On Sun, Jun 7, 2015 at 2:18 AM, Jason Edelman <jason_edel...@hotmail.com> wrote: > I'm about to embark on a journey using pyusb and > really want to integrate it with a USB based fingerprint reader. > > This will be on a machine that all I can install is pyusb > (no additional drivers). Is there a recommendation on what > make/model/vendor of fingerprint reader should work? I > suppose the same question goes for other USB device types too.
In order to use pyusb, you need to have either libusb-1.0 or libusb-0.1 installed in your system. What is the OS? If it is Linux, does the system already have libusb-1.0 installed? And will the admin help you to install the proper udev rules to access the USB device as normal user. As for which finger print scanner will work, that depends on whether you have access the protocol or not. If you do not have access the communication protocol, it will be a challenge since you need to carry out reverse engineering work. This might help. It was written by Daniel Drake, the original author of libusb-1.0. http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/fprint/libfprint/ There is also the following. http://www.ullrich-online.cc/fingerprint/ -- Xiaofan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ pyusb-users mailing list pyusb-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pyusb-users
