Locked out of 'God Mode', runners are hacking their treadmills

Re:Locked out of 'God Mode', runners are hacking their tread... by patrickk on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @02:29AM (#29990910)

I got an LG CX tv and never hooked it up to the internet. It acts as a (very pretty) yet dumb tv like the old days.

An Nvidia shield handles all the streaming, kodi handles local files etc, all the media that I could possibly need.

4k is handled by default out of the box.

Surround sound is handled by an AV receiver. (Atmos surround is available if I wish to further upgrade the 7.1 speakers).

It can be done. Granted, it’s not cheap and installing all these devices can be painful, but still.

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Re:Locked out of 'God Mode', runners are hacking their tread... by bierjunge on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @09:17AM (#29993827)

I have bad news for you. Even if the TV is not connected to your WiFi, it could still get into the network over other devices connected via HDMI with HEC [0].

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDMI#HEC

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Re:Locked out of 'God Mode', runners are hacking their tread... by patrickk on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @10:25AM (#29994790)

Although it could be a general concern, it unlikely to affect me.

Since all the HDMI connections are via a (slightly older, non-connected) AV receiver, its almost impossible for this to affect my setup. But it's indeed a sleazy move by those setting the HDMI standards.

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Re:Locked out of 'God Mode', runners are hacking their tread... by brokenmachine on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @05:43PM (#30001496)

Have there been any devices confirmed to use this yet?

I'm getting so tired of these constant battles with the devices I paid for.

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