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janosrusiczki
janosrusiczki

Reputation: 1931

Detecting attached USB devices under Mac OSX

First of all a statement: I'm a newbie when it comes to programming for the Mac. However I have an assignment which requires USB communication with a device so I thought I'll start with something basic.

I took the code from here, built it and ran it from the Terminal. It starts up and writes:

Looking for devices matching vendor ID=1351 and product ID=8193.

Starting run loop.

However after this, if I plug in and out USB devices (I tried: iPod, GPS, mouse) nothing gets written on the screen, although as much as I understand there should be whenever I connect and disconnect a device.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks in advance.

Upvotes: 17

Views: 42559

Answers (2)

petergassner
petergassner

Reputation: 486

I found /Developer/Applications/Utilities/USB Prober to be of great use.

Upvotes: 10

Niko
Niko

Reputation: 2543

You can also use system_profiler SPUSBDataType on a terminal

Upvotes: 40

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