HIDDevice

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The HIDDevice interface of the WebHID API represents a HID Device. It provides properties for accessing information about the device, methods for opening and closing the connection, and the sending and receiving of reports.

Instance properties

This interface also inherits properties from EventTarget.

• opened Read only Experimental
  • : Returns a Boolean, true if the device has an open connection.
• vendorId Read only Experimental
  • : Returns the vendorId of the HID device.
• productId Read only Experimental
  • : Returns the productId of the HID device.
• productName Read only Experimental
  • : Returns a string containing the product name of the HID device.
• collections Read only Experimental
  • : Returns an array of report formats for the HID device.

Events

• inputreport Experimental
  • : Fires when a report is sent from the device.

Instance methods

This interface also inherits methods from EventTarget.

• open() Experimental
  • : Opens a connection to this HID device, and returns a Promise which resolves once the connection has been successful.
• close() Experimental
  • : Closes the connection to this HID device, and returns a Promise which resolves once the connection has been closed.
• forget() Experimental
  • : Closes the connection to this HID device and resets access permission, and returns a Promise which resolves once the permission was reset.
• sendReport() Experimental
  • : Sends an output report to this HID Device, and returns a Promise which resolves once the report has been sent.
• sendFeatureReport() Experimental
  • : Sends a feature report to this HID device, and returns a Promise which resolves once the report has been sent.
• receiveFeatureReport() Experimental
  • : Receives a feature report from this HID device in the form of a Promise which resolves with a DataView. This allows typed access to the contents of this message.

Examples

The following example demonstrates listening for an inputreport event that will allow the application to detect which button is pressed on a Joy-Con Right device.

device.addEventListener("inputreport", (event) => {
  const { data, device, reportId } = event;

  // Handle only the Joy-Con Right device and a specific report ID.
  if (device.productId !== 0x2007 && reportId !== 0x3f) return;

  const value = data.getUint8(0);
  if (value === 0) return;

  const someButtons = { 1: "A", 2: "X", 4: "B", 8: "Y" };
  console.log(`User pressed button ${someButtons[value]}.`);
});

In the following example sendFeatureReport is used to make a device blink.

const reportId = 1;
for (let i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
  // Turn off
  await device.sendFeatureReport(reportId, Uint32Array.from([0, 0]));
  await new Promise((resolve) => setTimeout(resolve, 100));
  // Turn on
  await device.sendFeatureReport(reportId, Uint32Array.from([512, 0]));
  await new Promise((resolve) => setTimeout(resolve, 100));
}

You can see more examples, and live demos in the article Connecting to uncommon HID devices.

Specifications

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