>>> from evdev import InputDevice, list_devices >>> devices = [InputDevice(fn) for fn in list_devices()] >>> for dev in devices: ... print(dev.fn, dev.name, dev.phys) /dev/input/event1 Dell Dell USB Keyboard usb-0000:00:12.1-2/input0 /dev/input/event0 Dell USB Optical Mouse usb-0000:00:12.0-2/input0
>>> from evdev import InputDevice
>>> dev = InputDevice('/dev/input/event0')
>>> print(dev)
device /dev/input/event0, name "Dell USB Optical Mouse", phys "usb-0000:00:12.0-2/input0"
>>> dev.capabilities()
... { 0: [0, 1, 2], 1: [272, 273, 274, 275], 2: [0, 1, 6, 8], 4: [4] }
>>> dev.capabilities(verbose=True)
... { ('EV_SYN', 0): [('SYN_REPORT', 0), ('SYN_CONFIG', 1), ('SYN_MT_REPORT', 2)],
... ('EV_KEY', 1): [('BTN_MOUSE', 272), ('BTN_RIGHT', 273), ('BTN_MIDDLE', 274), ('BTN_SIDE', 275)], ...
>>> from evdev import InputDevice
>>> dev = InputDevice('/dev/input/event7')
>>> print(dev)
device /dev/input/event7, name "Wacom Bamboo 2FG 4x5 Finger", phys ""
>>> dev.capabilities()
... { 1: [272, 273, 277, 278, 325, 330, 333] ,
... 3: [(0, AbsInfo(min=0, max=15360, fuzz=128, flat=0)),
... (1, AbsInfo(min=0, max=10240, fuzz=128, flat=0))] }
>>> dev.capabilities(verbose=True)
... { ('EV_KEY', 1): [('BTN_MOUSE', 272), ('BTN_RIGHT', 273), ...],
... ('EV_ABS', 3): [(('ABS_X', 0), AbsInfo(min=0, max=15360, fuzz=128, flat=0)),
... (('ABS_Y', 1), AbsInfo(min=0, max=10240, fuzz=128, flat=0)),] }
>>> dev.capabilities(absinfo=False)
... { 1: [272, 273, 277, 278, 325, 330, 333],
... 3: [0, 1, 47, 53, 54, 57] }
>>> dev.leds(verbose=True)
... [('LED_NUML', 0), ('LED_CAPSL', 1)]
>>> dev.leds()
... [0, 1]
>>> dev.set_led(ecodes.LED_NUML, 1) # enable numlock
>>> dev.set_led(ecodes.LED_NUML, 0) # disable numlock
>>> dev.active_keys(verbose=True)
... [('KEY_3', 4), ('KEY_LEFTSHIFT', 42)]
>>> dev.active_keys()
... [4, 42]
>>> from evdev import InputDevice, categorize, ecodes
>>> dev = InputDevice('/dev/input/event1')
>>> print(dev)
device /dev/input/event1, name "Dell Dell USB Keyboard", phys "usb-0000:00:12.1-2/input0"
>>> for event in dev.read_loop():
... if event.type == ecodes.EV_KEY:
... print(categorize(event))
... # pressing 'a' and holding 'space'
key event at 1337016188.396030, 30 (KEY_A), down
key event at 1337016188.492033, 30 (KEY_A), up
key event at 1337016189.772129, 57 (KEY_SPACE), down
key event at 1337016190.275396, 57 (KEY_SPACE), hold
key event at 1337016190.284160, 57 (KEY_SPACE), up
>>> from evdev import InputDevice
>>> from select import select
# A mapping of file descriptors (integers) to InputDevice instances.
>>> devices = map(InputDevice, ('/dev/input/event1', '/dev/input/event2'))
>>> devices = {dev.fd: dev for dev in devices}
>>> for dev in devices.values(): print(dev)
device /dev/input/event1, name "Dell Dell USB Keyboard", phys "usb-0000:00:12.1-2/input0"
device /dev/input/event2, name "Logitech USB Laser Mouse", phys "usb-0000:00:12.0-2/input0"
>>> while True:
... r, w, x = select(devices, [], [])
... for fd in r:
... for event in devices[fd].read():
... print(event)
event at 1351116708.002230, code 01, type 02, val 01
event at 1351116708.002234, code 00, type 00, val 00
event at 1351116708.782231, code 04, type 04, val 458782
event at 1351116708.782237, code 02, type 01, val 01
This can also be achieved using the selectors module in Python 3.4:
from evdev import InputDevice
from selectors import DefaultSelector, EVENT_READ
selector = selectors.DefaultSelector()
mouse = evdev.InputDevice('/dev/input/event1')
keybd = evdev.InputDevice('/dev/input/event2')
