The Roku HD box arrived yesterday from Woot! The package contained the Roku box, a remote with two batteries, power transformer and RCA cables for audio and video connections. The Roku box is very easy to install and configure. Just plugged it in and connected the HDMI cable to the TV. Configuring the wireless settings did take a few minutes. Roku does not include a WPS push button mode. Instead I had to enter in my entire WPA passphrase using the remote and the on screen keyboard. But once the passphass was entered, the Roku box downloaded the latest firmware and then rebooted. Configuring Netflix, Pandora, etc. took about 30 minutes. I should have keep my laptop in the living room instead of going back and forth entering the activation codes.
While I haven't watched any movies or youtube video's, the quality and responsiveness was good. I did google for private beta codes and found six or seven additional channels to add. So far the only problem was viewing my Facebook photo's. I can see my profile picture but none of the rest. From looking at the comments on Roku's Facebook page, it appears that I'm not the only one having this problem. Everyone seems to be blaming Roku, but I suspect that Facebook has some API problems that they are not addressing. I have similar problems with Shotwell trying to upload pictures to Facebook.
So far my only real issue with the Roku setup is that the passphrass is shown every time the box is rebooted. I don't really want just anyone being able to see my passphrass. It should be shown as ***********.
So now on to setting up the SDK and Brian Lane's program for streaming my DVD from a server.
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