[AusNOG] iPhone serial port

Karl Kloppenborg karl at karltec.net
Fri Nov 5 15:27:57 EST 2010 

I would be glad to write us a app and get it on the apple store,

I have had experience with it and I would be able to pull it off ;) (For a few beers of course) 

Cheers!
Karl Kloppenborg


On 05/11/2010, at 14:07, James Paussa wrote:

> "SkyWire will be available in December 2010."
> 
> I hear it might be bundled with Duke Nukem Forever.
> 
> -James.
> 
> On Fri, November 5, 2010 12:51 pm, Dmitri Kalintsev wrote:
>> Here's one more, this time it's an "Apple-approved" accessory, and
>> 
>> "Unlike other "iPhone serial cables" available on the internet, you don't
>> have to jailbreak your iPhone to use it."
>> 
>> Linky:
>> 
>> http://www.southernstars.com/products/skywire/index.html
>> 
>> On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 3:08 PM, Chris Pollock <
>> Chris.Pollock at staff.pipenetworks.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>>> http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/10/28/1613227/The-iPhone
>>> -Serial-Port-Hack<http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/10/28/1613227/The-iPhone%0A-Serial-Port-Hack>
>>>> Congratulations - you made Slashdot!
>>> 
>>> Oh look at that!  I saw it on Zdnet and Computerworld AU yesterday, I
>>> was pretty pleased at the interest.  I'm going to make a few more by
>>> hand, but hopefully I should have the some manufactured units to sell in
>>> a month.
>>> 
>>>> I see you're using the Ikea rack mount system. :)
>>> 
>>> Haha yes, I love my Lack!  Super convenient way to keep a few small
>>> rackmount devices in your house.  I think you had the right idea about
>>> the port on the device by the way. Despite nearly everyone requesting
>>> DB9, I think the right answer is pre-rolled RJ45 as you -always- have
>>> access to an Ethernet cable.
>>> 
>>> --
>>> Chris Pollock
>>> Technical & Install Manager
>>> PIPE Networks Pty Ltd
>>> 
>>> PPC-1 is now live!
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>>> Australian Owned.
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>>> 
>>> Mobile :  +61 4 1074 7765
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>>> 
>>> 
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net
>>>> [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Brad Gould
>>>> Sent: Friday, 29 October 2010 12:47 PM
>>>> To: ausnog at ausnog.net
>>>> Subject: Re: [AusNOG] iPhone serial port
>>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On 27/10/2010 12:20, Chris Pollock wrote:
>>>>> The USB Sync cable won't do - there are only a few pins
>>>> connected.  You need a fully populated dock connector (or at
>>>> least, the correct partially populated one which aren't for
>>>> sale generally).
>>>>> 
>>>>> MAX-232 chips will do fine if you want to do it ghetto, you
>>>> just need the some capacitors to make them go.
>>>>> 
>>>>> The apple side of things is TTL, yes.
>>>>> --
>>>>> Chris Pollock
>>>>> Technical&  Install Manager
>>>>> PIPE Networks Pty Ltd
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> PPC-1 is now live!
>>>>> 6900 km, 20 Months, 2.56 Tbps, 12.5 kilovolts, $200 Million
>>>> and 100% Australian Owned.
>>>>> http://www.pipeinternational.com
>>>>> 
>>>>> Mobile :  +61 4 1074 7765
>>>>> Phone :  +61 7 3233 9813
>>>>> Fax     :  +61 7 3233 9885
>>>>> Web    :  www.pipenetworks.com
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>>> From: Sean K. Finn [mailto:sean.finn at ozservers.com.au]
>>>>>> Sent: Wednesday, 27 October 2010 11:43 AM
>>>>>> To: Chris Pollock; 'Andrew Fort'
>>>>>> Cc: 'ausnog at ausnog.net'
>>>>>> Subject: RE: [AusNOG] iPhone serial port
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I'm looking right at a munched up Rollover cable and a spare USB
>>>>>> synch cable and thinking that this afternoon I might try
>>>> to merge the
>>>>>> two.. :)
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> The RS232 ->  TTL converter looks like the hard bit, but I
>>>>>> *DO* have a whole bunch of MAX-232 Chips sitting here that
>>>> might do
>>>>>> the job.. (Jaycar, 5 bucks).
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Is the Apple side of things TTL ?
>>>>>> (not time to live, TTL basically means 5 volt Microchip
>>>>>> communications standard thing for the un initiated that does NOT
>>>>>> resemble serial).
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> S.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>>> From: Chris Pollock [mailto:Chris.Pollock at staff.pipenetworks.com]
>>>>>> Sent: Wednesday, 27 October 2010 11:40 AM
>>>>>> To: Sean K. Finn; Andrew Fort
>>>>>> Cc: ausnog at ausnog.net
>>>>>> Subject: RE: [AusNOG] iPhone serial port
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Actually they're not - the article is not entirely correct.
>>>>>> They have finished the design, but Apple won't give their approval
>>>>>> for them.  I actually looked at importing and distributing these
>>>>>> myself earlier in the year.  The difference there is that
>>>> they have
>>>>>> the Apple authentication chip in them to let them enable the UART,
>>>>>> and will have a proper app in the app store to do it.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> My version requires jailbreaking to get hardware access and the
>>>>>> appropriate OpenSSH/Minicom install.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Chris Pollock
>>>>>> Technical&  Install Manager
>>>>>> PIPE Networks Pty Ltd
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> PPC-1 is now live!
>>>>>> 6900 km, 20 Months, 2.56 Tbps, 12.5 kilovolts, $200
>>>> Million and 100%
>>>>>> Australian Owned.
>>>>>> http://www.pipeinternational.com
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Mobile :  +61 4 1074 7765
>>>>>> Phone :  +61 7 3233 9813
>>>>>> Fax     :  +61 7 3233 9885
>>>>>> Web    :  www.pipenetworks.com
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>>>> From: Sean K. Finn [mailto:sean.finn at ozservers.com.au]
>>>>>>> Sent: Wednesday, 27 October 2010 11:36 AM
>>>>>>> To: 'Andrew Fort'; Chris Pollock
>>>>>>> Cc: 'ausnog at ausnog.net'
>>>>>>> Subject: RE: [AusNOG] iPhone serial port
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> These are available commercially btw.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> http://www.slashgear.com/redpark-serial-cable-for-iphoneipod-t
>>>>>> ouchipad-outed-1173756/
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Or you could just munch up a USB Synch cable.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> S
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>>>> From: ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net
>>>>>>> [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Andrew Fort
>>>>>>> Sent: Wednesday, 27 October 2010 11:23 AM
>>>>>>> To: Chris Pollock
>>>>>>> Cc: ausnog at ausnog.net
>>>>>>> Subject: Re: [AusNOG] iPhone serial port
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 7:24 PM, Chris Pollock
>>>>>>> <Chris.Pollock at staff.pipenetworks.com>  wrote:
>>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>> I just finished something I thought some of you might be
>>>>>> interested
>>>>>>>> in; a usable serial port for an iPhone/iPad/iTouch.  All
>>>>>>> iDevices have
>>>>>>>> a serial port built into the dock connector, but it doesn't do
>>>>>>>> anything useful out of the box.  All you need is a dock
>>>>>>> connector, a
>>>>>>>> 470kOhm resistor, some wire, a soldering iron, a console
>>>>>>> cable and an RS232 ->  TTL converter.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Nice work!  I wonder if you'd get that through an airport
>>>> security
>>>>>>> checkpoint for a remote job, though? ;-)
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> -a
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