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Re: Explanantion needed on how to get USB data from the roboRIO

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Originally Posted by Joe Ross View Post
Yes. The serial port class only works if the device is a serial port, ie linux recognizes it as a TTY or ACM device.

While it should be possible to use a generic HID device through linux interfaces, WPILib doesn't provide a library for it.
So I'd be writing my own code to handle making use of input then?

Is it worth the trouble to do this? Or should I just try and find another way?
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