[AusNOG] iPhone serial port

[Brad Gould]

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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.
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> Chris Pollock
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>> -----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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