Type your comment> @h0l1st1c4l said:
finally rooted! great box. took me some time for user due to the unusual OS but the green vegetable did help. path to root was new to me. probably easy to someone who is familiar with this functionalities. unfortunately it looks like someone already put up an indirect writeup for root on the net (it doesnt say explicitely so but the screenshots are a kind of an obvious giveaway) and using google will show it as one of the first hits.
Unfortunately yes, I fell into this trap, but I don’t consider it as “cheating”, because the article explains how the privesc works. I would have learned something 