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in reply to RollForInitiative

lemmy - Link to source

IsoKiero

Over the past few posts I’ve set up a Windows VM with USB passthrough, and attempted to reverse-engineer the official drivers, As I was doing that, I also thought I’d message the vendor and ask them if they could share any specifications or docs regarding their protocol. To my surprise, Nanoleaf tech support responded to me within 4 hours, with a full description of the protocol that’s used both by the Desk Dock as well as their RGB strips.
in reply to RollForInitiative

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killeronthecorner

To my surprise, Nanoleaf tech support responded to me within 4 hours, with a full description of the protocol that’s used both by the Desk Dock as well as their RGB strips. The docs mostly confirmed what I had already discovered independently, but there were a couple of other minor features as well (like power and brightness management) that I did not know about, which was helpful.


Combo of investigating and a foot up from the manufacturer.

When I've done this in the past for game controllers I've not received such an emphatic response (other than when I was working for the vendor).

Did get some via FOI for a few other products though.

in reply to killeronthecorner

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comfy

Yeah, props to the Nanoleaf team for helping the author out. Win-win. The author says at the end that they intend on sharing it around more once it has more polish, so I hope they upstream it properly and demonstrate to Nanoleaf that helping out volunteers helps their product reach more customers. (I know it's iffy to suggest it's ok to neglect Linux and let us sort it out ourselves, but if we get open-source drivers in the process with the help of the company, I think that's a net win)
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in reply to Tenderizer78

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Saturnalia

When I installed Ubuntu on an HP laptop recently, I got a message that I didn't have the drivers for my internal Intel wireless chip. It was at this point that I realized the laptop also didn't have an Ethernet port. The installer told me to put the drivers on a flashdrive. Thankfully the error spelled out enough for me to find the drivers online. There were a few different versions and I put them all on the stick.

Bluetooth didn't work, but I realized that was fixed by just enabling the service with systemctl.

in reply to voodooattack

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Cricket [he/him]

If you're not already aware of it (I wasn't until recently) there's a search engine that "prioritizes non-corporate content": marginalia-search.com/

I couldn't find this particular article or blog there, I'm not sure why. Perhaps their robots.txt blocks it, which would be unfortunate. It turns up other similar content though.

Making sure you're not a bot!

Marginalia Search is a small independent do-it-yourself search engine for surprising but content-rich websites that never ask you to accept cookies or subscribe to newsletters.
Marginalia Search
in reply to learnbyexample

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utopiah

Shit... kind of makes me want to learn Rust now!

Anyway, wonderful write up. No BS, both shortcuts if you just want to the code and in depth links e.g. beyondlogic.org/usbnutshell/us… all written with a fun tone. Plenty of actually useful content showing us all that sure, it is not trivial to write a (USB) driver but it is also probably not as hard as we imagine. Particularly enjoyed the :

  • userspace driver, namely being able to tinker locally without feel the pressure to push back the work to Linux the kernel itself
  • libusb and other drivers, namely that there is a myriad of points to start from already, not just writing reverse engineering bits in memory to the new device and hoping it'll work

USB in a NutShell - Chapter 1 - Introduction

Introduces the Universal Serial Bus covering the various chapters of the spec and what is required to be read.
www.beyondlogic.org
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