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IOKit with Swift
I have some Objective C code, that I can not find the equivalent for Swift (many symbols are not present). It just lists all serial devices that match a prefix: + (NSArray*)serialDevicesWithPrefix:(NSString*)prefix { NSMutableArray* modems=[NSMutableArray arrayWithCapacity:10]; kern_return_t kernResult; mach_port_t masterPort ; CFMutableDictionaryRef classesToMatch; io_iterator_t matchingServices; NSString* serialDevice=@"/dev/cu."; serialDevice=[serialDevice stringByAppendingString:prefix]; // Lets find all serial device types ; // Get the port for communications to kernal kernResult = IOMainPort(kIOMainPortDefault, &masterPort) ; if (kernResult == KERN_SUCCESS) { // We got a good result! classesToMatch = IOServiceMatching(kIOSerialBSDServiceValue) ; if (classesToMatch != NULL) { // Now, we need to say we are looking for RS232 type of connections // Each serial device object has a property with key // kIOSerialBSDTypeKey and a value that is one of // kIOSerialBSDAllTypes, kIOSerialBSDModemType, // or kIOSerialBSDRS232Type. You can change the // matching dictionary to find other types of serial // devices by changing the last parameter in the above call // to CFDictionarySetValue. CFDictionarySetValue(classesToMatch, CFSTR(kIOSerialBSDTypeKey), CFSTR(kIOSerialBSDRS232Type)); kernResult = IOServiceGetMatchingServices(masterPort, classesToMatch, &matchingServices); if (kernResult == KERN_SUCCESS) { // We did something! // Matching serveres are the ones that "match" our need, now we have to loop through that and get the names io_object_t modemService; while ((modemService = IOIteratorNext(matchingServices))) { CFTypeRef deviceFilePathAsCFString; // Get the callout device's path (/dev/cu.xxxxx). // The callout device should almost always be // used. You would use the dialin device (/dev/tty.xxxxx) when // monitoring a serial port for // incoming calls, for example, a fax listener. deviceFilePathAsCFString = IORegistryEntryCreateCFProperty(modemService,CFSTR(kIOCalloutDeviceKey),kCFAllocatorDefault,0); if (deviceFilePathAsCFString) { // We got it! NSString* currentModem=(__bridge_transfer NSString *)deviceFilePathAsCFString; if ([currentModem hasPrefix:serialDevice]) { [modems addObject:currentModem]; } } IOObjectRelease(modemService) ; // We need to release it! } // We should release our iterator IOObjectRelease(matchingServices) ; } } } return modems ; } Does anyone have ideas?
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linker error | undefined symbols
I have a C file for accessing the apple smc and I have the corresponding header file with my declarations in it but when I build my Xcode project I get the error: "ld: Undefined symbols: _getTemperature, referenced from: _main in getsmc.o clang: error: linker comm" #include <stdio.h> #include <IOKit/IOKitLib.h> typedef struct { uint32_t datasize; uint32_t datatype; uint8_t data[32]; } SMCVal_t; io_connect_t conn; kern_return_t openSMC(void) { kern_return_t result; kern_return_t service; io_iterator_t iterator; service = IOServiceGetMatchingServices(kIOMainPortDefault, IOServiceMatching("AppleSMC"), &iterator); if(service == 0) { printf("error: could not match dictionary"); return 0; } result = IOServiceOpen(service, mach_task_self(), 0, &conn); IOObjectRelease(service); return 0; } kern_return_t closeSMC(void) { return IOServiceClose(conn); } double getTemperature(char *key); kern_return_t readSMC(char *key, SMCVal_t *val) { kern_return_t result; uint32_t keyCode = *(uint32_t *)key; SMCVal_t inputStruct; SMCVal_t outputStruct; inputStruct.datasize = sizeof(SMCVal_t); inputStruct.datatype = 'I' << 24; //a left shift operation. turning the I into an int by shifting the ASCII value 24 bits to the left inputStruct.data[0] = keyCode; result = IOConnectCallStructMethod(conn, 5, &inputStruct, sizeof(SMCVal_t), &outputStruct, (size_t*)&inputStruct.datasize); if (result == kIOReturnSuccess) { if (val -> datasize > 0) { if (val -> datatype == ('f' << 24 | 'l' << 16 | 't' << 8 )) { float temp = *(float *)val -> data; return temp; } } } return 0.0; } int main(void) { kern_return_t result; result = openSMC(); if(result == kIOReturnSuccess) { double temp = getTemperature("TC0P"); printf("temp: %.2f\n", temp); result = closeSMC(); } return 0; }
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Protocol availability inconsistencies related to modern serial layers
I am currently writing a iPadOS application to act as a companion to the desktop version that controls a piece of hardware via a USB CDC serial connection. Due to modern iPads having USB-C ports for the last 2 years and the ability to attach certain USB devices via adaptors since the origin of the 30pin doc connector I would expect protocol availability to be fairly complete. So then why is it that the headers required to use USB CDC serial don't exist and if you make them yourself you need to use illegal symbols so you can't upload it to App Store connect. Where as USB CDC ethernet has full support along with Bluetooth RFCOMM (rs232 serial over bluetooth) and even USB MIDI given that midi is a superset of serial. So why isn't there a USB CDC serial kit/api/even just allowing a data stream to the TTY/CU port? If there is a way please tell me what it is and point me to the documentation.
