USB device changes using udev and D-Bus
- by kicsyromy
I am trying to get a list of currently plugged in USB devices in Ubuntu 10.10 and monitor changes that happen, like devices being plugged in or out using udev and D-Bus.
I'm fairly new to programming using D-Bus. I saw one example: "Linux: How to detect is usb keyboard is plugged and unplugged". Problem is that it uses HAL and I know that HAL is deprecated.
I found some working code, but it's working only with storage devices such as USB sticks, media players or CD-ROM drives. I want the whole thing: mice, keyboards, USB cameras, chargers; anything that is plugged in to the USB.
How can I listen D-Bus events for any USB device plug and unplug?
This is basically what I have now (also):
import dbus
import gobject
from dbus.mainloop.glib import DBusGMainLoop
def device_added_callback(device):
print 'Device %s was added' % (device)
def device_changed_callback(device):
print 'Device %s was changed' % (device)
#must be done before connecting to DBus
DBusGMainLoop(set_as_default=True)
bus = dbus.SystemBus()
proxy = bus.get_object("org.freedesktop.UDisks",
"/org/freedesktop/UDisks")
iface = dbus.Interface(proxy, "org.freedesktop.UDisks.Device")
devices = iface.get_dbus_method('EnumerateDevices')()
print '%s' % (devices)
#addes two signal listeners
iface.connect_to_signal('DeviceAdded', device_added_callback)
iface.connect_to_signal('DeviceChanged', device_changed_callback)
#start the main loop
mainloop = gobject.MainLoop()
mainloop.run()
