USB Virtual Serial port to HID compliant joystick converter/driver

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I have a device connected to my pc USB port that I communicate with via a virtual serial port driver. This works fine and I can receive and transmit back and forth using hyperterminal. What I would like to do is convert serial message strings to appear as HID compliant joystick messages via a converter or driver to work with windows applications and games but I just can't find much on the subject. Does anybody have any experience with this kind of thing? any help would be very much appreciated ...

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Posted 3-Sep-11 14:20pm

scott d hopkins

Updated 3-Sep-11 17:48pm

Dr.Walt Fair, PE

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Dr.Walt Fair, PE 3-Sep-11 23:49pm

Fixed formatting.

scott d hopkins 4-Sep-11 7:27am

I have a VB application for reading the virtual serial port but what I want to do is place data into the HID compliant joystick buffer similar to what you can do with sendkeys object ... have you done this before?

advancedansh 13-Sep-11 3:38am

if You Had application to read virtual port then pls give me link

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You can do the same as hyperterminal by opening a COM port in c#.

Check the following link here for a sample application.

Posted 3-Sep-11 19:56pm

Mehdi Gholam

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scott d hopkins 4-Sep-11 7:27am

I have a VB application for reading the virtual serial port but what I want to do is place data into the HID compliant joystick buffer similar to what you can do with sendkeys object ... have you done this before?

Mehdi Gholam 4-Sep-11 22:42pm

Sadly not your particular case.

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scott d hopkins · Accepted Answer · 2011-09-13T01:57:00

OK,

Well if you dig long enough you just might find what you are looking for! PPJoy seems to be a kind of solution ... PPJoy has an application for a virtual parallel port joystick driver and when you hook on the PPJoyCom serial port streamer then you actual get a method of sending serial bytes through the USB virtual serial port driver to create a working joystick! and it works! I connected some buttons and a pot to my external control board and created some buttons and a joystick, then calibrated through windows games controller.

The link I used for the download was http://www.mediafire.com/?6xxj9egxjy4[^]

and many thanks to all those who offered their suggestions ...

Regards

Scott