Quotehave never heard of such a project as I dont think it´s neither possible nor viable/feasible as a WAP...
The original idea was to have a separate router/AP, but I came to the conclusion that hooking up a WiFi dongle to a receiver might be possible. My line of thought was, hook up a wireless dongle with AP mode capability (some Ralink and Atheros devices, for instance) to the USB port, make that available to the STB's OS as a wlan interface, set it to AP mode, install a DHCP server (e.g., Dnsmasq), etc.
Of course, I'm coming from a desktop/server Linux background, so this is strictly based on my experiences on such platforms, and a limited knowledge of platforms like OpenWrt, which run on equipment that normally serves as WAP. So, am I missing something? Why do you think it's not feasible on STBs?
QuoteWhy would you want to..???
Also, I'm not really interested in sharing TV/video/audio or recordings thereof. I have a completely different use case in mind (it's a long story). It's for this: www.outernet.is