Hi all,
The following was just recently posted to the usbvisor mailing list about
how to get a USB HandSpring Visor to automatically hotsync when the sync
button was pressed on the cradle.
It takes advantage of the devfs interface.
Thought people here might find it useful.
greg k-h
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I've done something interesting that the list might be interested in.
People want to be able to press the hotsync button and have it sync
automatically (like in windoze?). Using devfs and devfsd (2.3.99pre*)
kernel, devfs registers devices in the /dev/usb/tty directory for the
usb-serial module when the hotsync button is pressed. devfsd will let
you run an arbitrary command when a new /dev entry is registered. I
have a perl script to do my syncing for me:
#!/bin/perl -w
$|=1;
$installfile = '/home/mcelrath/visor/install.list';
chomp(@replace = `cat $installfile`);
$dir = $ENV{PWD};
#chdir '/home/mcelrath/visor/ShowTimes/Script/unix/';
#print eval `cat /home/mcelrath/visor/ShowTimes/Script/unix/getdata.pl`;
chdir $dir;
$installcmd = '-i ' . join(" ", @replace);
open LOG, ">/tmp/visor-sync.log";
print LOG `pilot-xfer -p /dev/usb/tty/1 $installcmd -s
/home/mcelrath/visor/backup 2>&1`;
close LOG
#print `memos -q -d /home/mcelrath/visor/memos`;
And I can get devfsd to run it for me when I press the hotsync button by
adding this line to /etc/devfsd.conf:
REGISTER usb/tty/1 EXECUTE sudo -u mcelrath ~mcelrath/bin/visor-sync
With these two things I can now hotsync simply by pressing the hotsync
button.
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