I bought an Orange_Livebox off of eBay for the purpose of learning how to put together an embedded operating system.

For the money that I paid I've had countless hours of enjoyable Livebox hacking.

In the spiriting of giving, I've compiled my notes. Some work is original; some is derived from other resources on the internet.

Along the way, this work has resulted in a flexible, open sourced, Home Automation controller. We've named this the Home Automation Hub (HAH).

HAH components can be bought from the shop or drop by the forums if you have any questions about the HAH project.

1. Factory shipped firmware images
2. Flashing new firmware aka Livebox Recovery
   1. Using the windows utility
   2. With a TFTP server
3. Command line access (Breaking into the livebox)
   1. Console access hardware
   2. With telnet
   3. Via the serial port
4. Building/Modifying firmware
   1. Breaking open existing firmware aka DWB extraction
   2. Assembling new firmware aka DWB creation with dwbtool
   3. Replacing the redboot loader
5. Building a development environment
   1. Linux cross compiler for MIPS toolchain: Livebox development
   2. Native MIPS development: Compiling on the livebox
   3. Inventel source and toolchain
   4. Building new kernel modules

Interesting things you can do with your Livebox once you've decided ADSL routing is boring!

1. Creating a Terminal Server
2. Home Automation Hub overview
   1. Build the HAH firmware from source code
   2. xAP Python and Home Automation: getting programmatic control
   3. xAP Plugboard a rule and action engine
   4. xAP Bridge and standalone xAP compliant hardware nodes.
   5. HAH and the Arduino - integrating microcontrollers

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