wie have a 3m microtouch display. Its connected to my debian system via usb and recongnized as human interface (hid). I am trying to access and push realtime information... if its getting touched I want to know where (x,y) and pipe it throught netcat to another host.
Unfortunately I am only able to get raw data using
cat /dev/input/event2 | hexdump
or
evtest
You get hexcode that seem nowhere documented...
Does anybody have a clue how to get those information? There must be a way to extract it from the hexcode. Unfortunately I have no idea how to interpret the hexcode. I couldnt find any source where its documented...
Is there a way the Kernel could provide me those desired information in realtime? As a workarround is there maybe a solution Where the X-Server could tell me? The touchscreen behaves like a mouse in X. I actually allready tried to get x,y-position of the mouse via xlib. But it was too slow and wouldnt tell me if somebody is touching or not...
thanks in advance!
evtest sample output:
Event: time 1425319271.595631, type 3 (EV_ABS), code 57 (ABS_MT_TRACKING_ID), value 51
Event: time 1425319271.595631, type 3 (EV_ABS), code 53 (ABS_MT_POSITION_X), value 10304
Event: time 1425319271.595631, type 3 (EV_ABS), code 54 (ABS_MT_POSITION_Y), value 30629
Event: time 1425319271.595631, type 3 (EV_ABS), code 48 (ABS_MT_TOUCH_MAJOR), value 893
Event: time 1425319271.595631, type 3 (EV_ABS), code 49 (ABS_MT_TOUCH_MINOR), value 414
Event: time 1425319271.595631, type 1 (EV_KEY), code 330 (BTN_TOUCH), value 1
Event: time 1425319271.595631, type 3 (EV_ABS), code 0 (ABS_X), value 10304
Event: time 1425319271.595631, type 3 (EV_ABS), code 1 (ABS_Y), value 30629
Event: time 1425319271.595631, -------------- SYN_REPORT ------------
Event: time 1425319271.601632, type 3 (EV_ABS), code 53 (ABS_MT_POSITION_X), value 10306
Event: time 1425319271.601632, type 3 (EV_ABS), code 54 (ABS_MT_POSITION_Y), value 30625
Event: time 1425319271.601632, type 3 (EV_ABS), code 48 (ABS_MT_TOUCH_MAJOR), value 962
Event: time 1425319271.601632, type 3 (EV_ABS), code 49 (ABS_MT_TOUCH_MINOR), value 421
Event: time 1425319271.601632, type 3 (EV_ABS), code 47 (ABS_MT_SLOT), value 1
Event: time 1425319271.601632, type 3 (EV_ABS), code 57 (ABS_MT_TRACKING_ID), value 52
Event: time 1425319271.601632, type 3 (EV_ABS), code 53 (ABS_MT_POSITION_X), value 15416
Event: time 1425319271.601632, type 3 (EV_ABS), code 54 (ABS_MT_POSITION_Y), value 24159
Event: time 1425319271.601632, type 3 (EV_ABS), code 48 (ABS_MT_TOUCH_MAJOR), value 649
Event: time 1425319271.601632, type 3 (EV_ABS), code 49 (ABS_MT_TOUCH_MINOR), value 354
Event: time 1425319271.601632, type 3 (EV_ABS), code 0 (ABS_X), value 10306
Event: time 1425319271.601632, type 3 (EV_ABS), code 1 (ABS_Y), value 30625
Event: time 1425319271.601632, -------------- SYN_REPORT ------------
Event: time 1425319271.606626, type 3 (EV_ABS), code 47 (ABS_MT_SLOT), value 0
Event: time 1425319271.606626, type 3 (EV_ABS), code 53 (ABS_MT_POSITION_X), value 10318
Event: time 1425319271.606626, type 3 (EV_ABS), code 54 (ABS_MT_POSITION_Y), value 30609
Event: time 1425319271.606626, type 3 (EV_ABS), code 48 (ABS_MT_TOUCH_MAJOR), value 1014
Event: time 1425319271.606626, type 3 (EV_ABS), code 49 (ABS_MT_TOUCH_MINOR), value 426
Event: time 1425319271.606626, type 3 (EV_ABS), code 47 (ABS_MT_SLOT), value 1
Event: time 1425319271.606626, type 3 (EV_ABS), code 54 (ABS_MT_POSITION_Y), value 24161
Event: time 1425319271.606626, type 3 (EV_ABS), code 48 (ABS_MT_TOUCH_MAJOR), value 681
Event: time 1425319271.606626, type 3 (EV_ABS), code 49 (ABS_MT_TOUCH_MINOR), value 376
Event: time 1425319271.606626, type 3 (EV_ABS), code 0 (ABS_X), value 10318
Event: time 1425319271.606626, type 3 (EV_ABS), code 1 (ABS_Y), value 30609
Event: time 1425319271.606626, -------------- SYN_REPORT ------------
Event: time 1425319271.611629, type 3 (EV_ABS), code 47 (ABS_MT_SLOT), value 0
Event: time 1425319271.611629, type 3 (EV_ABS), code 53 (ABS_MT_POSITION_X), value 10320
Event: time 1425319271.611629, type 3 (EV_ABS), code 54 (ABS_MT_POSITION_Y), value 30605
Event: time 1425319271.611629, type 3 (EV_ABS), code 48 (ABS_MT_TOUCH_MAJOR), value 1053
Event: time 1425319271.611629, type 3 (EV_ABS), code 49 (ABS_MT_TOUCH_MINOR), value 430
Event: time 1425319271.611629, type 3 (EV_ABS), code 47 (ABS_MT_SLOT), value 1
Event: time 1425319271.611629, type 3 (EV_ABS), code 48 (ABS_MT_TOUCH_MAJOR), value 705
Event: time 1425319271.611629, type 3 (EV_ABS), code 49 (ABS_MT_TOUCH_MINOR), value 392
Event: time 1425319271.611629, type 3 (EV_ABS), code 0 (ABS_X), value 10320
Event: time 1425319271.611629, type 3 (EV_ABS), code 1 (ABS_Y), value 30605
Console-based solution
You can obtain parsed coordinates using
evtest
tool.If you only need single-touch coordinates: look for
ABS_X
andABS_Y
fields:If you need multi-touch coordinates:
ABS_MT_SLOT
represents number of fingerABS_MT_POSITION_X
andABS_MT_POSITION_Y
-- coordinatesFinger #0:
Finger #1:
For example, if you need to send single-touch coordinates via network, you can use script like this:
Program-based solution
You can write C application that will read your event file. Obtained binary data can be easily interpreted, see section 5 in kernel documentation. You can wait for next data portion using
select()
syscall.Coordinates units
First of all you need to know next things:
[x=0;y=0]
)This information usually can be found in driver code for your device.
This is the driver for your device.
So it seems like you need to divide your axis value from
evtest
by 65535 and multiply it by width or height of device (in pixels). For example, if you get X=30000, and width of your LCD panel is 1080 pixels, you need to do: