UE32F5000 (Non Smart TV) - samba streaming or anything cool?

[dusf]

Hi

With help from this community, after successfully rooting our H series, configuring Samba, and apps from different regions we are very happy with it.

We have a second older TV, a UE32F5000. This television was bought on a budget and researching at the time it seemed the best picture quality for the money. Unfortunately this meant there are no Smart TV features and the best it can do at the moment is play video or audio from a connected external drive, which we now have connected to our router to samba files to our awesome H series!

I am assuming there is definitely no way it can run any Smart Hub apps like BBC iPlayer etc as it is probably lacking the required hardware - but please correct me if I am wrong!.

Is there anyway to setup Samba on it, or anything else useful?

I looked at the link from the wiki to root F-Series but they all seem to involved first installing Skype, which I cannot do as the TV does not have Smart Hub.

Please advise.

[zoelechat]

All known rooting methods are using widgets from Smarthub. Non-Smart TVs have no Smarthub -> no installable widgets -> no root -> no samba nor "anything cool" except built-in features

[dusf]

All known rooting methods are using widgets from Smarthub. Non-Smart TVs have no Smarthub -> no installable widgets -> no root -> no samba nor "anything cool" except built-in features

Thanks, I had to ask just in case

[AndyB]

I've just been given an F5000, and I'm confused.. I understand you need to smart hub to be able to root, and that the 5000 doesn't have one, but why does mine have the network port on it ?

What is the intent if it can't do anything (it gets an IP address and says its connected, but thats it). My confusion comes as some of the other posts suggest the 5000 does not have the network components installed, should I rip the back off and see if it has any of the other chips on (but not enabled) or have other people already done that?

Still a fantastic tv for free, would be unbelievable if I could add iptv or allow the media player media access.