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Ipod classic 7th Gen (160Gb) + Apple Universal dock (including an Apple Remote)

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roybati:
I mean, is there a way to remotely control the ipod classic with rockbox on, even with another system, maybe wi-fi or IR or a gadget... whatever?


thanks!

saratoga:

--- Quote from: roybati on February 24, 2015, 04:36:15 AM ---I mean, is there a way to remotely control the ipod classic with rockbox on, even with another system, maybe wi-fi or IR or a gadget... whatever?

--- End quote ---

At the moment no, you can only control it through the ipod's buttons.  The interface on the dock has been partially reverse engineered but is not yet implemented so it will not do anything but play music and charge through the dock connector, and only for simple devices that do not require any kind of authentication, encryption or digital interaction with the player. 

Odinos:
So this topic was regarding a dock remote, but what about a remote on the headphones cable? is there a way to make that work?

bobba_mosfet:
Hi all,

I have been using rockbox on the ipod6g for 1.5 years or so now and have built 4 of these things (2 have been stolen -.-).

I use my one on my commute every day and love rockbox.

I'm compiling my own bootloader (made edits so that it is impossible to boot the OF) and making a few custom changes here and there (99999 files in playlist instead of 10000).

I recently bought an Apple universal dock and got a remote and I would like to make it work.

The volume commands work - and the skip and play/pause buttons cause the ipods screen to wake but rockbox does not do anything else.

@saratoga you mentioned that this has been partially reverse engineered? Can you please point me towards whatever existing work is available?

I have no issues with compiling a debug build and working on this myself I just need a slight nudge in the right direction. I have been monitoring the GPIO pins as I use the remote but it's hard to tell exactly what is happening!

bobba_mosfet:
I have found: https://nuxx.net/wiki/Apple_Accessory_Protocol

and rockbox/firmware/target/arm/s5l8702/ipod6g/serial-6g.c which appears to be the preliminary serial support for making this work.

I'm having a bit of trouble generating a logf, but I will keep trying to generate some output that might help me make this thing work!

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