first announced in 2010, the Boxee remote was a stroke of genius.

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