Is it possible? I would like to get a decent speaker dock for my Sansa that can do all the things that some iPod ones can do like charging, full remote control, larger display of song playing etc. I imagine it should be relatively easy to make some sort of convertor? Anyone seen anything like this? If not, anyone fancy taking it on as a mod? I don't have time right now with uni schedule.
wouldnt connecting it up just put it into "transfer mode" but then again there is a sansa dock hmmmm is there a firmware update ive missed?
I know its possible to have it do things like this via its bottom connector as you can buy some sansa cradles that have remote controls etc but nowhere near the selection you get for ipods. I just wonder if they use similar signals for doing the different things. I've had a good look online and have found some info but it seems the Apple players use a propriety serial control signal to control the player. I imagine this wouldn't be compatible with the sanse and so converting an ipod dock to the accommodate sansa would need some sort of translator instead of simply rewiring a connector.
Couldn't you just rip out the iPod connector, and replace it with the Sansa one? I would think that most have audio (L+R), and few ground pins and some data pins, so if you find a schematic for the wiring it should be too hard to replace the connector, and use all of the iPod dock's features. The wiring can't be too complicated as the iPod still has to "talk" to USB, so whilst the actual data may be weird, the wires shouldn't be.
From my initial investigations, it doesn't use USB when its on the dock (unless the dock has a USB passthrough to allow connection to PC). It has a detector or some sort that detects if its docked and enables output of audio (L+R as you say) but its the communication to the unit to skip track etc that's hard. Not sure it'd be just a rewire job, it may require much more.
