devices

iPad netservice with more devices

Heey I want to make a netservice where more ipads can connect to at the same time. I made a one 1 iPad open a NSNetservice and open the in- and outputstream. I started a netservice on iPad A, When connecting with iPad B to iPad A this just works fine. But when iPad C tries to connect the following happens: - Tries to resolve the NSN...

Linux: How to map a blockdevice to a USB-device?

Hi, if I plugin a USB memory stick, I see a new folder in /sys/bus/usb/devices ... thus a new USB-device. Also I see a new folder in /sys/block ... thus a new block-device. My question is: How can I get a waterproof mapping between those two devices? Means: If I get a new device in /sys/bus/usb/devices, how can I programatically (f.i...

Best practices for targetting a wide range of devices and screen sizes.

As you know android today is many versions many constructors, many screen sizes,... it's quite difficult for developers today to write programs that targets a big part of devices. What would be THE developer must-know practices for this ? tips for fluid layouts. "standards" for developing on any android version. ... Any other idea...

Capture devices - Mono c#

Hi, I'm looking for a way to list all capture devices (audio and video) with Mono under Linux: microphones, webcam, etc... but I couldn't find anything. Under windows, it's easy doing this with DirectShow, but couldn't find anything like this under Linux. Of course I could list those devices with a system command line, and parse the str...

Reading USB input stream on linux

Hello, I'm currently working on an embedded linux machine. Im trying to read a USB devices input stream but for some reason I dont have any such thing in my /dev directory. I would assume it would be something like /dev/ttyUSB01 or /dev/input/usb or something similar but it's not there. dmesg returns the following [ 195.863911] input: G...

Managing usb-serial converter device name

Hello everyone: I have a problem with USB-serial converters.I'm developing an app for a stand-alone surveillance station,connected to several peripherals trough serial port. My embedded PC has only one serial port, so i must use at least 2 usb-serial converter. When i plug one of them, ubuntu automatically generates the device name in...

DeviceIOControl() failing with error 50! HELP please.

Hi I'm very new to communication with Windows Device Drivers. :) I'm new to the forum too, I will be helpful if someone help me. A) I need to communicate with a third-party driver. I see that CreateFile() accept both the device name (such as \\.\DeviceName) and also I can call the full file name (such as \\.\C:\MyPath\DriverName.sys)....

PNPDeviceID Format

I'm working on developing a WMI query for my application. It needs to find the assigned virtual COM port for a given VID/PID. Using the WMI Code Creator I have found that... Namespace: root\CIMV2 Class: Win32_SerialPort Property: PNPDeviceID ...returns a value of USB\VID_10C4&PID_EA60\0001. This same value can be found by going to...