G400 as USB Client Keyboard

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Hi, I found that it’s not compatible with it. Does something changed? I tried my G400 as USB Client Keyboard without success. Does the G30 TH Module be used as USB Client Keyboard to send keys to a PC?

Thank you.

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well, I’ll respond in this one since you decided to double post including in a year old thread and then start your own :slight_smile:

According to the task tracker, that was resolved in November 2014. What SDK are you using ? Have you updated the firmware? What troubleshooting have you done, what actually occurs, and what errors do you see?

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Hi, I double posted when I see that post was 1 year old :wink:

I am using NETMF by GHI 4.3.7.10

I am using standard example that send to PC “Hello world!”.

I am blocked because when debugger arrive to:



It throw:

Il thread '<Nessun nome>' (0x2) è terminato con il codice 0 (0x0).
    #### Exception System.InvalidOperationException - CLR_E_INVALID_OPERATION (1) ####
    #### Message: 
    #### GHI.Usb.Client.RawDevice::NativeInitialize [IP: 0000] ####
    #### GHI.Usb.Client.RawDevice::Activate [IP: 00fe] ####
    #### GHI.Usb.Client.Controller::set_ActiveDevice [IP: 001c] ####
    #### Program::Main [IP: 0009] ####
Eccezione first-chance di tipo 'System.InvalidOperationException' in GHI.Usb.dll
Eccezione non gestita di tipo 'System.InvalidOperationException' in GHI.Usb.dll

All the code is:


```cs
using System.Threading;
using GHI.Usb;
using GHI.Usb.Client;
using Microsoft.SPOT;
using Microsoft.SPOT.Hardware.UsbClient;

public class Program
{
    public static void Main()
    {
        // Start keyboard
        Keyboard kb = new Keyboard();
        Controller.ActiveDevice = kb;
        Debug.Print("Waiting to connect to PC...");
        // Send "Hello world!" every second
        while (true)
        {
            // Check if connected to PC
            if (Controller.State ==
                    UsbController.PortState.Running)
            {
                // We need shift down for capital "H"


                kb.Press(Key.LeftShift);
                kb.Stroke(Key.H);

                kb.Release(Key.LeftShift);
                // Now "ello world"
                kb.Stroke(Key.E);
                kb.Stroke(Key.L);
                kb.Stroke(Key.L);
                kb.Stroke(Key.O);
                kb.Stroke(Key.Space);
                kb.Stroke(Key.W);
                kb.Stroke(Key.O);
                kb.Stroke(Key.R);
                kb.Stroke(Key.L);
                kb.Stroke(Key.D);
                // The "!"
                kb.Press(Key.LeftShift);
                kb.Stroke(Key.D1);
                kb.Release(Key.LeftShift);
                // Send an enter key
                kb.Stroke(Key.Enter);
            }
            Thread.Sleep(1000);
        }
    }
}
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My bad I was using USB as Debug… I read that I need to use serial for debug! :wall:

I now get:

Il thread ‘’ (0x2) è terminato con il codice 0 (0x0).
Waiting to connect to PC…
#### Exception GHI.Usb.OperationTimedOutException - 0x00000000 (1) ####
#### Message:
#### GHI.Usb.Client.RawDevice+RawStream::Write [IP: 0093] ####
#### GHI.Usb.Client.RawDevice+RawStream::Write [IP: 0022] ####
#### GHI.Usb.Client.Keyboard::Press [IP: 006e] ####
#### GHI.Usb.Client.Keyboard::Stroke [IP: 0013] ####
#### Program::Main [IP: 0060] ####
Eccezione first-chance di tipo ‘GHI.Usb.OperationTimedOutException’ in GHI.Usb.dll
Eccezione non gestita di tipo ‘GHI.Usb.OperationTimedOutException’ in GHI.Usb.dll

at:

kb.Stroke(Key.Space);

but I’m not getting “Hello” printed before…

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Ok that was a timeout… things has need of some time… I found useful this change:

public static void Main()
    {

        // Start keyboard
        Keyboard kb = new Keyboard();
        Controller.ActiveDevice = kb;
        Debug.Print("Waiting to connect to PC...");
        // Send "Hello world!" every second
        while (true)
        {
            bool first_run = true;

            // Check if connected to PC
            if (Controller.State ==
                    UsbController.PortState.Running)
            {
                // We need shift down for capital "H"
                if (first_run)
                    Thread.Sleep(500);

                first_run = false;

                kb.Press(Key.LeftShift);
                kb.Stroke(Key.H);

                kb.Release(Key.LeftShift);
                // Now "ello world"
                kb.Stroke(Key.E);
                kb.Stroke(Key.L);
                kb.Stroke(Key.L);
                kb.Stroke(Key.O);
                kb.Stroke(Key.Space);
                kb.Stroke(Key.W);
                kb.Stroke(Key.O);
                kb.Stroke(Key.R);
                kb.Stroke(Key.L);
                kb.Stroke(Key.D);
                // The "!"
                kb.Press(Key.LeftShift);
                kb.Stroke(Key.D1);
                kb.Release(Key.LeftShift);
                // Send an enter key
                kb.Stroke(Key.Enter);
            }
            Thread.Sleep(1000);
        }
    }