Installing pyhidapi
pyhidapi is available on PyPI and can be installed using pip.
pip install hid
pyhidapi is dependant upon the hidapi library, which must be installed separately.
Installing hidapi
Linux
Installation procedures vary depending on your distribution.
Arch Linux
Binary distributions are available in the community repository.
- Enable the community repository in
/etc/pacman.conf
[community]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
- Install hidapi
pacman -Sy hidapi
CentOS/RHEL
Binary distributions are available through EPEL.
yum install hidapi
Fedora
Binary distributions are available.
dnf install hidapi
Ubuntu/Debian
Binary distributions are available.
apt install libhidapi-hidraw0
or
apt install libhidapi-libusb0
Others
Binary distributions may be available in your package repositories. If not, you can build from source as described in the libusb/hidapi README.
Windows
Installation procedure for Windows is described in the libusb/hidapi README
Binary distributions are provided by libusb/hidapi
OSX
There are currently no official binary distributions for Mac, so you must build hidapi yourself.
Installation instructions are described in the libusb/hidapi README
You can also use brew:
brew install hidapi
FreeBSD
Binary distributions are available.
pkg install -g 'py3*-hid'
Sample usage code
The details about a HID device can be printed with following code:
import hid
vid = 0x046d
pid = 0xc534
with hid.Device(vid, pid) as h:
print(f'Device manufacturer: {h.manufacturer}')
print(f'Product: {h.product}')
print(f'Serial Number: {h.serial}')