Installing and Using pywinusb.hid
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This project aims to be a simple USB/HID user application space (hence no system drivers needed) 100% python package (without C extensions). Initially targeting simple HID devices management.
The vision for this project is to be something similar to PySerial or PyParallel
but for USB/HID hardware enthusiasts.
All python code, using ctypes
Top level handling of HID events (usage events calling hook function handlers)
Depending on your application you might find these limitations
Windows only (so far...)
Maybe speed. I've had feedback by some users that speed is not a problem for high data throughput, but I think you might hit some Python limits if you are require any real time processing.
The most convenient way of installing is using easy_install or pip
(see below for pip install commands in Windows). I recommend you do
this once you are familiar with the library as you might otherwise
loose track of the example source files. However, you can always
come back and take a look at the examples or the source browsing the
github repository here.
| pip install commands: | For Python 2: pip install pywinusb, or py -2 -m pip install pywinusb |
For Python 3: py -3 -m pip install pywinusb |
(More on pip installation instructions here: https://docs.python.org/3/installing/) |
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| If using a source package (.zip) from PyPi, un-zip your file (or get the source |
from the main repository) and run the familiar setup.py install command
from the command line, as this is sufficient. Note that setuptools or distribute
(for python 3) are required.
So far only Windows OS it's supported.
View the ./examples directory for some (ok, few right now) scripts. These
show, for instance, how to use pywinusb.hid to handle events from HID class
devices usages events.
Latest code and some Wiki information can be found on the main project code page_.
.. _main project code page: https://github.com/rene-aguirre/pywinusb
More on this later...
Feel free to contact me! use the main code project page_, just tell what do
you think about the project or bring me anything you think might be cool to
consider.
Any participation it's appreciated, feel free to contribute more examples or applications or just a reference to your open source project that uses the library.
.. _main code project page: https://github.com/rene-aguirre/pywinusb