I am working on a project which consists primly on detect a usb intrusion and execute some code. So first i need to know how to detect this usb insertion using python 3.6. Thank you
Perhaps something like this: https://github.com/Ming-Shu/How-to-detect-USB-plug-in-on-Windows-using-Python
and already answered here for python specific: How to detect a new usb device is connected on python
On Linux, you would want to be monitoring the mount or devices partitions.
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I want to get the names of the devices connected to my laptop hotspot using python
I searched a lot and I find module like wmi and platform that gives you some system information but I couldn't get the job done by them
First of all, It depends on your OS actually.
For windows;
https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/python-getting-all-the-wifi-devices-the-system-has-connected/
For Linux;
https://pypi.org/project/who-is-on-my-wifi/
I am currently learning Python and I am wondering if I can build an application that can detect other devices using WiFi or nearby Bluetooth scanning.
Its possible to list the devices listening on wifi, but not their location.
I am trying to write a Python script to identify USB devices that did not get auto-mounted correctly in Linux. I am currently using subprocess and calling lsusb to gather the USB devices and then using PyUsb (A libusb 1.0 python wrap library) to find the category of the USB device so I can identify if it is a Mass Storage Media. What I can't figure out is how to bridge the information I have into the mountpoint that belongs to that USB drive. I need a combination of Linux commands that will get me the information I can use to link a mountpoint to a specific USB device so I can use subprocess and some basic parsing to create the script. Or maybe some other way to do this with Python modules I haven't thought of using.
I found a way to do it using information from mount and fdisk. I wrote a python module that encapsulates everything if anyone has the need for something similar: https://github.com/arthurbayerlein/Python/blob/master/storage_media.py
Short version: How do I monitor a USB port's input?
Long version: I wanted to use a console controller for my pc games, but couldn't find a freeware method of doing so that I liked. So I decided to make one myself, as much as a learning exercise as anything else, but I'm not sure how to monitor input on a USB port. I assume that if I can monitor one, it won't be hard to experimentally determine what each input is (A button = 00011 etc) on the keyboard, mouse and controller and then just convince the computer that the controller is a keyboard/mouse by switching whatever is inputted by it to what would have been inputted by one of the other devices.
I tried Google, but no luck. Same with this site. I know some C, C++ and Python but I wouldn't call myself a power user of any of them, part of the reason I'm doing this really. Currently using Windows Vista and Windows 10. Any help getting started would be appreciated.
Try pyusb and you will find examples on how to communicate with USB devices. It seems that the current repository is at GitHub: https://github.com/walac/pyusb
I'm building a backup program which involves detecting when media available for backup is inserted. I've looked into detecting the insertion of backup media, and I'm going to use the file system watch service inotify on the /media/username directory.
The problem is that I've looked into this directory and there are folders that don't represent any currently available medium. How can I detect the list of currently available mediums (USBs, HDDs) and watch for any future ones? More technically, what are the characteristics of an actively available USB/HDD folder in the /media/username directory?
In Linux, you could use uevents from kernel and start sniffing for "ACTION"="add"
Please check the following links:
http://lwn.net/Articles/242046/
and Netlink socket:
http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/online/pages/man7/netlink.7.html
Or use DBUS/HAL API bindings for Python http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-904706.html
Check dmesg messages and see exactly what was attached and to what partition was mounted
P.S.: Here is an example (on SO) of how to do it in Python using DBUS binding:
How can I listen for 'usb device inserted' events in Linux, in Python?
UPDATE
How to check if a path is mounted:
https://serverfault.com/questions/143084/how-can-i-check-whether-a-volume-is-mounted-where-it-is-supposed-to-be-using-pyt
I can detect it rather easily through monitoring the /dev/disks/by-label/ directory.