I'd forgotten - I kept trying to get this to work, but no matter what I did with the loopback I couldn't get it to recognise it was in a dock. Which is a pity, because the workaround is to have servers forced on always...which includes when the empeg is in the car...wasting valuable resource.

Can someone reiterate which pins should be connected, and where just so I can try and get this sorted, please.

(apologies for being more moronic than usual today)

Okay, that helps a bit - mine is built from a car sled, so I'll need to check my pins 6 and 7 to see I have things the right way round.

I might just follow Tony's idea and go for the power plug mod.

So does Hijack still/now include the ;@DOCKED option?

I'm sure it does, but that doesn't help flash upgrades. The part of protected flash that waits on the serial port for an upgrade signal is executed before the kernel takes over. So if you are sled-docked and the AC sensor switch isn't tripped, there is no way for the player to listen for a serial port upgrade. No matter what tricks hijack does.