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Dec ’23
IOServiceOpen Keeps Returning kIOReturnUnsupported
I have a custom HID device that works on Windows totally fine with the default HID driver. The HID device knows how to accept string commands to control it and respond accordingly. I am trying to control it on Mac using IOKit. I am able to get the io_service_t reference to the IOHIDInterface for the device from the I/ORegistery. I use this to instantiate a class to represent the device. But when I try to establish a connection to the service, I keep getting -536870201 which corresponds to kIOReturnUnsupported. I'm not entirely sure what I am doing wrong here and I wasn't able to find anything online that could really help.
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Dec ’23
Control HID USB Device from iPad?
I have a custom HID USB device that I can control on Mac with IOKit via the default HID MacOS driver. I am using IOHIDManager to detect it and send reports to it. I would like to extend this capability to iPad but the full IOKit framework is not supported on iOS/iPadOS. I saw that USBDriverKit is now supported on iPads with an M1 chip or newer. But, both MacOS and Windows can operate the device with their generic HID driver. As such, having to create a whole custom driver to interact with an HID device on iOS is really overkill. Would registering it in the MFi Program and operating it with the External Accessory framework be the correct route to take here? Or is there another framework for controlling HID devices on iPad over USB that I am not aware of?
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Dec ’23
Temperature was not able to be retrieved
0 I am building a simple macOS menu bar app in swift that displays my machine's CPU temperature and I'm just testing out my function to make sure it can retrieve the temp and display it in the Xcode terminal but instead my error handler messages are triggered indicating an issue retrieving my machines CPU temp data "CPU temp °F could not be retrieved temps couldnot be displayed" import Cocoa import IOKit import IOKit.ps class CPUTempWithServiceMatching { static func getCPUTemp() -> Double? { let dictionaryMatching = IOServiceMatching("AppleSMC") var service = IOServiceGetMatchingService(kIOMainPortDefault, dictionaryMatching) var temp = "0.0" if service != 0 { let key = "TC0P" //thermal zone zero proxy if let result = IORegistryEntryCreateCFProperty(service, key as CFString, kCFAllocatorDefault, 0 ) { temp = (result.takeUnretainedValue() as! NSNumber).doubleValue.description IOObjectRelease(service) if let CPUTemp = Double(temp) { print("CPU Temp: \(CPUTemp) °F") return(CPUTemp) } } print("CPU temp °F could not be retrieved") } return nil } } @main struct program { static func main() { if let cpuTemp = CPUTempWithServiceMatching.getCPUTemp() { print("cpu temp\(cpuTemp) °F") } else { print("temps couldnot be displayed") } } }
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Dec ’23
Metal Device Architecture on macOS versions before Sonoma
Hello, The latest version of Metal (on macOS 14) seems to have the instance property for the Metal device architecture. I was curious how this could be achieved on versions of macOS prior to 14 programatically? xcrun metal-arch The above command provides exactly what I need. I was thinking that I could use Metal and IOKit to grab the architecture, but I am lead to believe that there is some kind of mapping in the metal-arch tool and it may not be that easy. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
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Dec ’23
IOHIDDeviceSetReport only works one time
I'm using IOKit to connect to a custom USB HID device. I'm using XCode 14 and running Swift/SwiftUI. So far I have had great success reading from the device with IOHIDDeviceGetReport and this can be done repeatedly with no issues. However, when I use IOHIDDeviceSetReport, I can only successfully set the report to the device one time correctly but any subsequent call to this function would just end up with an I/O Timeout. Any calls using IOHIDDeviceGetReport still works fine so the USB Device is still functioning correctly, but I couldn't receive any additional IOHIDDeviceSetReport call. If I unplug the USB and plug it in again, I can once again successfully send a command. This is, of course, not very practical for the end user to have to unplug and plug the device in after a single set command, and I don't quite understand what's going on with this. Here's my SetOutputReport function to call the IOHIDDeviceSetReport. The IOHIDDevice must already be connected and opened before calling this function so it's not nil. I don't have this "one shot send command" problem on the PC (Windows 7, 10, 11) or Android (v.11,12,13,14) implementation of this Custom USB HID device. It seems like there's something at the lower level of IOHIDDeviceSetReport on macOS which might be done differently than what's available on the PC or Android. Many searches on the web yielded no useful results. There's an IOHIDDeviceSetReportWithCallback function and it also seems only to work one time as well. private func SetOutputReport(dev: IOHIDDevice? ,reportID: Int, data:[UInt8], reportLength: Int) -> String{ let inputReportID = reportID var buffer = data buffer[0] = UInt8(inputReportID) let bufferPointer = UnsafeMutablePointer<UInt8>.allocate(capacity: buffer.count) bufferPointer.initialize(from: &buffer, count: buffer.count) //print(bufferPointer[0]) let bufferLength: CFIndex = buffer.count var success: IOReturn = kIOReturnError if(dev != nil){ success = IOHIDDeviceSetReport(dev!, kIOHIDReportTypeOutput, CFIndex(buffer[0]), bufferPointer, bufferLength) } print("Set report result \(krToString(success))") return krToString(success) }
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Nov ’23
Connection between client and DriverKit
In a project, I'm using the DriverKit(and HIDDriverKit) framework. I have encountered a problem in the connection between the client app and the driver, which is implemented by the "IOKit" framework. By calling the function "IOServiceGetMatchingServices" the value of "iterator" returns correctly and then communication with the driver is done. However, after releasing the version on the TestFlight, on some systems, the value of the "iterator" returned 0 and it is not possible to communicate with the driver. I checked the status of the activated driver with the command "systemextensionsctl list" and there are no problems on the driver side and the values of "Enabled" and "Active" are starred. AppSandbox = True, SIP: enable ret = IOServiceGetMatchingServices(kIOMainPortDefault, IOServiceNameMatching(dextIdentifier), &iterator); if (ret != kIOReturnSuccess) { goto fail; } while ((service = IOIteratorNext(iterator)) != IO_OBJECT_NULL) { ret = IOServiceOpen(service, mach_task_self(), 0, &connection); if(ret == kIOReturnSuccess) { break; } else { syslog(LOG_WARNING, "IDmelonLog LIB: Can't open service"); } IOObjectRelease(service); }
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Nov ’23
How to develop a driver extension for a USB mass storage device
I am currently in the process of developing a DEXT for a USB based external mass storage device using the USBDriverKit framework. IOUSBHostInterface is used as the provider to communicate with the interface's endpoints and I am successful in it. As per the IOUSBHostInterface documentation, To use a host interface object, call Open to create a new session between the interface and your driver. After successfully opening your session, you can request information from the interface and set up pipes to communicate with the interface's endpoints. Remember to close the session you opened in the Stop method of your driver. However, calling Open gains exclusive access to the USB interface and does not allow other services to access the interface. Also, to let go of the exclusive access, Close method can be called but in the Stop method which is called only once during the lifecycle of the extension (when the DEXT is unloaded). As a result of this, Apple's mass storage related KEXTs (media and partition related specifically) do not match the interface and so the filesystem of the drive in question does not get mounted whenever the DEXT has matched the interface. Is this exclusive access a limitation of USBDriverkit or is there any way to get around this issue in this case?
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Nov ’23
Suspending USB Device
I'm working on a system management tool that should be able to Allow/Deny mass storage and portable devices. In case if it is a USB flash drive I can detect Mount events using Endpoint Security framework. Then using IOServiceGetMatchingServices I can find the actual device that is trying to mount new volume, check if it is an allowed device and Allow or Deny mount. But in case if it is an iPhone/iPad or Android device I can't rely on that solution as they don't mount new volumes but user can copy files to the phone. To cover this case I could respond with Deny for the ES_EVENT_TYPE_AUTH_IOKIT_OPEN event. But at that moment I know nothing about the device, only its class which is the same for a mouse and for iPhone. I can add a notification for adding new USB devices, but then I would need somehow to understand that it is a phone/tablet and disconnect or suspend needed USB Device. How could I disconnect or suspend a USB Device having only io_object_t?
