On Tue, 10 Oct 2006 14:23:06 -0700 ken dawson chia wu <dawsonwu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > My attempts to update the firmware as illustrated though a link > elsewhere in this thread resulted in v1.71 of the firmware being > installed (not v1.70 as illustrated on the linked page), and the > option to switch to UMS mode from MTP mode did not appear in this > process. Well, as I've replied on this thread, I did not try this yet, as MTP mode is OK for me now. Creating directories and such on the device would be nice, but I can do without since I do not use it that much. Maybe one day. > So, I'm curious how your use of gphoto2 manages to access the T30. > From my reading of the gphoto2 docs, it is about USB-linked cameras > pretty much exclusively; so am I missing something? Were you able to > access your T30 in MTP mode? If so, please explain how. >From what I've read the guys at gphoto have to deal with MTP as part of many digital cameras. So the by-product of this is having a MTP access for the T30. I'll describe now how I do it. It may look quite geeky, but it's really not that complicated, especially if you keep the commands in a file and cut & paste them when needed. One of these days if I ever have the time and the inclination, I'll do a simple lib interface and GUI, just for programming fun. For all the commands below to work, you'll have to do them as root. So here goes. I use Fedora 5, CCRMA. Plug the device using the provided USB cable. Put the device in music play mode, but with no song playing. A USB icon should then take the whole display space. First see if the device is seen by the system (and also get the ID of the device): # lsusb You should see some hexa stuff like "0x4102:0x1119". You'll use that to address your device at all times and worst, you have to tell gphoto that it has to behave like device "0x054c:0x004e". Who knows what device "0x054c:0x004e" truly is ? I surely don't. But for gphoto it's important. Remeber, keep these lines in a file at cut & paste them. The ID of your device will never change. So let's say that 'lsusb' gave you an ID of "0x4102:0x1119" (which is actually the ID for my T30). Now, if you want to list the files on the T30, you'd do: # gphoto2 --usbid "0x4102:0x1119=0x054c:0x004e" -L To list the folders you'd do: # gphoto2 --usbid "0x4102:0x1119=0x054c:0x004e" -l Based on the file list above, to retrieve a voice file you've recorded on the T30 you'd do, for example: # gphoto2 --usbid "0x4102:0x1119=0x054c:0x004e" -f /store_00010001/VOICE -p VOICE0807_000.MP3 (the above all in one line) To upload a file to the T30 you'd do: # gphoto2 --usbid "0x4102:0x1119=0x054c:0x004e" -f /store_00010001/Music/iRiver/ -u Unrockbar.ogg (also all on one line - sorry if there's any line wrap) So that's what I'm doing so far. Could very well be that gphoto does more, but I didn't checked it out. The 'problem' with root access could certainly be easily solved, but I'm lazy. Finally, if you got a bunch of files in a directory that you want to upload, do something like: #!/bin/bash for file in $(ls) do echo "Now uploading $file ..." gphoto2 --usbid "0x4102:0x1119=0x054c:0x004e" -f /store_00010001/Music/iRiver/ -u $file done The interface is easily scriptable. Hope this helps. Don't hesitate if you have questions. Cheers, Al
