The usb package
This library enables you to communicate with USB devices from userspace. It is implemented as a high-level wrapper around bindings-libusb which is a low-level binding to the C library: libusb-1.*.
The USB transfer functions in this library have a simple synchronous interface (they block) but are implemented using the libusb asynchronous interface. They integrate with the GHC event manager making them efficient (no busy-loops) and interruptible (throwing an exception to the thread executing a transfer immediately cancels the transfer).
If the GHC event manager is not available (because you're either not using GHC or because you're on Windows) the library degrades gracefully to the libusb synchronous implementation.
This documentation assumes knowledge of how to operate USB devices from a software standpoint (descriptors, configurations, interfaces, endpoints, control/bulk/interrupt/isochronous transfers, etc). Full information can be found in the USB 2.0 Specification.
For an example how to use this library see the usb-example package at:
https://github.com/basvandijk/usb-example
or the ls-usb package at:
http://hackage.haskell.org/package/ls-usb
Also see the usb-safe package which wraps this package and provides some strong safety guarantees for working with USB devices:
http://hackage.haskell.org/package/usb-safe
Finally have a look at the usb-iteratee package which provides iteratee enumerators for enumerating bulk, interrupt and isochronous endpoints:
http://hackage.haskell.org/package/usb-iteratee
Besides this API documentation the following sources might be interesting:
The libusb 1.0 documentation at: http://libusb.sourceforge.net/api-1.0/
The USB 2.0 specification at: http://www.usb.org/developers/docs/
The bindings-libusb documentation at: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/bindings-libusb
"USB in a NutShell" at: http://www.beyondlogic.org/usbnutshell/usb1.htm
Properties
| Versions | 0.1, 0.1.0.1, 0.2, 0.2.0.1, 0.3, 0.3.0.1, 0.3.1, 0.4, 0.5, 0.5.0.1, 0.6, 0.6.0.1, 0.6.0.2, 0.6.0.3, 0.6.0.4, 0.6.0.5, 0.6.0.6, 0.6.0.7, 0.6.0.8, 0.7, 0.8, 1.0, 1.1, 1.1.0.1, 1.1.0.2, 1.1.0.3, 1.1.0.4, 1.2 |
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| Dependencies | base (≥4 & <4.6), base-unicode-symbols (≥0.1.1 & <0.3), bindings-libusb (≥1.4.4 & <1.5), bytestring (0.9.*), text (≥0.5 & <0.12) |
| License | BSD3 |
| Copyright | 2009–2012 Bas van Dijk <v.dijk.bas@gmail.com> |
| Author | Bas van Dijk <v.dijk.bas@gmail.com> |
| Maintainer | Bas van Dijk <v.dijk.bas@gmail.com> |
| Category | System, Hardware |
| Home page | http://basvandijk.github.com/usb |
| Bug tracker | https://github.com/basvandijk/usb/issues |
| Source repository | git clone git://github.com/basvandijk/usb.git |
| Upload date | Thu Apr 12 21:21:14 UTC 2012 |
| Uploaded by | BasVanDijk |
| Built on | ghc-7.4 |
Modules
Downloads
- usb-1.1.0.1.tar.gz (Cabal source package)
- package description (included in the package)