Yes that can be done but it is not 'Building a FoxSat' by any stretch of the imagination.thanks for your reply black hole. i was hoping it might be possible to install the firmware as an emulator on a pc that has all the same components installed. e'g satellite receiver, hard drive hdmi ins and outs etc.
Hypothetically, yes it's possible... but you would be starting from scratch trying to write an emulator in the first place. The internal processing uses a different instruction set than a PC, then the hardware you need to emulate is undocumented (in the public domain) and inaccessible for examination (buried inside the Broadcom chip).i was hoping it might be possible to install the firmware as an emulator on a pc that has all the same components installed.