usb

Can Silverlight access a .Net library that accesses a USB port?

We have a .Net library that accesses some custom hardware via a USB port. I've read that Silverlight contains a subset of the .Net runtime. So, my question is, would this subset be sufficient for the .Net library to function? ...

Driver for USB AVR JTAG-ISP device

I've got a programming device called USB AVR JTAG-ISP v. 1.2. Where can I find drivers and a good IDE for it? ...

I want to run a Linux based device application without hardware

Hi all, Is there any simulation environment that allows to run and test Linux based USB device application on host machine running Linux? Also same thing for Linux based USB host side applications where one can run and test Linux based host applications with physical/virtual USB devices. Regards, Mooni ...

USB function controller emulation in QEMU

Hi all, Does QEMU provide emulation for any target with USB device controller? Actually I am developing an embedded linux based device and was thinking about testing it on QEMU. BR, Mooni ...

How can I find out the device name and the OBEX interfaces from a USB device?

Hello! In a shell-script (or Perl) I need a subroutine that returns for all my USB devices, their device names, and, if available, their respective OBEX interfaces. I managed to get the device names and - with obexftp --usb - the obex-interfaces. How can I find out which device belongs to an OBEX interface number? ...

How to make a file update?

I have an SWF on a USB pen that I would like to check a web server each time that I open it to see if there is a more recent version of the SWF. If there is I want the SWF to download it. How does one goes about doing so? What can I use? Im absolutely clueless on this. ...

Is there a software/hardware combination that will let you control a at the hardware level via USB?

What I'm looking for is a device that does the following: One end has a male VGA and a USB cable. This end gets plugged into any pc or server device that has the correct outputs. The other end is just USB and gets plugged into a laptop cable. In between is a "something" that grabs the VGA output and can pass USB back to the target fro...

Using .NET classes to communicate with a USB HID

Are there any USB developers out there who use .NET? I know one way of communicating with USB HID device is creating wrappers to the Windows API's like CreateFile, WriteFile and ReadFile. But I am wondering does anyone know if you can use any of the .NET classes to do the same thing. I am certain that I will still have to use some of th...

Which is the best way to monitor USB port with flex or flash?

Hi, I want to write an application that monitor the USB port, and when something is connected should show the contents of the drive (image viewer) automatically. there is any way to do that with Flex/Flash directly? or i might program another application in C in order to monitor the USB port and then comunicate with the front-end appli...

Copying files to USB disc with Ruby

How can I copy files to a USB stick with Ruby (in Windows)? So far I have tried to identify the path of the USB stick, with the idea of using FileUtils to copy the files. However, I haven't been able to identify the path. Anyone know how to do this, or suggest an alternative approach. Thanks Edit: I've found a solution. Windows in...

USB Host and device side support in QEMU

Hi all, I've few questions about QEMU: 1) I read in QEMU's official documentation that in case of using host system devices "USB devices requiring real time streaming (i.e. USB Video Cameras) are not supported yet". Also there is no isochronous transfer based virtual USB device in QEMU. I want to know what is current status of Iso. sup...

How can I stop spotlight indexing slow archive media?

I copied the world onto a 16GB USB stick, and found Spotlight was busy indexing it for an hour or two. I tried naming folders in the privacy tab of Spotlight Preferences, and deleting .Spotlight-V100. This worked, I think, but was not remembered next time I used the stick. ...

Linking FriendlyNames from the Registry to drive letters for USB storage devices

I am writing an application that allows Syncing to USB storage devices and I would like to display the FriendlyName for the devices that can be found in the registry at HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\USBSTOR\ I am using GetLogicalDrives to get the list of available devices, GetDriveType to filter by DRIVE_REMOVABLE and GetVolumeInfo...

Send signals over USB using cocoa?

Just wondering, is there any "API" for sending signals through a USB cable to a device using Apple's cocoa programming language, so I could incorporate it with an app? is it much more complicated than a couple of commands, or do i need a library? I have no experience with external device communication so any help is welcomed! ...

What (software) usb sniffers are available for windows?

Are there any software drivers for windows 7 (64-bit) that can report the data transferred between some application software and a usb device? I have tried snoopy (http://sourceforge.net/projects/usbsnoop/) but I can't get it working. Possibly I would need to go down the route of installing an earlier version of windows. Any other sug...

Can you see programmatically how much amperage a USB device is requesting in windows?

I don't necessarily need to see real time plots or anything but as I understand it if you attach a USB device it gets like 100 mA then after some negotiation it will bump the power up to 300 mA or 500 mA so on and so forth till the device stops requesting. Does anyone know of anyway to see all the USB ports on a machine and what they ar...

Trouble reading Manufacturer String from HID Device using hid.dll API

I am writing a .NET application that can communicate with HID devices. I want to be able to retrieve and parse the Manufactures String from the device firmware. I know that in the hid.dll there is a method called HidD_GetManufacturerString. MSDN describes this method as follows: BOOLEAN HidD_GetManufacturerString( IN HANDLE Hid...

Identifying a device by retrieving its USB ID

I'd like my application to be able to detect a where a particular USB device has been mounted, and adapt accordingly. Ideally, I'd associate paths with a USB serial number, rather than with a given path. However, I cannot figure out a simple way to access these unique IDs from VB.Net code. Has anybody succeeded in doing this? ...

Bypassing Windows HW Installation Wizard

I am developing USB product on an AVR32 which is going well. We have used a USB library and have the USB Device working. The USB library came with an .inf file that we simply point the windows hardware installation wizard at and our USB Device which then appears as a COM port on the windows machine. I am now writing a VB application f...

Interfacing PIC Microcontroller with Java on PC using USB

HI! I want to interface PIC18F4550 with Java program and make it cross-platform initially. There are only one way I now Java has is javacomm. But i want it to be USB because not every laptop has RS232 port nowadays. Waht are the ways of interfacing PIC with Java you can suggest to make it really cross-platform and avoid writing driver fo...