ZTE and SEI Robotics: the same box under nine logos
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| Boxes in the list | 209 rows, 109 brands, 168 platforms |
|---|---|
| ZTE B866 family | 9 brands, all of them operator boxes |
| SEI prefix | 13 brands, 20 rows |
| ZTE publishes | B866V2K with Android TV 11, 2 GB and 8 GB eMMC |
| SEI Robotics publishes | SEI800 with 2 GB and 8 GB; 4 GB and 16 GB optional |
| The operator publishes | waipu.tv, everything; HD+, half; Claro, nothing |
| Energy label | EPREL has no set-top box product group |
| Source | Google Play device list and the ZTE and SEI sites |
This site has already shown that 401 of the 439 television brands have no platform of their own. Set-top boxes work the same way, only more brazenly: here the logo on the front is your phone company's, and they do not even sell you the device.
The Google Play device list behind this directory holds 209 rows of players and set-top boxes, 109 brands spread across 168 platforms. One family inside it keeps coming back.
Five operators, three continents, one box
These five rows are verbatim, exactly as they sit in the file:
Claro Claro TV Box 4k B866VH
Drei ZTE 4K TV BOX CH1 B866VH_Hutchison
Telenor(HU) Hipernet TV Box Hipernet_TV_Box_B866V2
O2.CZ O2 TV Box O2TV_B866V2
unitel BOX TV 4K UNITEL NET CASA Unitel_B866V6-H
Brazil and Latin America, Austria, Hungary, Czechia and Angola. The
device field is what the box itself answers when asked what it is, and in
all five rows it says B866V: ZTE's model number.
Drei does not even hide it. Its declared model is, literally,
ZTE 4K TV BOX CH1. Its help page links a quick-start PDF hosted on
drei.at whose cover reads, on two lines, "ZTE 4K TV Box CH1" and below it
ZXV10 B866V6-H, with ZTE Corporation's Shenzhen address in the footer.
That B866V6-H is the same model Unitel hands out in Angola with its own
name on the front.
All told, the B866V family shows up under nine brands in the list. On
top of the five above come Dens TV, Hime TV, POP TV and PTCL SHOQ TV, and
two of those four do not even bother inventing a commercial name: the
model they declare is, literally, B866V2FA V5.1 and B866V2F.
What ZTE does publish
ZTE has public spec sheets for several of these boxes, and that is where
the figures the operators withhold are sitting. The ZXV10 B866V2K page
says: quad-core ARM Cortex-A35 CPU, ARM G31 MP2 GPU, RAM 2 GB DDR
(optional 4 GB), flash 8 GB eMMC (optional 16 or 32 GB), Wi-Fi 5,
HDMI 2.0b with HDCP 2.3, Widevine L1 and PlayReady 3.0, and operating
system Android TV 11. 108 × 108 × 23 mm, 185 g.
The ZXV10 B866V2-H sheet is blunter about who it serves: "It also
supports Playready and Widevine DRM and helps operators offer stable
services to users", and it advertises Netflix, Prime Video and Disney+
preinstalled. That is the product, not the brand: the operator adds the
sticker.
ZTE also publishes a ZXV10 B866GV6H, the combo variant (gateway, router
and set-top box in one), and a B866W11K, its own retail stick. In the
directory that stick appears under the ZTE brand on platform YEV.
The Claro case, which contradicts itself
The list holds two Claro rows with exactly the same commercial name,
Claro TV Box 4k, on two different platforms:
Claro Claro TV Box 4k B866VH
Claro Claro TV Box 4k SEI800AMX
One is ZTE, the other Shenzhen SEI Robotics. Same product on the shelf, two different manufacturers inside, and no way to know which one you get before the box is open.
