There is another thread talking about USB support: https://groups.google.com/g/grpc-io/c/MZCVUShRMkM/m/y3T_fs8iAQAJ but I cannot answer there since my messages are automatically deleted (don't know why)
On Saturday, 13 February 2021 at 09:55:42 UTC+1 Frédéric Martinsons wrote: > Hello all, > > Some years ago we had the exact same use case where we have an android > application which drive an embedded devices (in USB Accessory Mode). The > only way to communicate with this device is through USB channel and we > wanted to use gRPC. > So we develop the USB transport channel in gRPC bask in 2018 (based on > gRPC v1.13.0). > The guy from our teams that made these patches had now leaved but I'll be > glad to submit a patch series if the USB support is still foreseen to be > support but I may not be able to answer all the questions about tricks that > came in this code. > > Do you want to receive a merge request ? > > Thanks for the good works gRPC guru. > > On Thursday, 8 February 2018 at 17:18:21 UTC+1 [email protected] wrote: > >> Mark, as Abhishek mentioned, it is quite useful in cases where a target >> device (usually embedded) has no networking. Thanks Vijay, I'll have a look >> at your suggestions. >> >> Regards >> /Robert >> >> 2018-02-07 22:31 GMT+01:00 'Vijay Pai' via grpc.io < >> [email protected]>: >> >>> As Mark mentioned, it's not on our roadmap, but if you wanted to put one >>> together, I can suggest >>> https://github.com/grpc/grpc/blob/master/doc/core/transport_explainer.md >>> for an idea of what transports need to do. If the goal is a simple >>> message-oriented transport without reference to complex flow control, I can >>> suggest using the in-process transport as a model for how to build a >>> transport, as it's only a few hundred lines of code and implements the >>> transport ops required to actually have working RPCs for its context; this >>> might make a lot of sense if your controller is memory-mapped. >>> Alternatively, if your controller is mapped as a file, a path forward might >>> be to make a new endpoint akin to the UDS endpoint. This would mean that >>> you'd be speaking HTTP/2 over your HID, but again it may be a fairly simple >>> integration. >>> >>> Good luck! >>> >>> - Vijay >>> >>> On Friday, February 2, 2018 at 8:51:23 PM UTC-8, Robert Bielik wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi all, >>>> >>>> Has there been any work on using USB HID as a gRPC transport ? >>>> >>>> Regards >>>> /Robert >>>> >>>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the >>> Google Groups "grpc.io" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this topic, visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/topic/grpc-io/rCOTPM65A7U/unsubscribe. >>> >> To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to >>> [email protected]. >> >> >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/grpc-io. >>> >> To view this discussion on the web visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/grpc-io/e25acae8-c505-47f6-a108-23d4d5d61a83%40googlegroups.com >>> >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/grpc-io/e25acae8-c505-47f6-a108-23d4d5d61a83%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >> >> >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "grpc.io" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/grpc-io/b3520456-c4cf-4473-8725-13592a281e02n%40googlegroups.com.
