I'm starting a page to compile questions here:
http://mixxx.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Hercules_Questions
Some of them may be stupid questions, so if anyone already knows the answers
feel free to pencil them in...
When we've compiled a good list we can send it off to Hercules and see what
they say.
On Dec 14, 2007 8:27 AM, Adam Davison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> No time to write a proper e-mail about this now but essentially they
> said they couldn't talk directly because they're too busy but if we
> compile a list of questions for them they'll pass them on to the
> Hercules driver dev team.
>
> So if you can compile a list of relatively specific questions, not
> like "how does your hardware work?" and so on... then I'll pass it on.
>
> Adam
>
> On 14/12/2007, Garth Dahlstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hey, that's awesome that you got something happening. :D
> >
> > I forwarded your progress on to Melanie who still has Alberts MP3
> Control
> > AFAIK...
> >
> > I tried going through the hercules tech support site and opening a help
> > ticket to get some specs / code for their stuff, I got no response at
> all...
> > I think Adam was chasing that stuff for a while and also got nowhere.
> > Hopefully if enough people bug them they will eventually relent and give
> us
> > a clue about their hardware.
> >
> > -G
> >
> >
> > On Dec 14, 2007 7:35 AM, Robin Sheat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > > I've spent the past week hacking on the Herc, trying to get more than
> one
> > LED
> > > to light (using the HID interface, rather than libdjconsole, still
> can't
> > make
> > > that work). Tonight I finally made real progress!
> > >
> > > With a kernel patch (yeah, I know), I can now get multiple LEDs to
> light.
> > I
> > > still have no way to tell which LED is addressed by which number, and
> > > currently my patch will break every other HID device you might plug in
> > with
> > > LEDs, but it's a start, and those are both solvable problems.
> > >
> > > If anyone's interested in the technical details, it seems that the HID
> > part of
> > > the kernel ignores any LEDs that it doesn't understand the code number
> > for.
> > > And the herc reports about 2-dozen LEDs (I think more than it actually
> > has),
> > > only one of which the kernel knows about. So I changed the kernel's
> > mapping
> > > to map the range the herc reports to LED IDs the kernel does know
> about.
> > >
> > > Also, just to see if it would get anywhere, I asked the company that
> makes
> > it
> > > if they would be willing to reveal the specifications. The first
> response
> > was
> > > that they were 'classified'. So I responded with a slightly snarky
> email
> > > about how they shouldn't be, and got a reply that my request was
> forwarded
> > to
> > > their developers. I don't know if anything will come of it, but
> maybe...
> > >
> > > It's not that the specs are particularly complex, just that there is
> > something
> > > weird with it, or my understanding of it, that means that I can't make
> a
> > > libusb driver work.
> > >
> > > So, if anyone has a hercules DJ control MP3, and is either running the
> > latest
> > > Ubuntu (so, has a kernel that matches mine) or is willing to do a
> little
> > bit
> > > of kernel hacking, I may have a solution soon :)
> > >
> > > --
> > > Robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> JabberID: <
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > >
> > > Hostes alienigeni me abduxerunt. Qui annus est?
> > >
> > > PGP Key 0xA99CEB6D = 5957 6D23 8B16 EFAB FEF8 7175 14D3 6485 A99C
> EB6D
> > >
> > >
> >
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