I first encountered this box in around 2012 when I was tasked to do some reverse engineering on it, but that’s another story. I looked for a less expensive option with older media streamers and found a lot of information about the Boxee Box appliance put out by D-Link in 2008, discontinued in 2011. I also considered a Raspberry Pi and wifi dongle, but this puts the price up to around $50 (which is more than the Fire TV Stick.
#BOXEE APPLICATIONS SOFTWARE#
I already have a second generation Roku kicking around, but it doesn’t appear to be able to run anything other than the stock software at this time. However, I had the need to have my media stream to a third television and I didn’t want to uproot an existing device and carry it from room to room. The WDTV Hub works great and is still pretty stable after all of these years (except for a few built-in apps like YouTube, I wish they kept going with updates), and the Fire TV will gladly chug away, playing any video over the network.
I mainly use Samba/SMB shares on my network for my media, with most of my content living on an old WDTV Live Hub. I recently purchased an Amazon Fire TV Stick and love that it allows the ability to sideload applications like Kodi (I still hate that name, long live XBMC!) for media streaming.
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