Now it seems I may have made a mistake...

I use eventghost for all the automation that I currently have and wanted to use the tellstick primarily for receiving the remote commands and information from other sensors for eventghost to process, but it appears this isn't currently possible?
I have read the ticket #114 which hints that this is in progress but seems to be complicated and has no updates for 5 months
Am I right in thinking this? Is there anyway to 'downgrade' a net box to a duo by flashing the firmware so I can plug it into my server via usb and ignore the ethernet for now? thanks for any info.
thanks
Phil