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About this driver
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This driver allows you to upload / download and delete pictures from
Sitronix st2205 based picture frames. This are small, cheap picture
frames with a 1.1, 1.5, 1.8 or 2.4 inch display and a USB id of 1403:0001
st2205 based frames present themselves as a regular usb mass storage device,
but cannot be used as a normal disk! Communication with the device happens by
a special protocol which consist of reading / writing sectors of the disk at
certain magic offsets. This driver uses the special "usbdiskdirect" port
driver, which allows the direct sector access the camlib for these devices
needs.
About the st2205 access protocol
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The protocol for these devices was reverse engineered by Jeroen Domburg, who
has created a hack which allows directly displaying an image on them from the
PC (IOW using these picture frames as a second monitor). See the spritesmods
wiki: http://picframe.spritesserver.nl/ . Many thanks to Jeroen for this work,
on which this camlib is based!
The protocol basically allows raw access to the flash chip on the picture
frame, for example you need to do separate erase and program commands, and
as an erase block is larger then what you program in a single program command
you must make sure to always reprogram the entire range the single erase
command cleared (and read the entire range before clearing, so you can write
it back).
About the st2205 image compression
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See README.st2205-compression.
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