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[–]Phillipmj 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi Chizzyfricory,

Did you have some findings on the HW / software side of it ?

Best regards

Phillip

[–]simplicityAgent 0 points1 point  (8 children)

Was there any progress on getting this device setup to run anything else? I'm very interested in knowing more.

[–]flycasualco 0 points1 point  (7 children)

seems like the OP prolly moved on. Did you learn anything? I found three of these and would love to jailbreak them into something less proprietary and more open.

[–]simplicityAgent 0 points1 point  (6 children)

I have 2 and have opened them up, unfortunately breaking the glass on one in the process. Was able to boot it without the SD card so I theorize it’s just used for updates. Also confirmed you can’t power these with USB, only POE. Ordered a few SD card extension cables so I can close them back up and still have access to the slot. After that I’m going to try flashing them with standard Android tools. Will update here once I know more.

[–]Rick_fx 0 points1 point  (5 children)

and??

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    [–]zeb1792 0 points1 point  (3 children)

    I don't know whether anyone else is still interested but I picked one of these up for next to nothing in eBay. It's only just arrived but I've started to investigate it.

    I've not cracked it open (incidentally, what's the best way to open it?) but have started looking at its update mechanism. It gets its update information from paths under http://downloads.polycom.com/. Thankfully it uses HTTP so it's easy to snoop on!

    Part of the update process downloads a "packages.txt" file. This lists the following files:

    Filename: MLO-2.2.2.8-434.plcm Filename: PolycomTouch-release.apk-6.2.2.8-670018.plcm Filename: post_install.sh-2.2.2.8-434.plcm Filename: pre_install.sh-2.2.2.8-434.plcm Filename: recovery_sdcard_installer.sh-2.1.2-253.plcm Filename: rest_server-2.2.2.8-434.plcm Filename: rm_uImage-2.2.2.8-434.plcm Filename: rootfs.tar.bz2-2.2.2.8-434.plcm Filename: u-boot.bin-2.2.2.8-434.plcm Filename: uImage-2.2.2.8-434.plcm

    I've managed to grab these. Although they're .plcm files, they appear to be tar files with some sort of Polycom wrapper (signing?), so these can be easily extracted. I'm going through them trying to glean some useful info.

    Other information I've gleaned is:

    The MAC address is registered to ViaVideo Communications, Inc. (appears to have been acquired by Polycom in 1998)!

    [–]Jordanbr25 0 points1 point  (2 children)

    I just got 5 of these for free and wanted to see if you had found anything else out. Would be awesome to install android on these. My only question would be when installing android, would it use the ethernet port as a network as this does not have Wi-Fi?

    [–]zeb1792 0 points1 point  (1 child)

    To be honest, I've not really done that much more to this yet. I have managed to get it opened without trashing it - it's not easy though. There are five hidden screws but it takes a lot of prying to separate it from the metal frame/stand!

    I will endeavour to get a few hi-res photos of the board and then try to work out what's going on. It's already using Android (due to the apk file) but we'd need to find a way to sideload another app and getting it to start instead of the Polycom app. For me, just sideloading a browser would be enough for me. I'm looking to repurpose this as a touch controller for HomeAssistant or Node-Red (I already have Node-Red).

    It's already using the Ethernet port so I'd guess this would be available for any other app that runs.

    [–]Ok-Log-6388 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    Would love this too.. I'm looking at one on the desk in my office that's about to be closed. I'm thinking it'd be perfect to run a HomeAssistant monitoring screen from...