I'm pretty sure this is the wrong list, but maybe some clever people here can redirect me...
I have a "RCA RS2100 Bookshelf Audio System" http://www.woot.com/blog/viewentry.aspx?id=2744 This is radio/CD/mp3 player... PLUS it can stream audio wirelessly. You plug a USB device into your PC and you can remote control what gets played from the RS2100 remote control ("Wireless Musiclink").
BUT only with Windows Media Center.
When I plugged the device in it appears to look like 3 devices; a HID, an audio device and something else I can't remember (I'm not at that machine at the moment). My feeling is that the HID is used to inject commands from the RS2100 (eg "play track <x>"), the audio device is for streaming and the third device is feedback for the remote display.
The question I have... how can I reverse engineer the protocol used so that I can make this work on my CentOS machine? (I don't want to run a Windows instance just for remote audio!). Any hints, tips, pointers etc much appreciated.
Thanks!
2010/4/30 Stephen Harris lists@spuddy.org:
I'm pretty sure this is the wrong list, but maybe some clever people here can redirect me...
I have a "RCA RS2100 Bookshelf Audio System" http://www.woot.com/blog/viewentry.aspx?id=2744 This is radio/CD/mp3 player... PLUS it can stream audio wirelessly. You plug a USB device into your PC and you can remote control what gets played from the RS2100 remote control ("Wireless Musiclink").
BUT only with Windows Media Center.
When I plugged the device in it appears to look like 3 devices; a HID, an audio device and something else I can't remember (I'm not at that machine at the moment). My feeling is that the HID is used to inject commands from the RS2100 (eg "play track <x>"), the audio device is for streaming and the third device is feedback for the remote display.
The question I have... how can I reverse engineer the protocol used so that I can make this work on my CentOS machine? (I don't want to run a Windows instance just for remote audio!). Any hints, tips, pointers etc much appreciated.
try usbsnoop or similar tools.
-- Eero, RHCE
At Fri, 30 Apr 2010 18:49:34 +0300 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote:
2010/4/30 Stephen Harris lists@spuddy.org:
I'm pretty sure this is the wrong list, but maybe some clever people here can redirect me...
I have a "RCA RS2100 Bookshelf Audio System" http://www.woot.com/blog/viewentry.aspx?id=2744 This is radio/CD/mp3 player... PLUS it can stream audio wirelessly. You plug a USB device into your PC and you can remote control what gets played from the RS2100 remote control ("Wireless Musiclink").
BUT only with Windows Media Center.
When I plugged the device in it appears to look like 3 devices; a HID, an audio device and something else I can't remember (I'm not at that machine at the moment). My feeling is that the HID is used to inject commands from the RS2100 (eg "play track <x>"), the audio device is for streaming and the third device is feedback for the remote display.
The question I have... how can I reverse engineer the protocol used so that I can make this work on my CentOS machine? (I don't want to run a Windows instance just for remote audio!). Any hints, tips, pointers etc much appreciated.
try usbsnoop or similar tools.
You can also connect up with the libusb mailing list on sourceforge. Someone there might have already written a user-mode driver for it.
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