package main import ( "flag" "fmt" "log" "github.com/kylelemons/gousb/usb" "github.com/kylelemons/gousb/usbid" ) var ( debug = flag.Int("debug", 0, "libusb debug level (0..3)") ) func main() { flag.Parse() // Only one context should be needed for an application. It should always be closed. ctx := usb.NewContext() defer ctx.Close() // Debugging can be turned on; this shows some of the inner workings of the libusb package. ctx.Debug(*debug) // ListDevices is used to find the devices to open. devs, err := ctx.ListDevices(func(bus, addr int, desc *usb.Descriptor) bool { // After inspecting the descriptor, return true or false depending on whether // the device is "interesting" or not. Any descriptor for which true is returned // generates a DeviceInfo which is retuned in a slice. return true }) // All DeviceInfo returned from ListDevices must be closed. defer func() { for _, d := range devs { d.Close() } }() // ListDevices can occaionally fail, so be sure to check its return value. if err != nil { log.Fatalf("list: %s", err) } for _, dev := range devs { // The descriptor (which contains useful information) can always be obtained again // from a DeviceInfo. desc, err := dev.Descriptor() if err != nil { log.Printf("desc: %s", err) continue } // The DeviceInfo contains the bus number and bus address of the device. bus := dev.BusNumber() addr := dev.Address() // The usbid package can be used to print out human readable information. fmt.Printf("%03d:%03d %s\n", bus, addr, usbid.Describe(desc)) fmt.Printf(" Protocol: %s\n", usbid.Classify(desc)) // The configurations can be examined from the DeviceInfo, though they can only // be set once the device is opened. All configuration references must be closed, // to free up the memory in libusb. cfgs, err := dev.Configurations() defer func() { for _, cfg := range cfgs { cfg.Close() } }() if err != nil { log.Printf(" - configs: %s", err) continue } // This loop just uses more of the built-in and usbid pretty printing to list // the USB devices. for _, cfg := range cfgs { fmt.Printf(" %s:\n", cfg) for _, alt := range cfg.Interfaces { fmt.Printf(" --------------\n") for _, iface := range alt { fmt.Printf(" %s\n", iface) fmt.Printf(" %s\n", usbid.Classify(iface)) for _, end := range iface.Endpoints { fmt.Printf(" %s\n", end) } } } fmt.Printf(" --------------\n") } // To actually interact with a device, DevInfo.Open() returns a device handle // which can be used to do more I/O with the device and its endpoints. } }