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Rockbox'd Ipod + Pioneer Ipod-Ready Reciever = NO GO!

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GodEater:

--- Quote from: DaveTheRave on November 15, 2007, 04:08:23 AM ---
Question One: Are There Any Accessories (That Are Currently Supported) That Support An On-Screen Menu? I'll Go Out And Buy It Product If Necessary. I Need A Way To View My Music On My TV And I NEED Rockbox.. I Love My FLACs Too Much  :(

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No.


--- Quote ---Question Two: Is It Possible To Integrate This Feature Into Rockbox? (Either By Rockbox Developers Or A Third-Party Developer AKA My Friend Next Door) I Know It Would Make A Great Addon Because This Feature Is Pretty Much On All Ipod-Ready Receivers, Including Pioneers.

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The problem has been widely discussed here before, but since you're new, I'll cut you some slack and sum up again briefly.

Implementing this as a feature in Rockbox requires two things :

1) A working serial port via the dock on the ipod
2) Someone to implement Apple's Accessory Protocol over that serial port.

Now 2) is mostly possible, since the good folks at iPodLinux have done a fairly good job on reverse engineering the protocol - so it's possible to do it.

Unfortunately there's no point doing 2) until 1) is possible. Currently no-one knows how to make 1) work.

scharkalvin:
I thought that iPod Linux HAD figured out the serial port hw since (IIRC) they HAD a serial terminal working over it.  I'll have to dl the ipod linux sources and grep them.
If they indeed have a serial driver working (might only be on certain ipods and I only have access to a mini and a 4thG) I want to look into this.

mikeage:
[quote author=DaveTheRave link=topic=13771.msg103490#msg103490 Oh, I Don't Quite Know. I Did It When I Was Younger And.. Well.. Still Doing It! lol Its Called "Camel Caps" Apparently.. [http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Camel+Caps]
[/quote]

CamelCaps is a variable naming convention, when you smush words together to create name variable (such as CurIdx) instead of separating them (such as cur_idx).

Oh, and I used to stick pencils up my nose when I was younger, but I stopped doing that. 'Nuff said.

GodEater:

--- Quote from: scharkalvin on November 15, 2007, 07:56:38 AM ---I thought that iPod Linux HAD figured out the serial port hw since (IIRC) they HAD a serial terminal working over it.  I'll have to dl the ipod linux sources and grep them.
If they indeed have a serial driver working (might only be on certain ipods and I only have access to a mini and a 4thG) I want to look into this.

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I believe they figured out the serial port on the 1st through 3rd gen iPods - 4th gen and later were never figured out. Since the Poster here has a Video iPod - that work is of no use.

DaveTheRave:

--- Quote from: GodEater on November 15, 2007, 04:12:13 AM ---I believe they figured out the serial port on the 1st through 3rd gen iPods - 4th gen and later were never figured out. Since the Poster here has a Video iPod - that work is of no use.

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He Speaks The Truth.

--- Quote from: Rufus ---There is no driver for the serial device on > 3G iPods, so no, not yet.

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:(


--- Quote from: GodEater on November 15, 2007, 04:12:13 AM ---1) A working serial port via the dock on the ipod

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Like.. This?
http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/18/how-to-design-your-own-ipod-super-dock-part-1/

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