2010/4/30 Stephen Harris <lists at 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