Detecting attached USB devices under Mac OSX
Solution 1
You can also use system_profiler SPUSBDataType
on a terminal
Solution 2
I found /Developer/Applications/Utilities/USB Prober to be of great use.
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janosrusiczki
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Updated on July 09, 2022Comments
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janosrusiczki almost 2 years
First of all a statement: I'm a newbie when it comes to programming for the Mac. However I have an assignment which requires USB communication with a device so I thought I'll start with something basic.
I took the code from here, built it and ran it from the Terminal. It starts up and writes:
Looking for devices matching vendor ID=1351 and product ID=8193.
Starting run loop.
However after this, if I plug in and out USB devices (I tried: iPod, GPS, mouse) nothing gets written on the screen, although as much as I understand there should be whenever I connect and disconnect a device.
What am I doing wrong?
Thanks in advance.
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ThomasW about 11 yearsUnfortunately, it appears that this utility is not in recent versions of the developer tools.
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user2746401 over 9 yearsThere's some links to download it at touch-base.com/documentation/USBMacProber.htm