[AusNOG] iPhone serial port

[Chris Pollock]

> http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/10/28/1613227/The-iPhone
-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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> -----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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