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rgerganov / footswitch

Command-line utility for PCsensor and Scythe foot switches
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Problem programming/using two pedals at the same time #82

Open zx485 opened 1 year ago

zx485 commented 1 year ago

At first, I like to thank you for your efforts and your great program. It made it possible to avoid Windows :-)

I have two pedals (lying around for some years) and now, I was trying to make them work on Kubuntu 22.04. So I connected both to an old USB-1.0 HUB which should be sufficient for that purpose.

Both are shown in lsusb, but I can only program one of them. The other one is kind of ignored. A partial solution was to connect them one after the other to an USB root port and program them one at a time. As a test, I programmed one of them with CTRL-W and the other with CTRL-T.

After reconnecting them to the USB HUB, they both work like programmed, but in footswitch -r only one shows as programmed:

[switch 1]: unconfigured
[switch 2]: l_ctrl+w
[switch 3]: unconfigured

The other one works as programmed, but does not show. Maybe its number is higher than three? Dunno, so thanks for your input.

Here is my lsusb output:

FootSwitchDevices.txt

rgerganov commented 1 year ago

This happens because both pedals have the same vid:pid which is 0c45:7403. Currently there is no way to differentiate between multiple devices with the same vid:pid, sorry.

zx485 commented 1 year ago

That's unfortunate. But I suppose/hope that I won't (have to) change the mappings often. Thank you for your quick reply and your overall effort.

P.S.: Wouldn't it be possible to append the bus:device ID to the vendor:product ID? This way, at least, the settings would be permanent unless the devices are connected to other ports. Or am I missing something?

(You don't have to answer if this would be too complex/breaks something/other.)