Rockbox

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  • Category Rbutil
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Attached to Project: Rockbox
Opened by Domonoky - 2008-10-12
Last edited by bluebrother - 2017-04-29

FS#9485 - rbutil- reworked autodetection, now presents a list of detected devices

This patch lets rbutil search for all Devices when autodetecting, and presents a list with the found devices to the user for selection.

The patch is not completely ready, it needs a bit more polishing.

Closed by  bluebrother
2017-04-29 14:13
Reason for closing:  Out of Date
Additional comments about closing:   Warning: Undefined array key "typography" in /home/rockbox/flyspray/plugins/dokuwiki/inc/parserutils.php on line 371 Warning: Undefined array key "camelcase" in /home/rockbox/flyspray/plugins/dokuwiki/inc/parserutils.php on line 407

Detection has been reworked with b943c59f3575ee357b66cc316baec95ffcfd5f10

New attempt.

The code is still very early, has bugs and needs improvements.
Screenshot: http://imagebin.ca/view/MRSixYUb.html

New Ideas for autodetection, written down here for later use.

All Devices have USB-IDs, even if there are dublicates.
So we can start with the list of connected usb-ids and try to map Modelnames and mountpoints to them.

We use our list of Targets with their USB-IDs to match them. Because of the dublicate usb ids, we can get more then one modelname per USB-ID.
We then try to query the mountpoints for all usb-ids, where we have at least one modelname. This results in a mountpoint per USB-ID when its successfull.
We can then check the list and if we have only complete Targets in the list, ie only entrys with one modelname and a mountpoint (and usb-ids without anything) we can stop here.

If we have incomplete entrys we have to use other methods. We can use ipodpatcher, sansapatcher, and checking for specific files/folders at the mountpoint to find out which target exactly this is. We can use the info we already know to choose the best method.
If we miss mountpoints, we could scan different possible mountpoints to find indications that this is the specifc target /group of possible targets. This might introduce multiple mountpoints per entry :-/

If we tried all we can, and we have still targets which miss info, we present them also, but with a warning, a help text and maybe a way to choose manually.

For all Targets we successfully found, we also should scan for rockbox-info.txt and store the installed version etc, so it also can be presented to the user.
I Imagine a "Scanning System" Splash at startup, then a selection/confirmation box to choose the found target(s). Also in the config dialog the target selection will be removed/hidden, and only the scan button visible.

Lets hope i (or someone else) finds time to implement it.

New attempt:
This code is still unfinished, and the GUI is very ugly. Detection seems to work already pretty good.

There is also a way to test the Detection easily on many different targets:
- place a "usb-ids.txt" file the usb-ids of the tragets to simulate in the directory where rbutil.exe is.
- place a "mountpoints.txt" file with the paths to the simulated mountpoints in the directory where rbutil.exe is.

You can find a zip with many prepared fake mountpoints here: http://www.retrospektiwe.de/AutodetectionTest.zip Corresponding usb-id lists and mountpoint lists are attached.

If someone is brave enough to create more test dirs/ images, please share.

new patch, small improvements. Still not ready, and GUI is still very ugly.

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