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ASUS XONAR PCI Audio Card kext signing/distribution
hi, so i have a little bit of work left on the Asus Xonar family of audio devices. thanks to APPUL's samplepciaudiodriver code and their excellent documentation, Evegeny Gavrilov's kxAudio driver for MAC and Takashi Iwai's exceptional documentation of the ALSA API i have something that is ready for testing. the stats look good, but unfortunately i this is my second HDAV1.3 deluxe. the other one is also in the same room consuming all of my devices with powered audio outputs. no matter, i am in the process of acquiring another xonar sound card in this family. which brings me to my question: what is the benefit of getting an apple developer account for 99 dollars a year? will i be able to distribute a beta kext with my signature that will allow people to test the binary? i don't think others could run a self-signed kext built on one machine, on another, correct? so would a developer license allow others to test a binary built on my machine, assuming they're x86? my hope is that the developer program would allow me to test the binaries and solicit input from enthusiast mac pro owners WORLD WIDE. i them hope to create a new program that will give us the wealth mixers/controls this fantastic line is capable of providing.
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Nov ’23
iOS cpu/gpu/battery temperature readings
Good day! I'm interested in if there is any way to query CPU/GPU/Battery temperature values on recent iOS systems? I've tried to search forums for "cpu temp", "ios temperature", "battery temperature" etc., but didn't find anything. There was only mentioned some old private API which was supposed to work somehow for iOS<10. All the examples I've found didn't even compile. All the requests and suggestions are pretty old and seems irrelevant. So I decided to bump this topic. Are there any updates? Any hints and suggestions are highly appreciated! Best regards!
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Oct ’23
Check whether there has been any iOS SDK framework or program that support developing a custom driver for our own hardware device via USB type C port (after the release of the new iPhone 15 with type C port supported)
I'd like to check whether there has been (or there will be) any iOS SDK framework or program that support developing a custom driver for our own hardware device via USB type C port, especially after the release of the new iPhone 15 with type C port supported. In addition, I'd like to understand how the app review process will work if we're releasing a Crypto Wallet application that utilizes the cold wallet hardware device, will it be necessary for us to send a set of hardware over to the Apple review team, or the app review can be arranged without the actual device?
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Oct ’23
Using DriverKit to simulate graphics tablet input
Hi, My goal is to enable this project https://github.com/evidlo/remarkable_mouse to provide native tablet inputs with full information to applications on MacOS, allowing me to reuse my reMarkable tablet for the computer instead of having to buy yet another device, such as a Wacom tablet or an iPad Pro for sidecar when the necessary hardware is already in my posession. I would like to understand whether it is possible to use DriverKit in order to simulate a graphics tablet input device with extra inputs such as pressure and tilt in user-space. Or is this something where IOKit or other comes into play, requiring the creation of a kernel space driver? In either case, what would be the right steps to take? How would I create a virtual device and what are the limitations? If you have the knowledge, how complex would you consider this project to be? The path should basically be some inter-process communication from remarkable_mouse, possibly file-based, triggering tablet events through the driver. At least in the first stage. I assume better performance would be achieved if the whole system was self-contained but porting the reMarkable communication is another challenge on its own. I am experienced developing in other environments but MacOS and driver development are fairly new to me. I've read through the documentation on how to handle the tablet events but creating them seems much murkier. I have searched around for this specific topic without getting much. An open-source tablet driver would be a great place to start but sadly I found none. I've also inquired with ChatGPT but only got high level tips and pseudocode. Any help is greatly appreciated, thank you!
