Reading USB ports

MadMax · Post by **MadMax** » Fri Mar 05, 2004 12:19 am

Just wonder if this would be possible. I wonder if I could read the data in my USB memory with PB.

Post by **Fred** » Fri Mar 05, 2004 11:05 am

Yes, I had done that a few month ago.. I will try to find it again and post the sources here.

Num3 · Post by **Num3** » Fri Mar 05, 2004 6:08 pm

Fred....

When will you add USB functionality to PB !?

Seldon · Post by **Seldon** » Sun Mar 07, 2004 9:42 am

@Fred: that would be great ! Thanks !

MadMax · Post by **MadMax** » Sun Mar 07, 2004 3:40 pm

@ wonderful

dagcrack · Post by **dagcrack** » Mon Mar 08, 2004 2:24 am

ORGASMIC!! USB!! USB!! USB!! USB!!

dmoc · Post by **dmoc** » Thu Jun 10, 2004 9:33 pm

Hey Fred, any sign of those usb files?

Were you using libusb by any chance?

geoff · Post by **geoff** » Wed Oct 20, 2004 3:06 pm

Accessing RS232 devices is easy using Marc Vitry's excellent MVCOM lib
I guess we need a USB equivalent.
Any volunteers?

Or is there an easy to use alternative?

SimpleMind · Post by **SimpleMind** » Mon Aug 15, 2005 9:55 pm

Is there already an alternative?

Intrigued · Post by **Intrigued** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 3:51 am

I agree... this would be nice to have access to.

*thumbs up*

dagcrack · Post by **dagcrack** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 10:19 am

1 year later.. nothing to see :roll:

dmoc · Post by **dmoc** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 11:15 am

For those interested check out libusb. The problem is really documentation for the device you are trying to communicate with, usually not released to the public. I have not looked into this for sometime but do recall something recently about newer libusb utils being able to capture and replay usb communication, in which case you maybe don't need complete documentation to use some of the functionality of devices. Go Google.

SimpleMind · Post by **SimpleMind** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 6:27 pm

Take a look at: http://www.lvr.com/hidpage.htm . There are examples also in VB6, which you can easily translate into PB. The problem is that you always need the right HID driver from the chip/device manufacturer. The Microsoft DDK is not free afvailable.

Regards,

Marcel

SimpleMind · Post by **SimpleMind** » Thu Aug 25, 2005 10:11 pm

SimpleMind wrote:Take a look at: http://www.lvr.com/hidpage.htm . There are examples also in VB6, which you can easily translate into PB. The problem is that you always need the right HID driver from the chip/device manufacturer. The Microsoft DDK is not free afvailable.

Regards,

Marcel

New information on the DDK Microsoft Driver Development kit. The DDK self is free but you have to pay $25 handling/shipping. It is a bargain for what you get. I'mention some:

Microsoft (R) 32-bit C/C++ Optimizing Compiler Version 13.10.4035 for 80x86

Microsoft (R) Library Manager Version 7.10.4035

Microsoft (R) Incremental Linker Version 7.10.4035

Debugger

Builder, macrocompiler, etc, etc.

In other words: In the DDK they put a complete C/C++ compiler and other stuff to build the driver examples. Microsoft Visual C++® is no longer required to be installed.
The problem is that you don't have an IDE! There is an example that builds a normal exe and I think you can build other stuff with it albeit in C/C++.

dmoc · Post by **dmoc** » Fri May 12, 2006 12:46 pm

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