Hi, Chhavi!
I'll defer to other opinions on the matter, but I think pyusb might be too
low-level for your purposes, Chhavi. I've been able to interface with a HID
scale on a Raspberry Pi using the python 'hidapi' package. See
https://github.com/libretees/silverscale for an example project.
--contracode
On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 3:17 PM, Chhavi Goenka <cgoe...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I am trying to interface raspberry pi with a custom HID device via USB. I
> am using PYUSB for this. But once I run my program i get a timeout error.
>
> Here is my program:
>
> import os
> import sys
> import time
>
>
> import usb.core
> import usb.util
>
> packet_len = 64
>
> # packet request function
> def pack_request(*arguments):
> packet = [0x0] * packet_len
> i = 0
> for arg in arguments:
> packet[i] = arg
> i+=1
> return ''.join([chr(c) for c in packet])
>
> def show_result(bytes):
> sys.stdout.write("Result:")
> sys.stdout.write(''.join(['%d ' % abyte for abyte in bytes]))
>
>
> def main():
> dev = usb.core.find(idVendor = 0x04d8, idProduct = 0xf2a6)
>
> if dev is None:
> raise ValueError('Device not found')
>
> #dev.set_configuration()
>
> if dev.is_kernel_driver_active(0):
> reattach = True
> dev.detach_kernel_driver(0)
>
> cfg = dev.get_active_configuration()
> intf = cfg[(0,0)]
>
> ep = usb.util.find_descriptor(
> intf,
> # match the first OUT endpoint
> custom_match = \
> lambda e: \
> usb.util.endpoint_direction(e.bEndpointAddress) == \
> usb.util.ENDPOINT_OUT)
>
> assert ep is not None
>
> raw = pack_request(0x00, 0x81)
>
> dev.write(1, raw, 100)
>
> bytes = dev.read(0x81,packet_len, 10000)
> show_result(bytes)
>
> #print(bytes)
>
> if __name__ == '__main__':
> main()
>
>
> and Here is the error:
>
> pi@raspberrypi:~/Documents $ sudo python multispec_usbcode_jan21.py
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "multispec_usbcode_jan21.py", line 66, in <module>
> main()
> File "multispec_usbcode_jan21.py", line 58, in main
> dev.write(1, raw,100)
> File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/usb/core.py", line 878, in
> write
> self.__get_timeout(timeout)
> File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/usb/backend/libusb1.py",
> line 778, in intr_write
> timeout)
> File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/usb/backend/libusb1.py",
> line 856, in __write
> _check(retval)
> File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/usb/backend/libusb1.py",
> line 552, in _check
> raise USBError(_strerror(ret), ret, _libusb_errno[ret])
> usb.core.USBError: [Errno 110] Operation timed out
>
> Please let me know how to get around this?
>
> Thanks,
> Chhavi
>
>
>
>
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