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Safwen Daghsen
Safwen Daghsen

Reputation: 145

reading input from a specific device python

If i have two keyboards (default keyboard and an RFID reader) in my Linux machine Using python how can I know from which device the input is coming from ?

I can read my input using the 

input()

but i need to distinguish between the two devices

Upvotes: 2

Views: 6929

Answers (1)

Tomax
Tomax

Reputation: 817

I'm assuming the RFID reader works on USB, if that's the case, should be treated like an input device as well as the HID Keybord (I'm assuming HID by your default).

I'm using evdev in python to do something similar for myself. You can find the documentation here: http://python-evdev.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tutorial.html#reading-events

It has lots of simple and useful examples, like identify and read from multiple devices asynchronously. I found it very easy to use.

Upvotes: 2

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