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There is a similar project for LG TVs that doesn't require a bof, however messing with these TVs puts you deep inside BrickVille territory with no money for the
by forgotusername 14y ago
There is a similar project for LG TVs that doesn't require a bof, however messing with these TVs puts you deep inside BrickVille territory with no money for the cab ride home (no simple firmware recovery).
If you like the sound of tinkering with this stuff, buy a $70 Allwinner A10 stick and play with that. Consider it very cheap insurance for the $1000 TV you're plugging it into (this is perhaps especially relevant to any household with mid-teenage geeks running around). It's also worth note that the boards in these TVs tend to have very little RAM, and run slow, low power processors (MIPS architecture for LG IIRC). Most of the interesting stuff is done in hardware.
Finally, for LG TVs with the USB port labelled "service port", do not touch. The port is missing protective circuitry and there are many documented cases of the TV's internals being fried by connecting active devices.
- CrazedGeek 14y ago(OT, but I'm worried now:) Would using the "service port" on an LG TV purely as a powered USB port be a bad thing? (I've been using mine to power my speakers.)
- forgotusername 14y agoAt a loss to find a single web page now that you ask. The stuff I read was explicit about avoiding the TV's USB port unless it was specifically labelled a USB port. The last time I saw this was a post on Reddit from someone who'd killed their flatmate's TV via plugging stuff into the USB port, again an LG TV. Apologies for the total lack of references.
- andyjohnson0 14y agoThis might be useful: http://openlgtv.org.ru/wiki/index.php/Wiki_index http://openlgtv.org.ru/wiki/index.php/Wiki_index
- klausa 14y agoIf we're thinking about the same thread on reddit, that would be it: http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/m16fd/i_kind_of_broke_my_friends_42_vizio_hdtv_someone http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/m16fd/i_kind_of_b... Note that it was Vizio, not LG.
- tseabrooks 14y agoI worked for one of the big TV Makers and you're absolutely right. Brickville headed your way. Hell, we "bricked" some in the lab. As for the processor, almost all of these high end TVs are MIPS procs, though I know for a fact some of the newer ones (last year or so) are now ARM. However, even the ARM systems are terribly slow. All of the magic of video decoding / encoding is handled in HW and the proc + SW is just barely able to show you a menu and maintain a list of channels / frequencies in the background. Frankly, I don't imagine that most TV processors are running fast enough to get excited about.. I think they were in the 400 mhz / 128 mb of RAM.