3 Barry is a GPL C++ library to interface with USB BlackBerry handheld devices
4 on Linux. This is one of Net Direct Inc.'s (http://www.netdirect.ca/)
7 The SourceForge project page can be found at:
8 http://sourceforge.net/projects/barry/
10 Barry is currently in early development, but is reaching stages of usefulness.
11 For example, it is possible to retrieve Address Book contact data, and export
12 it in text or LDAP LDIF format.
18 libusb, devel branch http://libusb.sourceforge.net/
20 Check out the V1_0_DEVEL tag/branch from CVS.
22 Barry uses the asynchronous library calls, which is why the development
23 branch is used. The libusb devel branch is well along in its development
24 cycle, so don't be afraid to play with it.
26 This version of Barry has been tested using the 2005/11/25 libusb CVS tree.
30 - Edit Makefile.conf to point to the proper location for libusb
31 headers and library files
32 - Enter the src/ directory and type 'make'
33 - If you want to generate doxygen documentation, run 'doxygen'
34 as well. The resulting files will be in doc/doxygen/html/
35 This has been tested with Doxygen 1.4.5
37 This will give you a command line tool called 'btool'. Use the -h
38 switch for help on its command line options. Some good ones to start with
39 are -l to list the devices found, and -t to list the Database Database.
44 No BlackBerry-related protocol project would be complete without referencing
45 the fine documentation from the Cassis project, which tackled the earlier
46 serial protocol. You can find this documentation at:
48 http://off.net/cassis/protocol-description.html
50 There were some major and minor differences found between the serial
51 protocol and the USB protocol. Some of the new handheld devices use new
52 database record access commands, and in these cases the record format changes.
53 Barry tries to handle both. See the code for more detailed information.
55 Further documentation on the USB protocol is planned. Stay tuned.
58 Playing with the protocol:
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60 The USB captures were performed on a Windows XP Pro system running UsbSnoop
61 from http://benoit.papillault.free.fr/usbsnoop/index.php
63 You can use the convo.awk and translate.cc tools to turn these very verbose
64 logs into something more manageable. Other than the normal USB control
65 commands at the beginning of each conversation, it was found that only
66 USB Bulk Transfers were used.
68 The btool utility is at the stage where it can be used instead of UsbSnoop,
69 for database operations. You can use the -v switch to turn on data packet
70 dumping, which will display the sent and received packets in canonical hex
71 format as btool talks to the device. You can use this in combination with
72 the -d switch to capture new database records to reverse engineer.
74 If you reverse engineer some of the unimplemented packet formats, please
75 send patches and/or documentation to the mailing list!
78 Some notes on code architecture:
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82 Lowest level is the libusb software, currently using the DEVEL branch
85 usbwrap.{h,cc} - C++ wrapper for libusb
86 data.{h,cc} - C++ data class for buffer management
87 and hex log file input and output
88 connect.cc - low level USB test program, capable of
89 using data file scripts to talk to a
90 device via bulk read/write
91 debug.h - general debugging output support
95 error.{h,cc} - common exception classes for Barry layer
96 probe.{h,cc} - USB probe class to find Blackberry devices
97 protocol.{h,cc} - structs and defines for packets seen on wire
98 common.{h,cc} - general API and utilities
99 socket.{h,cc} - socket class encapsulating the Blackberry
101 record.{h,cc} - programmer-friendly record classes
102 parser.{h,cc} - C++ virtual wrappers to connect record
103 and controller in a generic way
104 controller.{h,cc} - high level API class
105 btool.cc - command line testing utility
109 convo.awk - script to convert UsbSnoop log files into
110 trimmed-down request/response conversations
111 translate.cc - translate UsbSnoop log file data into