The evemu library and tools are used to describe devices, record data, create devices and replay data from kernel evdev devices.
Discussions and development of evemu happens on the mailing list
input-tools@lists.freedesktop.org
http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/input-tools
Please submit signed-off git-formatted patches with a subject prefix of "PATCH evemu" to this list. The prefix can be set up by running
git config --add format.subjectprefix "PATCH evemu"
in the git repository.
Please report bugs in the bugzilla component at freedesktop.org
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=evemu
evemu produces two different data formats, one for the device description and one for the device event data. hex data is without a 0x prefix.
# EVEMU 1.3
# comments start with a # character and go to the end of the line
N: <device name>
I: <bustype (hex)> <vendor (hex)> <product (hex)> <version (hex)>
--- for each kernel property (2.3.38 only) ---
P: <byte 0 (hex)> <byte 1 (hex)> ... <byte 7 (hex)>
P: <byte 8 (hex)> ...
--- for each index from 0 to EV_CNT ---
B: <index (hex)> <byte 0 (hex)> <byte 1 (hex)> ... <byte 7 (hex)>
B: <index (hex)> <byte 8 (hex)> ...
--- for each absolute axis ---
A: <index (hex)> <min> <max> <fuzz> <flat> <resolution>
--- for each LED ---
L: <index (hex)> <state>
--- for each switch ---
S: <index (hex)> <state>
The first line is a special comment and taken to describe the file format version. It is always comment character (#), space, "EVEMU", space, followed by a numeric version number in the format major.minor. If the line is missing, file format 1.0 is assumed.
If L and S are missing, the state of each LED/switch is 0
minor version numbers are additions of new fields, or alterations of a field. major version numbers are large redesigns of the format
Current file format versions supported:
- 1.0 - comments may only be present at the top of the file, before any data
- 1.1 - comments may be present at any line of the file, including at the end of a line
- 1.2 - abs axis information has the resolution appended
- 1.3 - LED/switch state added
E: <sec>.<usec> <evtype (hex)> <evcode (hex)> <ev value>
where type, code and value are the respective fields of the input_event struct defined in linux/input.h
evemu description files may include comments, prefixed by the # character. Comments may appear on their own in an otherwise empty line, or may be appended to lines holding data. For example, both of these comments are valid:
# next line is for ABS_FOO
A: 1 3 4 5 6 7 # ABS_FOO
Comments are not recognized in the device name line, as a # may be part of the device's name. Thus
N: foo # bar
describes a device with the name "foo # bar"
- Copyright (C) 2010 Henrik Rydberg rydberg@euromail.se
- Copyright (C) 2010 Canonical Ltd.
- Copyright (C) 2013-2015 Red Hat, Inc.