2 * Hidraw Userspace Example
4 * Copyright (c) 2010 Alan Ott <alan@signal11.us>
5 * Copyright (c) 2010 Signal 11 Software
7 * The code may be used by anyone for any purpose,
8 * and can serve as a starting point for developing
9 * applications using hidraw.
13 #include <linux/types.h>
14 #include <linux/input.h>
15 #include <linux/hidraw.h>
18 * Ugly hack to work around failing compilation on systems that don't
19 * yet populate new version of hidraw.h to userspace.
21 * If you need this, please have your distro update the kernel headers.
23 #ifndef HIDIOCSFEATURE
24 #define HIDIOCSFEATURE(len) _IOC(_IOC_WRITE|_IOC_READ, 'H', 0x06, len)
25 #define HIDIOCGFEATURE(len) _IOC(_IOC_WRITE|_IOC_READ, 'H', 0x07, len)
29 #include <sys/ioctl.h>
30 #include <sys/types.h>
41 const char *bus_str(int bus);
43 int main(int argc, char **argv)
46 int i, res, desc_size = 0;
48 struct hidraw_report_descriptor rpt_desc;
49 struct hidraw_devinfo info;
51 /* Open the Device with non-blocking reads. In real life,
52 don't use a hard coded path; use libudev instead. */
53 fd = open("/dev/hidraw0", O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK);
56 perror("Unable to open device");
60 memset(&rpt_desc, 0x0, sizeof(rpt_desc));
61 memset(&info, 0x0, sizeof(info));
62 memset(buf, 0x0, sizeof(buf));
64 /* Get Report Descriptor Size */
65 res = ioctl(fd, HIDIOCGRDESCSIZE, &desc_size);
67 perror("HIDIOCGRDESCSIZE");
69 printf("Report Descriptor Size: %d\n", desc_size);
71 /* Get Report Descriptor */
72 rpt_desc.size = desc_size;
73 res = ioctl(fd, HIDIOCGRDESC, &rpt_desc);
75 perror("HIDIOCGRDESC");
77 printf("Report Descriptor:\n");
78 for (i = 0; i < rpt_desc.size; i++)
79 printf("%hhx ", rpt_desc.value[i]);
84 res = ioctl(fd, HIDIOCGRAWNAME(256), buf);
86 perror("HIDIOCGRAWNAME");
88 printf("Raw Name: %s\n", buf);
90 /* Get Physical Location */
91 res = ioctl(fd, HIDIOCGRAWPHYS(256), buf);
93 perror("HIDIOCGRAWPHYS");
95 printf("Raw Phys: %s\n", buf);
98 res = ioctl(fd, HIDIOCGRAWINFO, &info);
100 perror("HIDIOCGRAWINFO");
102 printf("Raw Info:\n");
103 printf("\tbustype: %d (%s)\n",
104 info.bustype, bus_str(info.bustype));
105 printf("\tvendor: 0x%04hx\n", info.vendor);
106 printf("\tproduct: 0x%04hx\n", info.product);
110 buf[0] = 0x9; /* Report Number */
114 res = ioctl(fd, HIDIOCSFEATURE(4), buf);
116 perror("HIDIOCSFEATURE");
118 printf("ioctl HIDIOCGFEATURE returned: %d\n", res);
121 buf[0] = 0x9; /* Report Number */
122 res = ioctl(fd, HIDIOCGFEATURE(256), buf);
124 perror("HIDIOCGFEATURE");
126 printf("ioctl HIDIOCGFEATURE returned: %d\n", res);
127 printf("Report data (not containing the report number):\n\t");
128 for (i = 0; i < res; i++)
129 printf("%hhx ", buf[i]);
133 /* Send a Report to the Device */
134 buf[0] = 0x1; /* Report Number */
136 res = write(fd, buf, 2);
138 printf("Error: %d\n", errno);
141 printf("write() wrote %d bytes\n", res);
144 /* Get a report from the device */
145 res = read(fd, buf, 16);
149 printf("read() read %d bytes:\n\t", res);
150 for (i = 0; i < res; i++)
151 printf("%hhx ", buf[i]);