Controlling an iPod from an Arduino

Forum 2005-2010 (read only) Hardware Interfacing
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Is the interface to an iPod general / public information?

Has anyone controlled an iPod using an Arduino?

Thanks,

Mike

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Dude, Google.

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Dude - I did.

There was a lot of bollocks with people pulling apart unofficial remotes and soldering, but little useful stuff.

Thanks for the informative reply, though.

Mike

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A search on google using the terms:
ipod control protocol

brings up these as the first two links

http://stud3.tuwien.ac.at/~e0026607/ipod_remote/ipod_ap.html

The protocol appears to be standard serial so with the information documented in those pages you should be able to get something going if you can't find any existing Arduino code.

I don't know if the ipod remote interface is 5v tolerant so you would probably want to use voltage level translator between the arduino and the ipod.

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Once you have the protocol down, sparkfun has PodBreakout - DEV-08295 - SparkFun Electronics which might be helpful.

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Thanks guys - much appreciated.

Standard 8N1 serial @ 19200 baud! Who'd have thought they'd go for that.

Regards,

Mike

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Have fun!

I hope you will post your code here when you get it going.