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By: Hunter Davis

Hunter Davis — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 23:50:09 +0000

Hey rfxcasey,

It’s actually very easy to get working now. Just download the new drivers from sourceforge and you should be great to go, no or absolutely limited coding necessary. Good luck!

By: rfxcasey

rfxcasey — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 14:04:32 +0000

How hard is it to actually get this working as a wireless terminal? I am not the worlds greatest coder or even half way decent at that but would love to get one of these working on my Linux box.

By: hunter

hunter — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 17:02:32 +0000

Hey Symon,

It’s in open document spreadsheet. You can open it with openoffice or abiword, google docs, etc. If you’re just wanting the driver, we’ve put a couple of implementations up on a sourceforge page http://sourceforge.net/projects/im-megpldrivers/ (see later article on subject). Good luck!

By: Symon

Symon — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 17:00:26 +0000

What format is your spreadsheet saved in? How do you open it? Text editor?

By: m0nk

m0nk — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 10:50:58 +0000

I just got my im-me in this weekend, I have written a bit of python code to interface with it, I plan to make a library so that others may play with it a bit more easily, if anyone has any more information on this device that could be helpful I would appreciate it.

By: DisizDream

DisizDream — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 12:46:30 +0000

Thanks a lot for your work Ben Ryves.
It will be very useful for me !

By: Ben Ryves

Ben Ryves — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 02:52:27 +0000

Thanks for the comment, Hunter (and thank you for this interesting site!) I tend to favour the permissive MIT as far as licences go, but I’m generally of the impression that if I’m releasing code, feel free to do whatever you want to with it.

I’ll continue to stick stuff in http://benryves.com/bin/im-me/ until I’ve written it up more formally. There’s a “Protocol.odt” document that I’ve stuck some information in that may be useful. There’s newer code that fixes a big bug in the way I handled incoming messages of more than one packet; I still can’t send messages of more than one packet, though. This may be due to my cack-handed attempt to use asynchronous file I/O, though.

By: hunter

hunter — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 00:29:38 +0000

elwig,
that’s definitely a fun project, can’t wait to see where it goes. Maybe a custom firmware is coming?

Ben,
Great work! What is the license on the code (gplv2?) Between your c# implementation and scott’s c implementation it sounds like we should have all alternate platforms covered Nice website too btw, especially like the new atmega tetris project!

By: Ben Ryves

Ben Ryves — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 12:50:37 +0000

elwing: That’s an interesting project, especially in relation to the TI watch! It’s a shame you can’t back up the original firmware (at least, I don’t think you can) but with the original protocol documented it should be relatively easy to rewrite something that works in a similar enough manner.

The sample code I posted won’t work properly with more than one IM-me device at a time as it uses a single, global friend list for everyone. If two people connect, then one of them adds a new friend, the other person would see that person in their Who’s Online list even though they never added them as a friend. In reality the sample would need to be modified to maintain friend lists for each contact. (This is only a problem with the sample, and not the library itself).

Oh, and I just realised that I’m still stuck in 2009. That’s what you get for uploading files at 3AM.