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[Problem] Griffin iFM Radio Receiver for iPhone and iPod

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ravital:
Hello, reporting a problem:

Player: iPod Videl 5th Gen. (5.5)
Rockbox software v. 3.9

Accessory: Griffin iFM Radio Receiver for iPhone and iPod - has a doc connector, short cable to a "dongle" which is the FM tuner, with earphone jack on the dongle.  No batteries or other power source.

Here's a link to the product's Amazon page:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003ERT46W

Booting into Apple firmware
1. Turned player on with nothing plugged in, the "Radio" menu item does not show up.  Plugged in the Griffin iFM, the "Radio" menu item shows up, and when I select it, I get the FM frequency and dial, I can tune it, it works.  I did not have to download anything at all from the Apple iTunes store.

2. Turned player on with iFM plugged in - the "Radio" menu item shows up, and from there it all works as above.

Booting into Rockbox OS
1. Turned player on with nothing plugged in, then plugged the iFM on the dock connector, the "FM Radio" item never shows up.

2. Turned player on with iFM plugged in, still no "FM Radio" on the menu.

3. Went into System then Debug then FM Radio - got message: "HW Detected: no"

So Rockbox does not detect it at all.  And there's no sense expecting that any Apple/iTunes software would do anything under Rockbox.

What's interesting is, that with the player off (under both Apple and Rockbox OS), if I only plug in the Griffin iFM to the dock connector, and do nothing else, the player turns on.  So there must be some kind of hardware detection there.

Has this been reported anywhere?  Is this the proper forum to report this?  If not, could you direct me to the proper page?

Thanks in advance.

ravital:
Where should this be posted so developers see it and possibly address the problem?

Thanks

saratoga:
There's a flyspray tasks for ipod accessories that aren't detected, and a wiki page where you can report what works with Rockbox.

ravital:
Many thanks saratoga, done.  Entered in Flyspray.

Happy Fourth  :)

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