Comments on: Netgem N7700 STB teardown https://www.epanorama.net/blog/2017/11/15/netgen-n7700-teardown/ All about electronics and circuit design Fri, 10 Apr 2026 18:15:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.14 By: Tomi Engdahl https://www.epanorama.net/blog/2017/11/15/netgen-n7700-teardown/comment-page-1/#comment-1694550 Tue, 13 Oct 2020 18:21:25 +0000 http://www.epanorama.net/newepa/?p=61259#comment-1694550 http://yptbaltimore.org/forums/topic/netgem-n7700-manuals/

]]> By: Salinda https://www.epanorama.net/blog/2017/11/15/netgen-n7700-teardown/comment-page-1/#comment-1694519 Tue, 13 Oct 2020 06:11:12 +0000 http://www.epanorama.net/newepa/?p=61259#comment-1694519 How can I log in to n7700 set top box.if there is any ip for that?

]]> By: Salinda https://www.epanorama.net/blog/2017/11/15/netgen-n7700-teardown/comment-page-1/#comment-1694518 Tue, 13 Oct 2020 06:11:07 +0000 http://www.epanorama.net/newepa/?p=61259#comment-1694518 How can I log in to n7700 set top box.if there is any ip for that?

]]> By: Henri P https://www.epanorama.net/blog/2017/11/15/netgen-n7700-teardown/comment-page-1/#comment-1687097 Fri, 07 Aug 2020 11:00:42 +0000 http://www.epanorama.net/newepa/?p=61259#comment-1687097 Could somebody contact to Netgem and ask if they would support Linux community to create open-source OS for their system. N7700 is no more being sold by different vendors so this would make Netgem possible to “recycle” their hardware so device owners could easily re-use as a Linux mediacenter (with DVB tuner, IPTV streams etc).

Most likely it is using Linux already (with QT frontend). So what’s the CPU in there? Probably ARM based? Could somebody (like box developers at Elisa) show output of: cat /proc/cpuinfo
Where’s firmware and how it could be overwritten (with JTAG?)? How to access serial port, where are the pins?

Linux Mint is PC operating system, not for embedded systems. It could be something like OpenWRT, eLinux etc.
If you like to play with Linux Mint then you should buy Raspberry Pi 4 with DVB-T tuner HAT. It could do almost same plus much more.

“Save the environment and use Linux” (on your old hardware).
Regards, Henri

]]> By: Tom https://www.epanorama.net/blog/2017/11/15/netgen-n7700-teardown/comment-page-1/#comment-1681424 Thu, 11 Jun 2020 17:59:20 +0000 http://www.epanorama.net/newepa/?p=61259#comment-1681424 How do I install android TV on this Box?

]]> By: Tomi Engdahl https://www.epanorama.net/blog/2017/11/15/netgen-n7700-teardown/comment-page-1/#comment-1680663 Tue, 02 Jun 2020 10:38:36 +0000 http://www.epanorama.net/newepa/?p=61259#comment-1680663 I don’t know how to install Linux to that box.

]]> By: james https://www.epanorama.net/blog/2017/11/15/netgen-n7700-teardown/comment-page-1/#comment-1680651 Tue, 02 Jun 2020 06:04:02 +0000 http://www.epanorama.net/newepa/?p=61259#comment-1680651 I want to know how to wipe my N7800 and install Linux Mint. Do you know how I can do that?
Thanks

]]> By: Rupa https://www.epanorama.net/blog/2017/11/15/netgen-n7700-teardown/comment-page-1/#comment-1660284 Mon, 18 Nov 2019 12:51:50 +0000 http://www.epanorama.net/newepa/?p=61259#comment-1660284 How to hard reset the Netgem N7700 STB?

]]> By: Tomi Engdahl https://www.epanorama.net/blog/2017/11/15/netgen-n7700-teardown/comment-page-1/#comment-1571133 Sat, 18 Nov 2017 21:03:49 +0000 http://www.epanorama.net/newepa/?p=61259#comment-1571133 Another STB that also uses Sony D2817ER decoder IC:
Dune HD 102W T2 provides new possibilities for TV viewer
http://en.mediasat.info/2015/07/29/dune-102/

]]> By: Tomi Engdahl https://www.epanorama.net/blog/2017/11/15/netgen-n7700-teardown/comment-page-1/#comment-1570940 Fri, 17 Nov 2017 07:52:31 +0000 http://www.epanorama.net/newepa/?p=61259#comment-1570940 Notes:
- wlan is USB stick inside device
- there were no markings I could find in main CPU
- I quess that the doughterboard on left next to antenna tuner could be DVB-C receiver IC (could make different versions for different TV standards quite easily)

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