Hijack v311: added home/office dock detection

Okay, I have just finished hacking dock unit #001 and Hijack v311 to allow detection of "docked" operation, so that it selects the AC/Home user settings instead of the DC/Car settings.

Here's what I am doing for the docks I am building:

Since they do not have, nor have room for, a Tuner module.. all that I am doing is looping back the tuner's TX/RX serial lines on the docking connector. That is, I am simply connecting pins 6 and 7 together on the docking connector.

Hijack v311 now does a quickie loopback test on the TUNER serial port at boot time, and if it finds the two pins connected together, then it forces AC/Home mode.

For those of us (like me) who have other types of docking stations with tuners installed, I may eventually extend this test to look for a specific tuner-ID (that little rotary switch on the tuner module) when a real tuner is connected. Later.

Hijack v311 will be released shortly.

Cheers

Hey! No fair trying to artificially inflate your post count by copying-and-pasting the same message.

Yipeee

i can dump my bike spoke method

Which worked great

Oopps.. the dock detection in v311 fails after power-on, but works after reboots.. so v312 has been released to get it to work under all conditions.

-ml

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Since they do not have, nor have room for, a Tuner module.. all that I am doing is looping back the tuner's TX/RX serial lines on the docking connector. That is, I am simply connecting pins 6 and 7 together on the docking connector.

Hijack v311 now does a quickie loopback test on the TUNER serial port at boot time, and if it finds the two pins connected together, then it forces AC/Home mode.

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Hey, schweet! I was curious how you were going to pull that off when I saw it in your dock page.
I know your busy with some new Linux stuff (as you aid in your other post).. What's the projected outline on the docks? (Not being pushy, Just curious. I gotta install my Empeg in my auto soon.. Heck, take all the time you want. It helps with the cashflow issues.)

Me.

See the thread in ForSale -- I recently posted a status update.

Cheers