On 22 Jun 2021 11:46:09 +0100 (BST), Theo declaimed the following:
It had enough latency that White's Metal Detectors came up with a custom interface for the Spectra V3i wireless headphones. Bluetooth ended up signalling finds long after the coil had passed beyond the actual target.
{Hmm, pity... White's has gone out of business, and I don't trust Garrett to make use of the IP acquisition to produce the fancy models}
I'd guess that was before Bluetooth LE?
It turns out that gtkpod is able, in a rather awkward way, to allow moving photos from an iPhone to a Pi. If one starts gtkpod and then plugs in the iPhone using a lightning-usb cable gtkpod will create a desktop icon representing the iPhone. Applications can open image or video files via the icon. Once opened, the file can be "saved as" to the Pi's filesystem. Simply dragging the file icons won't work, something gets screwed up and they can't be opened once moved. If they are opened before moving and saved by the opening program to the Pi's filesystem then the file integrity is preserved.
The sequence is start gtkpod plug in the iphone load iPod(s) using down arrow icon (3rd row from top, 2nd from left) A warning dialog box saying iPod directory structure not found click create directory structure Select the mount point and model from the drop-down menus
A long warning appears, but can be dismissed, and two iPhone icons appear just below the trash icon. They can be traversed like any storage device, but files can't be dragged, they have to be opened and saved to the Pi.
The iPhone isn't remembered in the list of possible devices, although the iPod seems to be. So, one has to go through this drill from the beginning on every attempt.
Certainly a nuisance, but doable.
Thanks for reading, I was surprised by the discovery.
bob prohaska
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