This branch of pyhidapi is not currently on PyPI, so you must download the source. From the root of this repository:
pip install .
pyhidapi is dependant upon the hidapi library, which must be installed separately.
Installation procedures vary depending on your distribution.
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
Binary distributions are available through EPEL.
yum install hidapi
Binary distributions are available.
dnf install hidapi
Binary distributions are available.
apt install libhidapi-hidraw0
or
apt install libhidapi-libusb0
Binary distributions may be available in your package repositories. If not, you can build from source as described in the libusb/hidapi README.
Installation procedure for Windows is described in the libusb/hidapi README
Binary distributions are provided by libusb/hidapi
Windows install location for dlls is C:\Windows\System32. Copy them into this folder to install. If you have 32-bit python, the 32-bit dll is requrired. Simillarly, if you have 64-bit python, the 64-bit dll is required.
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
It should be noted that at this time, brew still uses the old signal11 repository which has long since been abandond. See Homebrew/homebrew-core#41122.
The details about a HID device can be printed with following code:
import hid
vid = 0x046d # Change it for your device
pid = 0xc534 # Change it for your device
with hid.Device(vid, pid) as h:
print(f'Device manufacturer: {h.manufacturer}')
print(f'Product: {h.product}')
print(f'Serial Number: {h.serial}')