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Oct ’23
getting device manufacturer name and device serial number programatically in mac
Hi, I am an absolute beginner at IOKit registry and have a usecase to obtain the device manufacturer name, device serial number and device USB vendor name progrmatically. I m able to obtain the same using ioreg command but I wanted to get these values within my program. Thanks in advance. Device serial number: ioreg -rd1 -c IOPlatformExpertDevice | grep 'IOPlatformSerialNumber' Device manufacturer name: ioreg -rd1 -c IOPlatformExpertDevice | grep 'manufacturer' USB device vendor names: ioreg -rd1 -c IOUSBHostDevice | grep "USB Vendor Name"
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Restore dext settings on startup
Dear Sirs, I've written a driver extension that can be configured through a user mode application. Now when the system reboots I'd like to start the dext again with the latest configuration right from the beginning and before the user mode applications is started (if it is started at all). What is the recommended way to do this and is there an example available? Should I do this using configuration files and through a special file API inside the dext or is there a kind of registry, or should I use sysctl variables and sysctlbyname? Thanks and best regards, Johannes
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Sep ’23
IOKit with Swift
I have some Objective C code, that I can not find the equivalent for Swift (many symbols are not present). It just lists all serial devices that match a prefix: + (NSArray*)serialDevicesWithPrefix:(NSString*)prefix { NSMutableArray* modems=[NSMutableArray arrayWithCapacity:10]; kern_return_t kernResult; mach_port_t masterPort ; CFMutableDictionaryRef classesToMatch; io_iterator_t matchingServices; NSString* serialDevice=@"/dev/cu."; serialDevice=[serialDevice stringByAppendingString:prefix]; // Lets find all serial device types ; // Get the port for communications to kernal kernResult = IOMainPort(kIOMainPortDefault, &masterPort) ; if (kernResult == KERN_SUCCESS) { // We got a good result! classesToMatch = IOServiceMatching(kIOSerialBSDServiceValue) ; if (classesToMatch != NULL) { // Now, we need to say we are looking for RS232 type of connections // Each serial device object has a property with key // kIOSerialBSDTypeKey and a value that is one of // kIOSerialBSDAllTypes, kIOSerialBSDModemType, // or kIOSerialBSDRS232Type. You can change the // matching dictionary to find other types of serial // devices by changing the last parameter in the above call // to CFDictionarySetValue. CFDictionarySetValue(classesToMatch, CFSTR(kIOSerialBSDTypeKey), CFSTR(kIOSerialBSDRS232Type)); kernResult = IOServiceGetMatchingServices(masterPort, classesToMatch, &matchingServices); if (kernResult == KERN_SUCCESS) { // We did something! // Matching serveres are the ones that "match" our need, now we have to loop through that and get the names io_object_t modemService; while ((modemService = IOIteratorNext(matchingServices))) { CFTypeRef deviceFilePathAsCFString; // Get the callout device's path (/dev/cu.xxxxx). // The callout device should almost always be // used. You would use the dialin device (/dev/tty.xxxxx) when // monitoring a serial port for // incoming calls, for example, a fax listener. deviceFilePathAsCFString = IORegistryEntryCreateCFProperty(modemService,CFSTR(kIOCalloutDeviceKey),kCFAllocatorDefault,0); if (deviceFilePathAsCFString) { // We got it! NSString* currentModem=(__bridge_transfer NSString *)deviceFilePathAsCFString; if ([currentModem hasPrefix:serialDevice]) { [modems addObject:currentModem]; } } IOObjectRelease(modemService) ; // We need to release it! } // We should release our iterator IOObjectRelease(matchingServices) ; } } } return modems ; } Does anyone have ideas?
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iOS iPhone15 USBHid
iOS uses the USB HID protocol to communicate wiredly with external peripherals. Is this technology feasible? Why?
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linker error | undefined symbols
I have a C file for accessing the apple smc and I have the corresponding header file with my declarations in it but when I build my Xcode project I get the error: "ld: Undefined symbols: _getTemperature, referenced from: _main in getsmc.o clang: error: linker comm" #include <stdio.h> #include <IOKit/IOKitLib.h> typedef struct { uint32_t datasize; uint32_t datatype; uint8_t data[32]; } SMCVal_t; io_connect_t conn; kern_return_t openSMC(void) { kern_return_t result; kern_return_t service; io_iterator_t iterator; service = IOServiceGetMatchingServices(kIOMainPortDefault, IOServiceMatching("AppleSMC"), &iterator); if(service == 0) { printf("error: could not match dictionary"); return 0; } result = IOServiceOpen(service, mach_task_self(), 0, &conn); IOObjectRelease(service); return 0; } kern_return_t closeSMC(void) { return IOServiceClose(conn); } double getTemperature(char *key); kern_return_t readSMC(char *key, SMCVal_t *val) { kern_return_t result; uint32_t keyCode = *(uint32_t *)key; SMCVal_t inputStruct; SMCVal_t outputStruct; inputStruct.datasize = sizeof(SMCVal_t); inputStruct.datatype = 'I' << 24; //a left shift operation. turning the I into an int by shifting the ASCII value 24 bits to the left inputStruct.data[0] = keyCode; result = IOConnectCallStructMethod(conn, 5, &inputStruct, sizeof(SMCVal_t), &outputStruct, (size_t*)&inputStruct.datasize); if (result == kIOReturnSuccess) { if (val -> datasize > 0) { if (val -> datatype == ('f' << 24 | 'l' << 16 | 't' << 8 )) { float temp = *(float *)val -> data; return temp; } } } return 0.0; } int main(void) { kern_return_t result; result = openSMC(); if(result == kIOReturnSuccess) { double temp = getTemperature("TC0P"); printf("temp: %.2f\n", temp); result = closeSMC(); } return 0; }
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Protocol availability inconsistencies related to modern serial layers
I am currently writing a iPadOS application to act as a companion to the desktop version that controls a piece of hardware via a USB CDC serial connection. Due to modern iPads having USB-C ports for the last 2 years and the ability to attach certain USB devices via adaptors since the origin of the 30pin doc connector I would expect protocol availability to be fairly complete. So then why is it that the headers required to use USB CDC serial don't exist and if you make them yourself you need to use illegal symbols so you can't upload it to App Store connect. Where as USB CDC ethernet has full support along with Bluetooth RFCOMM (rs232 serial over bluetooth) and even USB MIDI given that midi is a superset of serial. So why isn't there a USB CDC serial kit/api/even just allowing a data stream to the TTY/CU port? If there is a way please tell me what it is and point me to the documentation.
