HID-DECODE(1)

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💅 hid-decode — bestie, let's read that HID report descriptor 💅

okay so picture this: you've got a HID input device and it's speaking in cryptic binary and you're like "girl what are you even saying rn". that's where hid-decode comes in — it's a General Commands Manual girly and she's here to translate. 🦋

✨ NAME ✨

hid-decode — the HID input device report descriptor decoder. no cap, that's literally her whole job. 💖

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

hid-decode report-descriptor.bin

hid-decode /dev/hidraw0

hid-decode /dev/input/event0

hid-decode hid-recording

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

okay so hid-decode takes one or more HID report descriptors and decodes them into into human-readable format — yes, the original says "into into", she's quirky like that, we respect it. 🙈 it's giving translator icon, it's giving main character energy. ✨

and the way that she supports a whole variety of inputs?? obsessed:

  • a binary format as exported in sysfs, e.g. /sys/class/input/event0/device/device/report_descriptor 🍓
  • the format exported by hid-recorder(1) 💜
  • a /dev/hidraw node
  • a /dev/input/event node

the way she figures out the format?? it's deduced based on the input arguments, she's smart like that. 💅 and any format that goes undetected is assumed to be binary files — lowkey she just assumes bestie, it's fine, it works.

⚠️ heads up bestie: accessing a /dev/hidraw/ node usually requires root permissions. so like, sudo or don't bother, iykyk. 🔥

💀 EXIT CODE 💀

hid-decode returns 1 on error. that's it, that's the whole section. one (1) singular number. iconic. 👑

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

hid-recorder(1) — go read that one too, she said so. 🫶

Copyright 2018, Red Hat, Inc. 🎀

⭐ AUTHOR ⭐

Peter Hutterer peter.hutterer@redhat.com — thank you king, we love you 💖

and that's the whole page bestie! 🦋 this beauty lives in the General Commands Manual under HID-DECODE(1), and the footer's just out here saying HID-DECODE(1) and nothing else — no date, no extras, she's mysterious like that. periodt. 💅✨🌸

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