1HID-RECORDER(1)                                                HID-RECORDER(1)
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NAME

6       hid-recorder - HID Input device recorder.
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SYNOPSIS

9       hid-recorder
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11       hid-recorder [OPTIONS] [/dev/hidrawX] [[/dev/hidrawY] ... ]
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OPTIONS

14       -d, --debugfs
15           use HID debugfs node. Some devices (like "Logitech USB Receiver" or
16           "Apple Magic Mouse") grabs the hidraw output leading to an empty
17           output. Fortunately, relying on HID debugfs can help us most of the
18           time. However, if hte device does report two many events at once
19           (multitouch panles for example), the HID debugfs node is missing a
20           lot of events, preventing us to make this the default behaviour.
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DESCRIPTION

23       hid-recorder is a tool that allow users to capture hidraw description
24       and events in order to replay them through the uhid kernel module.
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26       The first invocation type displayed above (without arguments) causes
27       hid-recorder to let the user choose which hidraw she will use,
28       including the name the device.
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30       Several hidraw nodes can be given to hid-recorder. In this case, the
31       recording of each node are multiplexed thanks to the tag D: as seen
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34       hid-recorder needs to be able to read from the hidraw device; in most
35       cases this means it must be run as root.
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37       hid-recorder and hid-replay are used to debug kernel issues with HID
38       input devices. The output of hid-recorder has the following syntax:
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42       •   D: tell which device we are currently working with
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44       •   R: size dump_of_report_descriptor_in_hexadecimal
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46       •   N: common_name_of_the_device
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48       •   P: physical_path
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EXIT CODE

55       hid-recorder returns EXIT_FAILURE on error.
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SEE ALSO

58       hid-replay(1)
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61           Copyright 2012, Benjamin Tissoires.
62           Copyright 2012, Red Hat, Inc.
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AUTHOR

65           Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@redhat.com>
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69                                  01/19/2023                   HID-RECORDER(1)
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