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HID2AMI HOW TO SUBMIT AN HID DUMP

PREREQUISITES

In order to submit an useful dump to the author, a minimal setup comprise:

  • A windows OS machine
  • Free USB Tree View tool USBTREEVIEW
  • For advanced analysis: USBLyzer software (free trial can be d/loaded from HERE)

INSTRUCTIONS for USBTREEVIEW

    1. Plug the peripheral device you want the HID information dumped in a free USB socket on your MS Windows PC
    1. Launch UsbTreeView
    1. In the left pane, highlight select the device you want to dump (e.g Logitech USB Wheel Mouse in the example pic below)
    1. Wait until the right pane is populated (fraction of seconds)
    1. Press Right Mouse Button (of your PC's mouse) and select "Copy Report From Here"
    1. Paste the result within a text file, name it (the file) something like "xxxx.Mouse.HID.dump.txt"
    1. Send the file to the author

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INSTRUCTIONS for USBLYZER

    1. Download and install USBLyzer free trial version
    1. Plug the peripheral device you want the HID information dumped in a free USB socket on your MS Windows PC
    1. Launch USBlyzer
    1. In the left pane, highlight select the device you want to dump
    1. Look at the "USB Properties" pane, and save its whole content to text file for submission (Figure 1 below)
    1. Start a capturing session: press "Start Capture" button on the toolbar and USB analyzer software starts monitoring USB traffic going through the selected device. Leave it running for a few seconds, while interacting with your peripheral (e.g. press the buttons, move stick, move mouse - if possible do one thing at a time -)
    1. Stop capturing session, save the recorded data (in a file with *.ulz extension)
    1. Send both the files to the author

Usb Properties pane FIGURE1

Sample USB Properties dump file in text format USBPROP

Capture Pane CAPTURE

Sample Capture "Ulz" file ULZFILE