# This works because InputDevice has a `fileno()` method.
selector.register(mouse, selectors.EVENT_READ)
selector.register(keybd, selectors.EVENT_READ)
while True:
for key, mask in selector.select():
device = key.fileobj
for event in device.read():
print(event)
>>> from evdev import ecodes >>> ecodes.KEY_A, ecodes.ecodes['KEY_A'] ... (30, 30) >>> ecodes.KEY[30] ... 'KEY_A' >>> ecodes.bytype[ecodes.EV_KEY][30] ... 'KEY_A' >>> ecodes.KEY[152] # a single value may correspond to multiple codes ... ['KEY_COFFEE', 'KEY_SCREENLOCK']
>>> from asyncore import file_dispatcher, loop
>>> from evdev import InputDevice, categorize, ecodes
>>> dev = InputDevice('/dev/input/event1')
>>> class InputDeviceDispatcher(file_dispatcher):
... def __init__(self, device):
... self.device = device
... file_dispatcher.__init__(self, device)
...
... def recv(self, ign=None):
... return self.device.read()
...
... def handle_read(self):
... for event in self.recv():
... print(repr(event))
>>> InputDeviceDispatcher(dev)
>>> loop()
InputEvent(1337255905L, 358854L, 1, 30, 0L)
InputEvent(1337255905L, 358857L, 0, 0, 0L)
An example program that prints the number of events by type every 5 seconds:
import asyncio
from collections import Counter
from functools import partial
from evdev import InputDevice, ecodes
mouse = InputDevice('/dev/input/event1')
keybd = InputDevice('/dev/input/event2')
counter = Counter()
def read_events(device):
events = device.read()
counter.update([ev.type for ev in events])
@asyncio.coroutine
def summarize():
while True:
yield from asyncio.sleep(5)
print('Number of events by type in the last 5 seconds:')
print({ecodes.EV[k]: v for k,v in counter.items()})
counter.clear()
loop = asyncio.get_event_loop()
loop.add_reader(mouse, partial(read_events, mouse))
loop.add_reader(keybd, partial(read_events, keybd))
loop.run_until_complete(summarize())
>>> dev.grab() # become the sole recipient of all incoming input events >>> dev.ungrab()
>>> from evdev import categorize, event_factory, ecodes >>> class SynEvent(object): ... def __init__(self, event): ... ... >>> event_factory[ecodes.EV_SYN] = SynEvent
See :mod:`events <evdev.events.event_factory>` for more information.
>>> from evdev import UInput, ecodes as e >>> ui = UInput() >>> # accepts only KEY_* events by default >>> ui.write(e.EV_KEY, e.KEY_A, 1) # KEY_A down >>> ui.write(e.EV_KEY, e.KEY_A, 0) # KEY_A up >>> ui.syn() >>> ui.close()
>>> ev = InputEvent(1334414993, 274296, ecodes.EV_KEY, ecodes.KEY_A, 1) >>> with UInput() as ui: ... ui.write_event(ev) ... ui.syn()
>>> from evdev import UInput, AbsInfo, ecodes as e
>>> cap = {
... e.EV_KEY : [e.KEY_A, e.KEY_B],
... e.EV_ABS : [
... (e.ABS_X, AbsInfo(value=0, min=0, max=255,
... fuzz=0, flat=0, resolution=0)),
... (e.ABS_Y, AbsInfo(0, 0, 255, 0, 0, 0)),
... (e.ABS_MT_POSITION_X, (0, 255, 128, 0)) ]
... }
>>> ui = UInput(cap, name='example-device', version=0x3)
>>> print(ui)
name "example-device", bus "BUS_USB", vendor "0001", product "0001", version "0003"
event types: EV_KEY EV_ABS EV_SYN
>>> print(ui.capabilities())
{0: [0, 1, 3],
1: [30, 48],
3: [(0, AbsInfo(value=0, min=0, max=0, fuzz=255, flat=0, resolution=0)),
(1, AbsInfo(value=0, min=0, max=0, fuzz=255, flat=0, resolution=0)),
(53, AbsInfo(value=0, min=0, max=255, fuzz=128, flat=0, resolution=0))]}
>>> # move mouse cursor
>>> ui.write(e.EV_ABS, e.ABS_X, 20)
>>> ui.write(e.EV_ABS, e.ABS_Y, 20)
>>> ui.syn()