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Wine doesn't support USB. Unless the peripheral connects over a serial or parallel port, you will have to use a virtual machine.
It definitely requires a USB connection between the computer and the Maestro unit. Shoot, didn't know USB was unsupported and was hoping to avoid a VM just due to the extra space required. Looks like I have to though, thanks for the help.
afaik USB can be used for serial, car diag programs often work like that too, so this might not be the problem
The S in USB is serial.
But OP didn't provide much detail on the device, hardware, software, or communication method. A VM is probably easier.
You can be pedantic if you want, but it's pretty obvious OP meant RS232 serial.
Didn't realize this, shoot. The VM will take more space than I really like, but I guess I can remove it when I'm done.
You could try tunneling usb from the host into wine with usbip, but I have a feeling that this wouldn't work
yeah, had the same deal with Xiaomi's unlock tool. no WINE, no VM, bare-metal Windows only. oh yeah, doesn't even work on Ryzens, has to be Intel, like wtfff...
Doesn't work on Ryzens??? Is that recent? Because I did unlock on my Zen+ system just fine back in '22
I unlocked my POCO f4 pro less than year ago on Windows 10 Pro and Ryzen 5 5600X without a hich.
What? My keyboard and mouse both work on wine apps on my desktop Arch system. Although I used Lutris, and not wine on its own.
Software running in Wine is not accessing your mouse or keyboard directly, so it doesn't matter how they are connected as long as they work in Linux.
But you're saying that other external devices will need to access the device directly through USB, and Wine doesn't support the pass-through?
Yes, Wine doesn't support USB passthrough. You would need a VM for that.
Okay, thanks for the warning.