October 2004 - Posts

Sunday, October 17, 2004 3:23 AM

XM Magic Hex Byte Codes

For those interested in playing around with talking to an XM Direct or Commander unit from you computer.  Here is the info you will need.

Here is the magic byte codes to get the XM Direct and Commander units into a PCR mode  Once this is done all original byte codes for the PCR work fine...

You send 3 commands to the commander or direct and then it will accept all original XMPCR commands.

They are the following, sent in this order:

5AA50003740001740D
5AA5000474020101740D
5AA50003740B00740D

If you want the info on how the original PCR protocol can be used as well, email me.
bitoholic [(a]) gmail [(dot)] com
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Thursday, October 14, 2004 8:47 PM

XM Hacked =]

Well, the article at news.com about my self and the new company I work for is up and news.com.  Talks about the new cable and software we made to talk to XM Direct and Commander units.  I wrote the Software in C#/.NET Framework.  Fun stuff

http://news.com.com/2100-1027_3-5410250.html?tag=save


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Friday, October 08, 2004 5:53 PM

VS.NET 2005 Intellisense Mouse Tips

It would be nice if MS added the exceptions that are thrown to the mouse tip.  One of the things I constantly do when I am wrting code is look up certain methods and see what they throw so I an write specific exception handling code.  Unless there is a shortcut or method of doing this already?
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Friday, October 08, 2004 3:49 PM

Ah.. The fun of reverse engineering

Well, I should be on news.com either today or monday for helping reverse engineer the new XM Direct and Commander protocol and making an SDK for .NET written in C#.  The team and company I work for is selling a kit for 45.00 for home users and car users that use computers in there car.  It basically helps replace the XM PCR that was discontinued a few weeks back after the Timetraxx and RIAA drama.  We will be working with TimeTraxx to make a new version supporting the XM Direct and Commander.

Fun stuff!
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