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Griffin PowerMate and Rhythmbox

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I was going through some drawers and stumbled across my good old Griffin PowerMate that I got back before I started using Linux. It controlled iTunes in Mac OS 10.1 and was great because I could change volume and pause music without having to change programs or anything. These days I use Rhythmbox in Linux to listen to music and theres not a plugin for it. Yet!

Rhythmbox supports plugins written in python, a guy has some skeleton python code for talking to the powermate, and that means something could work out!

I got the powermate working by compiling and loading the powermate module for 2.6 linux kernels (In 2.6.23 it’s in Device Drivers -> Input device support -> Miscellaneous devices -> Griffin PowerMate and Contour Jog support), adding a udev.d entry: