[PD] Reading/writing a HID device current best practice?

[Dan Wilcox]

This is also my preferred approach, but maybe not for those who want to do *everything* in Pd and/or need to write to devices.

joyosc

https://github.com/danomatika/joyosc <https://github.com/danomatika/joyosc>

> joystick & game controller hid device event to Open Sound Control daemon and associated tools

Cross-platform using SDL2.

> On Sep 6, 2022, at 7:07 PM, pd-list-request at lists.iem.at wrote:
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> I know this isn't the desired answer, but my strategy (a few years ago, on
> Raspberry Pi, haven't tried HID since then) was to launch a python script
> to listen for HID messages, then route them via UDP into a local port on
> which Pd would listen and consume the messages. I don't recall if I had to
> do some message unpacking in the python script or if I could just route the
> raw data and unpack everything in Pd.

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Dan Wilcox
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