Logitech Unifying Receiver Protocol?

Michael0x2a picture Michael0x2a · Feb 23, 2012 · Viewed 12k times · Source

Is there a place where I can find documentation or an SDK about the Logitech Unifying Receiver?

I recently obtained a wireless mouse, which came with a Logitech Unifying Receiver (a small USB dongle that plugs into the computer and communicates with the mouse/other compatible devices (such as keyboards)).

I wanted to try writing an app for my smartphone that pretends to be a mouse and sends data to the receiver.

I was able to monitor the data from the USB bus by using usbmon, and could probably use that to hack something out, but wanted to know if I could find the info I need somewhere on the internet without having to derive it on my own.

I'm going to try using SL4A on Android, if that helps any.

Answer

user91 picture user91 · Aug 2, 2012

This is Avery, aka Tequals0. The USB dongle is a USB HID mouse/keyboard device, so all that traffic that you are seeing is basically generic HID traffic- if you want to pair your phone to your dongle, you will have to emulate the wireless traffic, not the USB traffic-that is generated by the dongle.