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Python
43 lines
1.9 KiB
Python
## Copyright (C) 2006 Kovid Goyal kovid@kovidgoyal.net
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## This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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## it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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## the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
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## (at your option) any later version.
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##
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## This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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## but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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## MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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## GNU General Public License for more details.
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##
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## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
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## with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
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## 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
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"""
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This package provides an interface to the SONY Reader PRS-500 over USB.
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The public interface of libprs500 is in L{libprs500.communicate}. To use it
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>>> from libprs500.communicate import PRS500Device
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>>> dev = PRS500Device()
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>>> dev.get_device_information()
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('Sony Reader', 'PRS-500/U', '1.0.00.21081', 'application/x-bbeb-book')
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There is also a script L{prs500} that provides a command-line interface to
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libprs500. See the script
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for more usage examples. A GUI is available via the command prs500-gui.
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The packet structure used by the SONY Reader USB protocol is defined
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in the module L{prstypes}. The communication logic
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is defined in the module L{communicate}.
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This package requires U{PyUSB<http://pyusb.berlios.de/>}.
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In order to use it as a non-root user on Linux, you should have
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the following rule in C{/etc/udev/rules.d/90-local.rules} ::
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BUS=="usb", SYSFS{idProduct}=="029b", SYSFS{idVendor}=="054c",
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MODE="660", GROUP="plugdev"
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You may have to adjust the GROUP and the location of the rules file to
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suit your distribution.
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"""
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__version__ = "0.3.0b2"
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__docformat__ = "epytext"
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__author__ = "Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>"
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