rasteri / hidman

Adapting USB devices to work on old computers

HIDman

USB HID to PS/2 converter

This is a project to develop a device to adapt USB HID devices (keyboards, mice, joysticks) to work on PCs that support PS/2 devices.

Currently only PS/2 computers are supported but plans are underway to support computers that require serial mice and XT keyboards.

As a bonus, it allows you to connect a USB game controller and have it emulate a PS/2 keyboard and mouse - this allows you to use a gamepad to play games that never had joystick support.

Technical description

The HIDman is based around the CH559 from WCH, a remarkably flexible chip with two USB HOST ports. This makes it ideal for our purposes.

The code is forked from atc1441's excellent repository - https://github.com/atc1441/CH559sdccUSBHost

PCB and enclosure was designed in KiCad - source files are in the hardware directory.

Development is very active but it is usable in its current state.

hidman's Issues

hat switches not implemented

Collaboration request for Gamepad/Joystick to UART

Hi, I found your repository. I was working on a similar project, however to convert USB gamepads and joysticks to a specific UART protocol (SERaero) in order o use it to control RC models. I paid a developer to adapt the UART output to the SERaero, however it is not perfect and the guy has no more time. I‘m not a coder, so looking for others working on the CH559. Would you be interested to join the projects?

Backslash key not working on UK keyboards

Sometimes stops working after PC reboots

What enclosure are you using for the original PS/2 version?

What enclosure are you using for the original PS/2 version?

It looks like a Hammond case similar to your weeCee case but I'm not sure.

Thanks for the help!

EDIT: I think it might be the Hammond 1455D602BK?

lol mouse buttons doesnt work

How to build from source?

Hello, thanks for sharing, but I can´t get the source compiled under Linux or Windows.

make
sdcc -c -V -mmcs51 --model-large --stack-auto --xram-size 0x1600 --xram-loc 0x0200 --code-size 0xEFFF -I/ -DFREQ_SYS=48000000 -DBOARD_AXP -DOPT_DEFAULT -o build/main.rel main.c

• F:\SDCC\bin\sdcpp.exe -nostdinc -Wall -std=c11 -I"/" -D"FREQ_SYS=48000000" -D"BOARD_AXP" -D"OPT_DEFAULT" -obj-ext=.rel -D__SDCC_STACK_AUTO -D__SDCC_CHAR_UNSIGNED -D__SDCC_MODEL_LARGE -D__SDCC_INT_LONG_REENT -D__SDCC_FLOAT_REENT -D__SDCC=3_6_0 -D__SDCC_VERSION_MAJOR=3 -D__SDCC_VERSION_MINOR=6 -D__SDCC_VERSION_PATCH=0 -DSDCC=360 -D__SDCC_REVISION=9615 -D__SDCC_mcs51 -D__STDC_NO_COMPLEX__=1 -D__STDC_NO_THREADS__=1 -D__STDC_NO_ATOMICS__=1 -D__STDC_NO_VLA__=1 -D__STDC_ISO_10646__=201409L -D__STDC_UTF_16__=1 -D__STDC_UTF_32__=1 -isystem "F:\SDCC\bin..\include\mcs51" -isystem "F:\SDCC\bin..\include" "main.c"
  main.c:163: syntax error: token -> 'uint32_t' ; column 12
  main.c:169: syntax error: token -> 'uint8_t' ; column 11
  main.c:183: syntax error: token -> 'uint8_t' ; column 15
  (tons of other errors)

Versions:
SDCC -v
SDCC : mcs51/z80/z180/r2k/r3ka/gbz80/tlcs90/ds390/TININative/ds400/hc08/s08/stm8 3.5.0 #9253 (Apr 3 2018) (Linux)
SDCC : mcs51/z80/z180/r2k/r3ka/gbz80/tlcs90/ds390/pic16/pic14/TININative/ds400/hc08/s08/stm8 3.6.0 #9615 (MINGW32)

Thanks

Possible to output combined keyboard and mouse? (re: weeCee PS/2 input)

Thanks for the excellent project!

Would you consider adding a feature (to both the 'legacy' PS2 and newer AXP versions) to output both keyboard and mouse on a single PS/2 cable? For example, your weeCee only has a single PS/2 input and requires both signals on the same cable.

Thanks!

Hidman usb to Amiga

hi,

how can i implement your project to amiga, thanx

Intellimouse features not implemented

Correct orientation for the LED?

Sorry to bother you again... Can you confirm this is the correct orientation for the LED? (green dot towards PCB)