At Fri, 30 Apr 2010 18:49:34 +0300 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote: > > 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" > > Â 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). Â 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? Â (I don't want to run > > a Windows instance just for remote audio!). Â 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. > > -- > Eero, > RHCE > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 Deepwoods Software -- Download the Model Railroad System http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Binaries for Linux and MS-Windows heller at deepsoft.com -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ModelRailroadSystem/