The second fingerprint: SEI Robotics
Shenzhen SEI Robotics has a row of its own in the list, with boxes under
its own name, and its SEI prefix turns up under 13 brands across 20
rows:
Claro CLARO BOX TV SEI810CCOA
Claro Claro TV Box 4k SEI800AMX
Claro Claro TV Stick 4k SEI900AMXS
GOTV GO TV Box SEID04GM
MTN MTN Smart TV Box SEI740DEM
Odido 4K TV Box SEI800TFAS
waiputv waipu tv stick SEI700WP
waiputv waipu.tv Box SEID00BWP
waiputv waipu.tv Stick (G2) SEID00DWP
HD_Plus HD+ IP TV-Stick SEI900HDPLUS
Austrostream TV Box SEID00ORS
Here the proof is cleaner still, because the manufacturer's own catalogue
uses the same codes. On seirobotics.net every product carries an "Item No."
field: SEI800 for the Amlogic S905X4 box, SEI700D for the dongle,
SEI530 for the hybrid, then SEI400, SEI300B, SEI300D, SEI110,
SEI830. What sits behind SEI800AMX, SEI800TFAS or SEI700WP is the
ODM's catalogue number with the customer's initials stuck on the end.
The SEI800 sheet publishes what the operator will not: Amlogic S905X4,
2 GB DDR3/DDR4 (4 GB optional), 8 GB eMMC (16 GB optional),
Android TV 10, and "Assistant, Play Store, Google Cast". The SEI700D,
2 GB DDR3 and 8 GB eMMC expandable to 16.
On its UK PSTI compliance page, SEI Robotics declares a security update
window running from 01/03/2026 to 01/03/2032 for five of its products,
SEI900DBP and SEID00GHAG among them. On the page next door the same
company signs the policy jointly with TELUS Communications Inc. and gives a
@telus.com address as the vulnerability contact. The ODM underwrites the
security of the operator's product.
Who publishes and who does not
With the same manufacturer behind them, each operator says whatever it likes.
waipu.tv publishes everything, and it is the exception: the spec table
for its second-generation Stick (SEID00DWP in the list) gives Amlogic
S905X5M, Android 14 for TV, 3 GB DDR4, 32 GB eMMC, Wi-Fi 6 and
HDMI 2.1. It also says the device is "zur Miete", rented, and that on its
own it costs 79.99 €.
HD+ publishes half of it: Android 14, 32 GB of storage, a "Quad Core A55" chip and access to the Google Play Store. No RAM figure anywhere.
Claro publishes nothing. Its official help page for the Box Claro tv+ answers fourteen questions, all of them about channels, apps and support, and not one says who built the box, what version of Android it runs or how much memory it has.
O2 Czechia does not either. On its Oneplay Box page the commercial name
appears seventeen times and the strings ZTE and B866 appear zero times.
The ones who do say it are the Czech second-hand shops, which list it as
"Oneplay Box, černá (ZTE ZXV10 B866V2)".
And no, there is no energy label to rescue the figure here: EPREL does
not cover set-top boxes. Its API answers INVALID_PRODUCT_GROUP to every
set-top box group, and under electronic displays neither ZTE nor SEI
Robotics has a single record.
Worth remembering whose box it is. Odido, on its own returns page, lists "TV boxen" among the equipment you must send back when you cancel. It is not yours.
How to tell what you have
Stop reading the logo and ask the device:
adb shell getprop ro.product.device
Whatever comes out (B866VH, O2TV_B866V2, SEI800AMX, SEI700WP) is
what to look up in the directory. And here is the useful
part: the package list from one of these boxes works for the others in
its family, because the base software does not come from the operator.
If the remote will not reach developer options, Settings → System → About shows the model and the Android version, which already narrows it down a lot. As for whether these boxes let you enable debugging: not one of the pages downloaded, from either the operators or the two manufacturers, says a word about it. What is written down is that they are certified Android TV with the Google Play Store, so the route is the same as on any television.
What comes off and what does not
Goes without argument: the streaming apps you do not use and the preinstalled games.
Look first: the operator's own app. It is the one delivering the television you pay for, and on several of these boxes it is also the launcher. Remove it and you no longer have a product.
Do not touch: Google Play services (com.google.android.gms), the
launcher (com.google.android.tvlauncher on Google TV,
com.google.android.leanbacklauncher on Android TV), or anything starting
with com.android. without knowing what it is.
One warning specific to these devices: if the box is rented, a factory reset can force a re-provisioning only the operator can perform. Write down every package you disable with the full command beside it.
The television parallel is the piece on Blaupunkt, Hyundai and JVC, and the comparison with devices you can actually buy and own is in external players.
If you have one
From these boxes we mostly need one thing: the output of
adb shell getprop ro.product.device along with the operator's name and
the product name. That is what confirms which operators are handing out the
same device, which is exactly what none of them publishes.