2 * Hidraw Userspace Example
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 #ifndef HIDIOCSFEATURE
22 #warning Please have your distro update the userspace kernel headers
23 #define HIDIOCSFEATURE(len) _IOC(_IOC_WRITE|_IOC_READ, 'H', 0x06, len)
24 #define HIDIOCGFEATURE(len) _IOC(_IOC_WRITE|_IOC_READ, 'H', 0x07, len)
28 #include <sys/ioctl.h>
29 #include <sys/types.h>
40 const char *bus_str(int bus);
42 int main(int argc, char **argv)
45 int i, res, desc_size = 0;
47 struct hidraw_report_descriptor rpt_desc;
48 struct hidraw_devinfo info;
49 char *device = "/dev/hidraw0";
54 /* Open the Device with non-blocking reads. In real life,
55 don't use a hard coded path; use libudev instead. */
56 fd = open(device, O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK);
59 perror("Unable to open device");
63 memset(&rpt_desc, 0x0, sizeof(rpt_desc));
64 memset(&info, 0x0, sizeof(info));
65 memset(buf, 0x0, sizeof(buf));
67 /* Get Report Descriptor Size */
68 res = ioctl(fd, HIDIOCGRDESCSIZE, &desc_size);
70 perror("HIDIOCGRDESCSIZE");
72 printf("Report Descriptor Size: %d\n", desc_size);
74 /* Get Report Descriptor */
75 rpt_desc.size = desc_size;
76 res = ioctl(fd, HIDIOCGRDESC, &rpt_desc);
78 perror("HIDIOCGRDESC");
80 printf("Report Descriptor:\n");
81 for (i = 0; i < rpt_desc.size; i++)
82 printf("%hhx ", rpt_desc.value[i]);
87 res = ioctl(fd, HIDIOCGRAWNAME(256), buf);
89 perror("HIDIOCGRAWNAME");
91 printf("Raw Name: %s\n", buf);
93 /* Get Physical Location */
94 res = ioctl(fd, HIDIOCGRAWPHYS(256), buf);
96 perror("HIDIOCGRAWPHYS");
98 printf("Raw Phys: %s\n", buf);
101 res = ioctl(fd, HIDIOCGRAWINFO, &info);
103 perror("HIDIOCGRAWINFO");
105 printf("Raw Info:\n");
106 printf("\tbustype: %d (%s)\n",
107 info.bustype, bus_str(info.bustype));
108 printf("\tvendor: 0x%04hx\n", info.vendor);
109 printf("\tproduct: 0x%04hx\n", info.product);
113 buf[0] = 0x9; /* Report Number */
117 res = ioctl(fd, HIDIOCSFEATURE(4), buf);
119 perror("HIDIOCSFEATURE");
121 printf("ioctl HIDIOCGFEATURE returned: %d\n", res);
124 buf[0] = 0x9; /* Report Number */
125 res = ioctl(fd, HIDIOCGFEATURE(256), buf);
127 perror("HIDIOCGFEATURE");
129 printf("ioctl HIDIOCGFEATURE returned: %d\n", res);
130 printf("Report data (not containing the report number):\n\t");
131 for (i = 0; i < res; i++)
132 printf("%hhx ", buf[i]);
136 /* Send a Report to the Device */
137 buf[0] = 0x1; /* Report Number */
139 res = write(fd, buf, 2);
141 printf("Error: %d\n", errno);
144 printf("write() wrote %d bytes\n", res);
147 /* Get a report from the device */
148 res = read(fd, buf, 16);
152 printf("read() read %d bytes:\n\t", res);
153 for (i = 0; i < res; i++)
154 printf("%hhx ", buf[i]);