[libhid-discuss] libhid-discuss Digest, Vol 53, Issue 4

[Rudolf Muehlbauer]

Receiving strings is still somewhat strange, only the first
character is received.

If your device is not actually a human interface device and you have
some control over the firmware I very strongly recommend not using
the HID device class. If no class fits then vendor specific is an
excellent choice; it allows you complete freedom in how communication
works, and it can take advantage of the packet based nature of USB
communication. Reading a string could be as simple as giving a string
number and receiving the string bytes.
//Peter

No control over the firmware. The problem with the strings was in my
Mono P/Invoke code, a little misunderstanding with Mr. Marshal and
string encodings, fixed.

Well of course a vendor-specific device would be very beneficial. I
remember a small project I did once: ATMega with software-only USB
(http://www.obdev.at/products/vusb/index.html) and some lines of kernel
code or libusb - voil?!