This is also my preferred approach, but maybe not for those who want to do *everything* in Pd and/or need to write to devices.

joyosc

https://github.com/danomatika/joyosc https://github.com/danomatika/joyosc

joystick & game controller hid device event to Open Sound Control daemon and associated tools

Cross-platform using SDL2.

On Sep 6, 2022, at 7:07 PM, pd-list-request@lists.iem.at wrote:

Message: 4 Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2022 10:07:09 -0700 From: Daniel Iglesia <daniel.iglesia@gmail.com mailto:daniel.iglesia@gmail.com> To: Alexandre Torres Porres <porres@gmail.com mailto:porres@gmail.com> Cc: "Peter P." <peterparker@fastmail.com mailto:peterparker@fastmail.com>, Pd-List <pd-list@lists.iem.at mailto:pd-list@lists.iem.at> Subject: Re: [PD] Reading/writing a HID device current best practice? Message-ID: <CANZ10W0dhw1uDp0hacR7S-fFAZABR+5WL5Wo1LbqoLsWvDY4BQ@mail.gmail.com mailto:CANZ10W0dhw1uDp0hacR7S-fFAZABR+5WL5Wo1LbqoLsWvDY4BQ@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"

I know this isn't the desired answer, but my strategy (a few years ago, on Raspberry Pi, haven't tried HID since then) was to launch a python script to listen for HID messages, then route them via UDP into a local port on which Pd would listen and consume the messages. I don't recall if I had to do some message unpacking in the python script or if I could just route the raw data and unpack everything in Pd.

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