About ===== A socket daemon to multiplex connections from and to iOS devices. Background ========== usbmuxd stands for "USB multiplexing daemon". This daemon is in charge of multiplexing connections over USB to an iOS device. To users, it means you can sync your music, contacts, photos, etc. over USB. To developers, it means you can connect to any listening localhost socket on the device. usbmuxd is not used for tethering data transfer which uses a dedicated USB interface as a virtual network device. Multiple connections to different TCP ports can happen in parallel. The higher-level layers are handled by libimobiledevice. When usbmuxd is running (normally started, or stopped as a result of "udev" auto-insertion messages or by systemd) it provides a socket interface in "/var/run/usbmuxd" that is designed to be compatible with the socket interface that is provided on Mac OS X. You should also create a "usbmux" user that has access to USB devices on your system. Alternatively, you can pass a different username using the -U argument. Due to iOS 7 the daemon now also manages pairing records with iOS devices and the host in "/var/lib/lockdown" (Linux) or "/var/db/lockdown" (Mac OS X). Ensure proper permissions are setup for the daemon to access the directory. Requirements ============ Development Packages of: libimobiledevice libplist libusb Software: make autoheader automake autoconf libtool pkg-config gcc udev (Linux only) Optional: systemd (Linux only) Installation ============ To compile run: ./autogen.sh make sudo make install The daemon is automatically started by udev or systemd depending on what you have configured it on hotplug of an iOS device and exits if the last device was unplugged. For debugging purposes it is helpful to start usbmuxd using the foreground '-f' argument and enable verbose mode '-v' to get suitable logs. Who/What/Where? =============== Home: http://www.libimobiledevice.org/ Code: git clone http://git.libimobiledevice.org/usbmuxd.git Code (Mirror): git clone https://github.com/libimobiledevice/usbmuxd.git Tickets: http://github.com/libimobiledevice/usbmuxd/issues Mailing List: http://lists.libimobiledevice.org/mailman/listinfo/libimobiledevice-devel IRC: irc://irc.freenode.net#libimobiledevice Twitter: https://twitter.com/libimobiledev Credits ======= The first usbmuxd daemon implementation was authored by Hector Martin. Apple, iPhone, iPod, and iPod Touch are trademarks of Apple Inc. libimobiledevice is an independent software library and has not been authorized, sponsored, or otherwise approved by Apple Inc. README Updated on: 2015-01-28