Communication with USB HID devices?

Dar Scott dsc at swcp.com
Sat Jul 10 16:16:56 EDT 2004


On Jul 10, 2004, at 11:41 AM, Phil Davis wrote:

> Turns out I have a new contact at OSU Open Source Lab 
> <http://osuosl.org/>
> who has already been using the very device I'm working with. I'm told 
> he's
> developing a cross-platform wrapper (API) for the HID driver on each
> platform. I'll see what I can gain through him and tell the list if 
> there's
> any good news.

If he asks what might be useful to you, I would guess a driver 
interface that looks serial with ASCII messages, or mouse & keyboard.  
If you don't get those, you may need to create an external that 
accesses the API.  You probably will be best off with polling.

Dar Scott



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