bodhi78 wrote:
@hexcide,
Can you write a command using "busybox-mipsel nc" to send a volume-up inside the FAT+? we could have a cron job executing this command every 55 minutes. Would this prevent the FAT+ going to auto-sleep mode?
Yes I can. Yes we could. Yes it does. Unusually brief answers from me 
Alas, it's not without it's quirks - see, you weren't getting rid of me that quickly
The standard key behaviour is different depending on whether the screensaver is active or not. If the screensaver is active, the first key press (via the real remote or via netcat) simply deactivates the screensaver. But if the screensaver is not active (as in when there has been some recent user interaction or the unit is playing a movie) then the key's action is actually performed.
In your proposed scenario, when watching a movie, the volume would increase every 55 minutes. Maybe you, like me, use the TV's volume control instead and leave the FAT's volume at max. Still the volume up causes the volume display to flash up briefly even if it is already at max. That certainly annoyed my family :-(
The best solution I found was to send the Zoom Out command instead. Who zooms in anyway? If a movie is playing and you Zoom Out (when, presumably it is not zoomed in), NOTHING happens on-screen. Happy family
So, use something like this to keep the unit awake and your family calm:
#!/bin/sh while (`sleep 3300`) do echo -e "\x48\x12\x08\x00" | /usr/local/etc/bin/busybox-mipsel nc 127.0.0.1 9999 done
hexcide wrote:
bodhi78 wrote:
@hexcide,
Can you write a command using "busybox-mipsel nc" to send a volume-up inside the FAT+? we could have a cron job executing this command every 55 minutes. Would this prevent the FAT+ going to auto-sleep mode?
Yes I can. Yes we could. Yes it does. Unusually brief answers from me
Alas, it's not without it's quirks - see, you weren't getting rid of me that quickly
The standard key behaviour is different depending on whether the screensaver is active or not. If the screensaver is active, the first key press (via the real remote or via netcat) simply deactivates the screensaver. But if the screensaver is not active (as in when there has been some recent user interaction or the unit is playing a movie) then the key's action is actually performed.
In your proposed scenario, when watching a movie, the volume would increase every 55 minutes. Maybe you, like me, use the TV's volume control instead and leave the FAT's volume at max. Still the volume up causes the volume display to flash up briefly even if it is already at max. That certainly annoyed my family :-(
The best solution I found was to send the Zoom Out command instead. Who zooms in anyway?
So, use something like this to keep the unit awake and your family calm:
#!/bin/sh
while (`sleep 3300`)
do
echo -e "\x48\x12\x08\x00" | /usr/local/etc/bin/busybox-mipsel nc 127.0.0.1 9999
done
Awesome! that's a great idea Zoom-Out is way better than Volume-Up. I looked at the list of commands and thought of Volume-Up precisely because, as you said, I always have the FAT+ at max volume for the AV Receiver. I will try this tonight. And that's a very nice script too :-)
Has anyone come up with an Android version of this? Otherwise I was thinking of having a go.
Couple of questions for people who own the Iphone version ...
- Does anybody know how the search feature works?
- Has/Can anyone with an iphone find out what command it sends to get the movie list?
- Also what it sends for key presses on the keyboard would also be nice.
mus wrote:Couple of questions for people who own the Iphone version ...
- Does anybody know how the search feature works?
- Has/Can anyone with an iphone find out what command it sends to get the movie list?
- Also what it sends for key presses on the keyboard would also be nice.
- No idea. Haven't been able to test this.
- 48 12 fe 00 (though no idea what gets sent back as all my testing was with 2.20 which doesn't support this feature)
- 48 12 f9 41 is 'A' - replace the last byte with the ASCII code for the character you want. My tests with sending Japanese Unicode characters have been a total failure. So far I have successfully tested only the characters in the Anglo-centric 7-bit ASCII set, though the Euro-centric 8-bit Latin character set, probably works. Es tut mir leid.
hexcide wrote:
Yes I can. Yes we could. Yes it does. Unusually brief answers from me
Alas, it's not without it's quirks - see, you weren't getting rid of me that quickly
The standard key behaviour is different depending on whether the screensaver is active or not. If the screensaver is active, the first key press (via the real remote or via netcat) simply deactivates the screensaver. But if the screensaver is not active (as in when there has been some recent user interaction or the unit is playing a movie) then the key's action is actually performed.
In your proposed scenario, when watching a movie, the volume would increase every 55 minutes. Maybe you, like me, use the TV's volume control instead and leave the FAT's volume at max. Still the volume up causes the volume display to flash up briefly even if it is already at max. That certainly annoyed my family :-(
The best solution I found was to send the Zoom Out command instead. Who zooms in anyway?
So, use something like this to keep the unit awake and your family calm:
#!/bin/sh while (`sleep 3300`) do echo -e "\x48\x12\x08\x00" | /usr/local/etc/bin/busybox-mipsel nc 127.0.0.1 9999 done
This works great you've solved the biggest problem that I think we all have.
One caveat, the IP address must be the FAT+ real IP address. It did not work just leave it as local host 127.0.0.1 (at least not for me). I use the real IP address and it stays up for 3 hours so far
bodhi78 wrote:
This works great
One caveat, the IP address must be the FAT+ real IP address. It did not work just leave it as local host 127.0.0.1 (at least not for me). I use the real IP address and it stays up for 3 hours so far
Odd! 127.0.0.1 has worked fine for sending commands for me since February (though still on 2.20)
For 48 12 fe 00 I get 00 00 00 00 as return value if no drive is connected and 00 78 14 00 + sqliteDB of all known files, if a drive is connected
I found some other codes:
48 12 fd 00 - waits for input
48 12 fc 00 - returns "Venus" on FAT+ 2.23
48 12 fa 00 - waits for input, aft connection closed returns 8byte 03 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
So, it would be interesting to get a network trace (e.g. via wireshark) of an iphone and the FAT+ doing a search, selecting a movie for playback and sending a picture to reverseengineer these functions. I would guess that it uses some of the codes above, but as we have to send something back, it would be nice to have something to rely on...
Another thing is to verify what a goflex tv returns for the 48 12 fc 00 command. Also 'Venus' or something else... This can be used to automate the device discovery...
CU
