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Harshil
Harshil

Reputation: 473

Connect to hardware device attached with USB cross platform

I have hardware a plotter machine. This device doesn't have any kind of driver. When I attached USB cable of this hardware to my machine(windows) it comes under "unspecified device" in control panel -> printers and devices. I want to build an application which can connect to this hardware (plotter without driver) connected via USB. I have checked with usb4java but it din't work. Can you guys please help me. ?

My application must be able to run in any platform, so in any machine I can just attached usb cable and my application must be able to detect the hardware and able to get connection.

Thanks.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 480

Answers (1)

David Grayson
David Grayson

Reputation: 87506

You should also try asking the manufacturer for the device's Windows drivers.

If the device doesn't have any Windows drivers, without knowing anything about your device, I would suggest that you use Zadig to attach WinUSB (Microsoft's generic USB device driver) to your printer. Then you can use libusb to write a cross-platform application that detects the machine and talks to it.

However, it might be that your device actually belongs to particular USB device class, such as the CDC ACM class. In that case, it would be better to install the drivers for that particular class. You can get your driver's descriptors using the Linux lsusb utility and examine them to see what class your device is.

Upvotes: 1

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