FreeAgent Theater and GoFlexTV

[hexcide]

Funny you should ask....

Here's the commands from the earlier NetRemote app (circa FW2.20), but as Seagate are still directing non-US users to that version even for FW 2.23, I imagine the commands are the same. Still anxiously awaiting the newer Seagate branded app to see if there's more fun to be had.

Commands are 4 bytes sent to TCP port 9999 of the format

48 12 XX 00

(HEXADECIMAL!)

where XX varies for each command thus:

07: left
06: right
40: up

41: down

1B: back

30: end

51: ff

39: home

47: info

1A: menu

59: mute

0E: ok

54: pause

4F: play

38: power
52: rew
31: start
33: voldown

32: volup

35: zoomin

08: zoomout

Hope the names make sense. This was culled from a batch file I quickly wrote a few weeks ago to test out the theory and I just made up names for the keys on the remote. Couldn't be bothered looking up the manual to find out if Seagate actually named the keys. Given the accuracy of the rest of the manual, it probably refers to them as QWERTY ;-)

[questmaster]

Hey, cool. Didn't expect such a detailed answer May be i have some time tomorrow or next week, then i will plug a small android app together and give it a try...

Thanks!

The branded app has some support for using the smartphones keyboard for entering text and can display/select files from the attached disks and start their playback (AFAIK). So some interesting things are to come...

CU

   questmaster

[dm]

how can these commands be sent via telnet? I've tried via port 9999 and 8082 .

I assume that is what the iphone is doing?

any ideas?

Why cant they just release a dam PC version of the remote..my lord...

[hexcide]

Use Netcat for Windows instead of telnet.

nc 192.168.1.xx 9999 <4bytedata.file

[bodhi78]

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hexcide wrote:

Use Netcat for Windows instead of telnet.

nc 192.168.1.xx 9999 <4bytedata.file

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This is pretty cool app. I'd say it's nice to see Seagate added a great functionality to the box This has made up for some of the bugs we've been complaining about.

[Elysian]

I've upgraded to 2.20 but I cannot find any app called "Netremote" on the Australian iTunes store.  Has it been nerfed?

[bodhi78]

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hexcide wrote:

Funny you should ask....

Here's the commands from the earlier NetRemote app (circa FW2.20), but as Seagate are still directing non-US users to that version even for FW 2.23, I imagine the commands are the same. Still anxiously awaiting the newer Seagate branded app to see if there's more fun to be had.

Commands are 4 bytes sent to TCP port 9999 of the format

48 12 XX 00

(HEXADECIMAL!)

where XX varies for each command thus:

07: left
06: right
40: up

41: down

1B: back

30: end

51: ff

39: home

47: info

1A: menu

59: mute

0E: ok

54: pause

4F: play

38: power
52: rew
31: start
33: voldown

32: volup

35: zoomin

08: zoomout

Hope the names make sense. This was culled from a batch file I quickly wrote a few weeks ago to test out the theory and I just made up names for the keys on the remote. Couldn't be bothered looking up the manual to find out if Seagate actually named the keys. Given the accuracy of the rest of the manual, it probably refers to them as QWERTY ;-)

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hexcide, Any idea what type of protocol is this? something made up by Seagate devs? did you sniff the traffics or looked at the source code somewhere (is such source code available or hidden in the dvdplayer program?).

[hexcide]

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bodhi78 wrote:

hexcide, Any idea what type of protocol is this? something made up by Seagate devs? did you sniff the traffics or looked at the source code somewhere (is such source code available or hidden in the dvdplayer program?).

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bodhi78,

Not sure on the protocol. I had wondered, but not yet been able to determine, if it's related to the IPC or RPC used internally by DvdPlayer. The four bytes sent seems overkill otherwise to just implement 20 or so key presses. I haven't yet determined the pattern (if any) to the numbers, though I have tried hunting for hidden functionality in other numbers, without great success.

I sniffed the traffic to determine those codes, the implementation of which is buried in the closed source of DvdPlayer (and not AFAIK in the few early leaked sources from other distros).

[hexcide]

I guess heck has frozen over and I missed the news

The Seagate branded remote app is finally now available in the Australian iTunes Store. (Search for "Seagate")

[bodhi78]

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hexcide wrote:

Use Netcat for Windows instead of telnet.

nc 192.168.1.xx 9999 <4bytedata.file

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@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?