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IOServiceOpen Keeps Returning kIOReturnUnsupported
I have a custom HID device that works on Windows totally fine with the default HID driver. The HID device knows how to accept string commands to control it and respond accordingly. I am trying to control it on Mac using IOKit. I am able to get the io_service_t reference to the IOHIDInterface for the device from the I/ORegistery. I use this to instantiate a class to represent the device. But when I try to establish a connection to the service, I keep getting -536870201 which corresponds to kIOReturnUnsupported. I'm not entirely sure what I am doing wrong here and I wasn't able to find anything online that could really help.
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Control HID USB Device from iPad?
I have a custom HID USB device that I can control on Mac with IOKit via the default HID MacOS driver. I am using IOHIDManager to detect it and send reports to it. I would like to extend this capability to iPad but the full IOKit framework is not supported on iOS/iPadOS. I saw that USBDriverKit is now supported on iPads with an M1 chip or newer. But, both MacOS and Windows can operate the device with their generic HID driver. As such, having to create a whole custom driver to interact with an HID device on iOS is really overkill. Would registering it in the MFi Program and operating it with the External Accessory framework be the correct route to take here? Or is there another framework for controlling HID devices on iPad over USB that I am not aware of?
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Temperature was not able to be retrieved
0 I am building a simple macOS menu bar app in swift that displays my machine's CPU temperature and I'm just testing out my function to make sure it can retrieve the temp and display it in the Xcode terminal but instead my error handler messages are triggered indicating an issue retrieving my machines CPU temp data "CPU temp °F could not be retrieved temps couldnot be displayed" import Cocoa import IOKit import IOKit.ps class CPUTempWithServiceMatching { static func getCPUTemp() -> Double? { let dictionaryMatching = IOServiceMatching("AppleSMC") var service = IOServiceGetMatchingService(kIOMainPortDefault, dictionaryMatching) var temp = "0.0" if service != 0 { let key = "TC0P" //thermal zone zero proxy if let result = IORegistryEntryCreateCFProperty(service, key as CFString, kCFAllocatorDefault, 0 ) { temp = (result.takeUnretainedValue() as! NSNumber).doubleValue.description IOObjectRelease(service) if let CPUTemp = Double(temp) { print("CPU Temp: \(CPUTemp) °F") return(CPUTemp) } } print("CPU temp °F could not be retrieved") } return nil } } @main struct program { static func main() { if let cpuTemp = CPUTempWithServiceMatching.getCPUTemp() { print("cpu temp\(cpuTemp) °F") } else { print("temps couldnot be displayed") } } }
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Need a assistance in getting USB information using DriverKit Extension
I want to get the information of USB like, USB name, size, VID, PID, etc using DriverKit Extension but I'm facing difficulty finding such references or Sample code for the same. Please help me with the Sample code to get USB info with the help of Dext. Thanks
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Metal Device Architecture on macOS versions before Sonoma
Hello, The latest version of Metal (on macOS 14) seems to have the instance property for the Metal device architecture. I was curious how this could be achieved on versions of macOS prior to 14 programatically? xcrun metal-arch The above command provides exactly what I need. I was thinking that I could use Metal and IOKit to grab the architecture, but I am lead to believe that there is some kind of mapping in the metal-arch tool and it may not be that easy. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
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Dec ’23
IOHIDDeviceSetReport only works one time
I'm using IOKit to connect to a custom USB HID device. I'm using XCode 14 and running Swift/SwiftUI. So far I have had great success reading from the device with IOHIDDeviceGetReport and this can be done repeatedly with no issues. However, when I use IOHIDDeviceSetReport, I can only successfully set the report to the device one time correctly but any subsequent call to this function would just end up with an I/O Timeout. Any calls using IOHIDDeviceGetReport still works fine so the USB Device is still functioning correctly, but I couldn't receive any additional IOHIDDeviceSetReport call. If I unplug the USB and plug it in again, I can once again successfully send a command. This is, of course, not very practical for the end user to have to unplug and plug the device in after a single set command, and I don't quite understand what's going on with this. Here's my SetOutputReport function to