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Remote Access
Slingbox allows users to watch and control their home TV from anywhere with an internet connection, providing flexibility and convenience.
No Monthly Fees
Once purchased, Slingbox does not require any additional monthly subscriptions or fees, making it a cost-effective option for accessing TV content remotely.
Compatible with Multiple Devices
Slingbox is compatible with a variety of devices, including smartphones, tablets, and computers, allowing users to stream content on the go.
High-Quality Streaming
Slingbox offers high-definition streaming quality, ensuring a good viewing experience for users.
Have been digging a little more in the little time I have spare at the moment - Seems DNS blacklists/redirect are not fully successfull. Even though I have redirected the domains sling.com, slingbox.com and slingmedia.com to a local "HoneyPod" on my lan it still appears that the slingbox is trying to talk to 67.148.153.136 and 67.148.153.250 on the internet which it can not get to since I shutdown all internet... Source: over 2 years ago
I just blacklisted slingmedia.com and slingbox.com in my DNS so the boxes can not resolve it but that is pretty bad behavior for a company to do that! Source: over 2 years ago
This has become a little worse with the Slinger server, but I think this is an issue with the Slingbox itself as I see the issue with their application. But I see a lot of cases where the audio gets ahead of the video. Have others seen it? Or does anyone have solutions? One of the solutions on slingbox.com is to factory reset the box. Source: over 2 years ago
Also, after my first apparently failed attempt at trying a factory reset with no access to sling what I did was put the slingbox and a PC behind a cheapy old router I had so I could just unplug the uplink cable to make sure nothing was leaking up to the internet. Just concerned about what your router is doing when blocking "slingbox.com" does it just do a DNS lookup and block that IP? In my packet capture there's... Source: over 2 years ago
It appears that the automatic update comes from some path on sling.com because blocking slingbox.com alone still allowed a firmware update. Source: over 2 years ago
I am completely lost, or I'm missing a major chunk of instructions here. I setup a Raspberry Pi3. I did the update/upgrade, python3-pip, and flask. I moved the three files over. I logged into the slingbox.com web interface and ran the account_boxes_js and got the output saved. Source: over 2 years ago
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