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Dear Hackers: Here's a personal challenge from me, Jason Chen. Make the iPhone work with the Nike+ Sport Kit. The current status now, when you plug the adapter into the iPhone, is a message that reads, sadly "This accessory is not supported by iPhone."
I can understand why Apple made the decision to make the Nike+ Sport Kit not work with the iPhone (providing a reason to buy an iPod Nano, preventing possible damage to a $399 device, differentiating products, whatever), but iPhone users still want this thing to work with their phones. After all, the phone's flash-based, relatively small and light (if you use an armband), and should work perfectly with the kit—in theory.
Is making the kit work with the iPhone possible? Can you access the 30-pin accessory port with the iPhone? If you can, is it possible to interface with this thing using the iPod nano as reference? Is this a pipe dream, or could this possibly be done?
If enough people get behind this idea, there could even be a bounty set up to reward the hacker(s) that enable this. Let's see where we can take this.
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I'm with ya. I'm not all into hacking my iPhone, but I'd give it a shot to make Nike+ work. (Can't help with programming or anything... Can barely use an iPhone.)
I would happily contribute to a bounty.
According to the Dev pages, you can access native apps from a web app, but not the ports, which is frustrating.
This means a crack app would be needed (or a new Nike+)
I would like to have the Radio accessory work with the iPhone. Do you think that is possible?
I get the same message when I plug my iPhone into the AI-NET adapter for my Alpine head unit in my car, but then it works anyway.
I think maybe thats a default message for anything it doesnt recognize. Doesnt necessarily mean they were actively trying to shut it out.
How about hacking the address book to have a business/personal split instead so I can load my company directory in for easy caller ID but still be able to find my friends and family? Or a way to edit the custom dictionary? :)
@Narual: You can use groups to do exactly what you want. And I'm not sure about the dictionary, but I know my iPhone has at least learned my username since it autosuggests it as I type. Based on that, I assume it learns new words as you type/correct them a few times.
I would also like for the Radio remote to be compatible with the iPhone. It's very handy in the car, because it's much easier to push an actual button while driving to pause music or switch tracks. I find it difficult and dangerous to do these basic tasks on my iPhone while driving.
As long as we're wishing here, I'd like to see a bounty to get a bluetooth GPS unit linked up with the iPhone to at least autoscroll the map based on your location.
another great example of what's wrong with the iphone.
hey, I'm totally all for this. I want the radio remote functionality built in, and the Nike+ technology to be compatible. I'd be down to contribute to a bounty if we can get this done.
Bonus* how cool would it be to control the tunes on your iphone from the new nike+ watch? Seriously, I'm so ready to help make this happen.
+1 (as long as it works on the Touch, too)
Is this challenge still active? What needs to be implemented as the whole software has to be rewritten. I didn't found out yet how the iPod Touch/ iPhone identifies the accessory and starts the appropriate application but I'm able to communicate with the Nike+ kit search for sensors and receive data. Maybe someone can point me to a source where the explain the structure of the Nike pods format? Anyone?
Is this challenge still going on? What has to be done to win it as the whole software needs re-implementation. So far I can connect to the Nike+, assign sensors and receive their data... So if someone can point me out a source how to interpret it, we should have the Nike+ working in no time :-)
Is this challenge still active?
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