call the IOHIDDeviceSetReport. The IOHIDDevice must already be connected and opened before calling this function so it's not nil. I don't have this "one shot send command" problem on the PC (Windows 7, 10, 11) or Android (v.11,12,13,14) implementation of this Custom USB HID device. It seems like there's something at the lower level of IOHIDDeviceSetReport on macOS which might be done differently than what's available on the PC or Android. Many searches on the web yielded no useful results. There's an IOHIDDeviceSetReportWithCallback function and it also seems only to work one time as well. private func SetOutputReport(dev: IOHIDDevice? ,reportID: Int, data:[UInt8], reportLength: Int) -> String{ let inputReportID = reportID var buffer = data buffer[0] = UInt8(inputReportID) let bufferPointer = UnsafeMutablePointer<UInt8>.allocate(capacity: buffer.count) bufferPointer.initialize(from: &buffer, count: buffer.count) //print(bufferPointer[0]) let bufferLength: CFIndex = buffer.count var success: IOReturn = kIOReturnError if(dev != nil){ success = IOHIDDeviceSetReport(dev!, kIOHIDReportTypeOutput, CFIndex(buffer[0]), bufferPointer, bufferLength) } print("Set report result \(krToString(success))") return krToString(success) }
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Nov ’23
Connection between client and DriverKit
In a project, I'm using the DriverKit(and HIDDriverKit) framework. I have encountered a problem in the connection between the client app and the driver, which is implemented by the "IOKit" framework. By calling the function "IOServiceGetMatchingServices" the value of "iterator" returns correctly and then communication with the driver is done. However, after releasing the version on the TestFlight, on some systems, the value of the "iterator" returned 0 and it is not possible to communicate with the driver. I checked the status of the activated driver with the command "systemextensionsctl list" and there are no problems on the driver side and the values of "Enabled" and "Active" are starred. AppSandbox = True, SIP: enable ret = IOServiceGetMatchingServices(kIOMainPortDefault, IOServiceNameMatching(dextIdentifier), &iterator); if (ret != kIOReturnSuccess) { goto fail; } while ((service = IOIteratorNext(iterator)) != IO_OBJECT_NULL) { ret = IOServiceOpen(service, mach_task_self(), 0, &connection); if(ret == kIOReturnSuccess) { break; } else { syslog(LOG_WARNING, "IDmelonLog LIB: Can't open service"); } IOObjectRelease(service); }
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Nov ’23
How to develop a driver extension for a USB mass storage device
I am currently in the process of developing a DEXT for a USB based external mass storage device using the USBDriverKit framework. IOUSBHostInterface is used as the provider to communicate with the interface's endpoints and I am successful in it. As per the IOUSBHostInterface documentation, To use a host interface object, call Open to create a new session between the interface and your driver. After successfully opening your session, you can request information from the interface and set up pipes to communicate with the interface's endpoints. Remember to close the session you opened in the Stop method of your driver. However, calling Open gains exclusive access to the USB interface and does not allow other services to access the interface. Also, to let go of the exclusive access, Close method can be called but in the Stop method which is called only once during the lifecycle of the extension (when the DEXT is unloaded). As a result of this, Apple's mass storage related KEXTs (media and partition related specifically) do not match the interface and so the filesystem of the drive in question does not get mounted whenever the DEXT has matched the interface. Is this exclusive access a limitation of USBDriverkit or is there any way to get around this issue in this case?
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Nov ’23
Suspending USB Device
I'm working on a system management tool that should be able to Allow/Deny mass storage and portable devices. In case if it is a USB flash drive I can detect Mount events using Endpoint Security framework. Then using IOServiceGetMatchingServices I can find the actual device that is trying to mount new volume, check if it is an allowed device and Allow or Deny mount. But in case if it is an iPhone/iPad or Android device I can't rely on that solution as they don't mount new volumes but user can copy files to the phone. To cover this case I could respond with Deny for the ES_EVENT_TYPE_AUTH_IOKIT_OPEN event. But at that moment I know nothing about the device, only its class which is the same for a mouse and for iPhone. I can add a notification for adding new USB devices, but then I would need somehow to understand that it is a phone/tablet and disconnect or suspend needed USB Device. How could I disconnect or suspend a USB Device having only io_object_t?
