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You have to love Neuros and their OSD. Not only can you get all of your media into a nice, digital format for easy storage and consumption but the product just keeps getting better.

Today Neuros announced a new hack that allows you to control your OSD from your PC. Here’s a handy video for you to see it in action.

Here are transcribed instructions. Note that for this to work, your OSD must be connected to your network.

1.   Download the files onto a USB key, SD card or other media.
2.   Plug the media into your OSD.
3.   Download and install the TightVNC client. Free software for non-commercial use!
4.   Figure out the IP address of your OSD by navigating to Settings > Network on your TV. Usually the IP address begins with “192.168″ or “10.”.
5.   Telnet to your OSD. In Windows, you can do this by going to Start > Run and typing “telnet “, where you replace IP address with the IP address. So, in our case, we entered “telnet 192.168.200.72″ and pressed enter. Username is root, password is pablod .
6.   Navigate to your media’s folder. As we plugged in a USB key into the OSD, we navigated to it with the commands (without the quotes): “cd /media/USB”
7.   Run the command indicated in Bagster’s README.TXT file (without the quotes): “./x11vnc -rawfb fb0 -pipeinput ./send_ir.sh -forever”
8.   Run the TightVNC Viewer. Enter the IP address for your OSD. Again, in our case, it is 192.168.200.72. Press Connect, and off you go!

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