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mcuee edited this page May 12, 2023 · 24 revisions

Welcome to the HIDAPI wiki!

For cross platform communication with HID devices, libusb project recommends HIDAPI.

HIDAPI versioning

HIDAPI follows (at least tries to) the Semantic Versioning scheme. Even though we're still at version 0.x.y - we're doing our best to keep backward compatibility across releases.

Various related projects and repositories

libusb -- https://github.com/libusb/libusb/wiki

Python binding for HIDAPI cython-hidapi -- https://github.com/trezor/cython-hidapi

nodejs binding -- https://github.com/node-hid/node-hid.git

Rust binding -- https://github.com/ruabmbua/hidapi-rs

Java binding -- https://github.com/gary-rowe/hid4java

QT wrapper for HIDAPI -- https://github.com/simonmeaden/qhidapi

Ruby binding -- https://rubygems.org/gems/hidapi/

C++ wrapper -- https://github.com/sensics/HIDAPIpp

.NET binding -- https://github.com/badcel/HidApi.Net.git and https://github.com/alexgubanow/hidapiw

WIP Kotlin Native binding -- https://git.sr.ht/~z3ntu/kotlin-native-hidapi

hidapitester command line tool based on HIDAPI -- https://github.com/todbot/hidapitester

hidpytoy: GUI tool based on HIDAPI -- https://github.com/todbot/hidpytoy

Free Pascal bindings for HIDAPI -- https://github.com/dioannidis/HIDAPI.pas

FAQ

hidapi is not thread-safe in general. How to use hidapi in multithreaded application?

How to use hidapi with unrooted Android devices

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