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Nov ’23
ASUS XONAR PCI Audio Card kext signing/distribution
hi, so i have a little bit of work left on the Asus Xonar family of audio devices. thanks to APPUL's samplepciaudiodriver code and their excellent documentation, Evegeny Gavrilov's kxAudio driver for MAC and Takashi Iwai's exceptional documentation of the ALSA API i have something that is ready for testing. the stats look good, but unfortunately i this is my second HDAV1.3 deluxe. the other one is also in the same room consuming all of my devices with powered audio outputs. no matter, i am in the process of acquiring another xonar sound card in this family. which brings me to my question: what is the benefit of getting an apple developer account for 99 dollars a year? will i be able to distribute a beta kext with my signature that will allow people to test the binary? i don't think others could run a self-signed kext built on one machine, on another, correct? so would a developer license allow others to test a binary built on my machine, assuming they're x86? my hope is that the developer program would allow me to test the binaries and solicit input from enthusiast mac pro owners WORLD WIDE. i them hope to create a new program that will give us the wealth mixers/controls this fantastic line is capable of providing.
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Nov ’23
iOS cpu/gpu/battery temperature readings
Good day! I'm interested in if there is any way to query CPU/GPU/Battery temperature values on recent iOS systems? I've tried to search forums for "cpu temp", "ios temperature", "battery temperature" etc., but didn't find anything. There was only mentioned some old private API which was supposed to work somehow for iOS<10. All the examples I've found didn't even compile. All the requests and suggestions are pretty old and seems irrelevant. So I decided to bump this topic. Are there any updates? Any hints and suggestions are highly appreciated! Best regards!
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Oct ’23
Check whether there has been any iOS SDK framework or program that support developing a custom driver for our own hardware device via USB type C port (after the release of the new iPhone 15 with type C port supported)
I'd like to check whether there has been (or there will be) any iOS SDK framework or program that support developing a custom driver for our own hardware device via USB type C port, especially after the release of the new iPhone 15 with type C port supported. In addition, I'd like to understand how the app review process will work if we're releasing a Crypto Wallet application that utilizes the cold wallet hardware device, will it be necessary for us to send a set of hardware over to the Apple review team, or the app review can be arranged without the actual device?
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Oct ’23
Using DriverKit to simulate graphics tablet input
Hi, My goal is to enable this project https://github.com/evidlo/remarkable_mouse to provide native tablet inputs with full information to applications on MacOS, allowing me to reuse my reMarkable tablet for the computer instead of having to buy yet another device, such as a Wacom tablet or an iPad Pro for sidecar when the necessary hardware is already in my posession. I would like to understand whether it is possible to use DriverKit in order to simulate a graphics tablet input device with extra inputs such as pressure and tilt in user-space. Or is this something where IOKit or other comes into play, requiring the creation of a kernel space driver? In either case, what would be the right steps to take? How would I create a virtual device and what are the limitations? If you have the knowledge, how complex would you consider this project to be? The path should basically be some inter-process communication from remarkable_mouse, possibly file-based, triggering tablet events through the driver. At least in the first stage. I assume better performance would be achieved if the whole system was self-contained but porting the reMarkable communication is another challenge on its own. I am experienced developing in other environments but MacOS and driver development are fairly new to me. I've read through the documentation on how to handle the tablet events but creating them seems much murkier. I have searched around for this specific topic without getting much. An open-source tablet driver would be a great place to start but sadly I found none. I've also inquired with ChatGPT but only got high level tips and pseudocode. Any help is greatly appreciated, thank you!
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Oct ’23
getting device manufacturer name and device serial number programatically in mac
Hi, I am an absolute beginner at IOKit registry and have a usecase to obtain the device manufacturer name, device serial number and device USB vendor name progrmatically. I m able to obtain the same using ioreg command but I wanted to get these values within my program. Thanks in advance. Device serial number: ioreg -rd1 -c IOPlatformExpertDevice | grep 'IOPlatformSerialNumber' Device manufacturer name: ioreg -rd1 -c IOPlatformExpertDevice | grep 'manufacturer' USB device vendor names: ioreg -rd1 -c IOUSBHostDevice | grep "USB Vendor Name"
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Oct ’23
External Accessory Deprecated?
Will the External accessory get deprecated, or is it deprecated now?Please reply as the same features are not provided by CoreBluetooth, when connecting with Bluetooth Classic devices.
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Sep ’23
Restore dext settings on startup
Dear Sirs, I've written a driver extension that can be configured through a user mode application. Now when the system reboots I'd like to start the dext again with the latest configuration right from the beginning and before the user mode applications is started (if it is started at all). What is the recommended way to do this and is there an example available? Should I do this using configuration files and through a special file API inside the dext or is there a kind of registry, or should I use sysctl variables and sysctlbyname? Thanks and best regards, Johannes
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