New USB IDs for Kindle Fire HD 8.9?

[elvenic]

I've got today a brand new Kindle Fire HD 8.9, Calibre does not recognize it. In the "Debug Device Detection" window it shows :

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calibre 0.9.11 isfrozen: True is64bit: True
Linux-3.7.1-gentoo-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i5-3570K_CPU_@_3.40GHz-with-gentoo-2.2 Linux ('64bit', 'ELF')
('Linux', '3.7.1-gentoo', '#1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Dec 24 17:47:33 PST 2012')
Python 2.7.3
Linux: ('Gentoo Base System', '2.2', '')
USB devices on system:
[['0x1949', '0x8', '0x216', u'Amazon', u'Kindle', u'B0C9100425020HB3'],
['0x46d', '0xc52b', '0x1201', u'Logitech', u'USB Receiver', u''],
['0x46d', '0x81d', '0x10', u'', u'', u'B05DA890'],
['0x174c', '0x5106', '0x1', u'ASMedia', u'AS2105', u'5XW12KMY']]

No disabled plugins
Looking for devices of type: MTP_DEVICE
No known MTP devices connected to system

Looking for devices...

Devices possibly connected: None

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Note that product ID for the Kindle is 0x8 - I found in this forums message where Kovid mentions that Kindle Fire product IDs known to him are 0x6 and 0x7 (and 0xa after he updated Calibre as a result of the message), see https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...11&postcount=2

Is this a new version of Kindle Fire HD 8.9 with new USB IDs?

If this is so, would it be possible to update Calibre to include these IDs into a list of known Kindle Fire HD devices?

[elvenic]

I tried to use USER_DEFINED device plugin in Calibre, by entering USB IDs into configuration dialog of the user defined device plugin, and disabling Kindle Fire plugin; after restart, Calibre still did not recognize the device, but the "Debug device detection" now says:

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calibre 0.9.11 isfrozen: True is64bit: True
Linux-3.7.1-gentoo-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i5-3570K_CPU_@_3.40GHz-with-gentoo-2.2 Linux ('64bit', 'ELF')
('Linux', '3.7.1-gentoo', '#1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Dec 24 17:47:33 PST 2012')
Python 2.7.3
Linux: ('Gentoo Base System', '2.2', '')
USB devices on system:
[['0x1949', '0x8', '0x216', u'Amazon', u'Kindle', u'B0C9100425020HB3'],
['0x46d', '0xc52b', '0x1201', u'Logitech', u'USB Receiver', u''],
['0x46d', '0x81d', '0x10', u'', u'', u'B05DA890'],
['0x174c', '0x5106', '0x1', u'ASMedia', u'AS2105', u'5XW12KMY']]

Disabled plugins: KINDLE_FIRE

Looking for devices of type: MTP_DEVICE
No known MTP devices connected to system

Looking for devices...
USBDevice(busnum=3, devnum=10, vendor_id=0x1949, product_id=0x0008, bcd=0x0216, manufacturer=Amazon, product=Kindle, serial=B0C9100425020HB3)
Detected possible device USER_DEFINED

Devices possibly connected: User Defined USB driver,
Trying to open User Defined USB driver ... failed
Opening of the following devices failed
<calibre.devices.user_defined.driver.USER_DEFINE D object at 0x1916610>
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "site-packages/calibre/devices/__init__.py", line 157, in debug
File "site-packages/calibre/devices/usbms/device.py", line 862, in open
File "site-packages/calibre/devices/usbms/device.py", line 617, in open_linux
DeviceError: Unable to detect the USER_DEFINED disk drive. Either the device has already been ejected, or your kernel is exporting a deprecated version of SYSFS.

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Is this because USER_DEFINED plugin can't work with device that uses MTP protocol even if it knows it's USB IDs?

[elvenic]

OK, following patch fixes this: (just add the line with new ID to the array initialization). After rebuild/install, Calibre recognizes my Kindle Fire HD 8.9

*** calibre/src/calibre/devices/mtp/unix/devices.c.old       2012-12-27 15:39:46.218207350 -0800
--- calibre/src/calibre/devices/mtp/unix/devices.c   2012-12-27 15:36:17.480203715 -0800
***************
*** 13,18 ****
--- 13,19 ----
  
      // Amazon Kindle Fire HD
      , { "Amazon", 0x1949, "Fire HD", 0x0007, DEVICE_FLAGS_ANDROID_BUGS}
+     , { "Amazon", 0x1949, "Fire HD", 0x0008, DEVICE_FLAGS_ANDROID_BUGS}
      , { "Amazon", 0x1949, "Fire HD", 0x000a, DEVICE_FLAGS_ANDROID_BUGS}
  
      // Nexus 10

[kovidgoyal]

Thanks, will be in next release.

[elvenic]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

Thanks, will be in next release.

Yes, thank you, Kovid, Calibre version 0.9.12 on Gentoo Linux recognizes my KIndle Fire HD 8.9 when the device is connected via USB cable.