Decoding the mir:ror comms protocol

As I wrote in a previous post, I have been trying to experimentally determine the control commands you can use with a violet mir:ror.

Hacking mir:ror on Linux

Some time ago, I bought a mir:ror from violet.net. The provided software for Mac and Linux is unfortunately very much beta-quality (which means decidedly flaky for those of you whose only experience of beta software was google mail). So I set out to see what could be done.