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The goal is to connect a mouse to my raspberry Pi, and have it connected to a computer (both linux and windows will be used). I want to have a LED light up whenever I use a right mouse click. So the input would be mouse -> raspberry -> computer. Where I want the raspberry to have a led light up on certain actions.

Ideally I'd be able to configure this for not only certain mouse actions, but also keyboard.

Thing is, I have no idea where to start. Or if it is even remotely possible at all. Most challenging thing I can imagine is connecting the pi as a input peripheral. So any advice is greatly appriciated.

EDIT: Ideally the Pi would be connected as an actual USB device with a USB cable. This is to best imitate a mouse/keyboard and it's latencies.

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    Why are you trying to do this? Why spend $35 to emulate a $5 mouse?
    – Steve Robillard
    Commented Mar 8, 2016 at 12:23
  • Goal is to have a visual LED indicator for certain actions. With this and a high speed camera I want to do some testing on latencies. So I want to measure the time between the LED lighting up, and an action happening on screen. Also why use an overly expencive pi 2? becouse I have one laying around, and as a microprocessor board with output pins it seemed like it could do the job.
    – Downquark
    Commented Mar 8, 2016 at 12:33
  • It would also be a great surveillance device like the FBI used on that mobster when they couldn't crack his PGP.
    – SDsolar
    Commented May 19, 2017 at 9:26

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Following the approach given in the question mouse -> raspberry -> computer, one solution could be to emulate an HID (Human Interface Device) with the Pi when connecting to the computer. So the Pi picks up all input coming from the mouse/keyboard, gets the info it needs (the certain action you intend to act upon), and relays all the input to the other computer faking to be a HID using it's GPIO ports.

See here (to not repeat what's written there):

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You cannot do this directly because the Pi's USB port was occupied.

However you can use Arduino Leonardo with some SPI-to-USB-Host chip here.

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Here is what you need USB over IP. Your RPi will run Linux and do the thing =)

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  • Whilst this may theoretically answer the question, it would be preferable to include the essential parts of the answer here, and provide the link for reference.
    – Steve Robillard
    Commented Mar 8, 2016 at 13:13
  • @SteveRobillard a link is provided. I know and I've been reading the fine manual, but this question is literally has a one-line answer. Why don;t you take a look at the official website of the project I've recommended?
    – Alexey Vesnin
    Commented Mar 8, 2016 at 14:27
  • This looks indeed very promising, and like a good solution. I am slightly worried about network latency though. Initially my idea was to use the RPi as an actual USB, so with a cable, to best imitate an actual mouse. although I notice I did not explicitly mention this in my question, for which my apologies. I edited my question to include this. I will go with this if no USB sollution arises though.
    – Downquark
    Commented Mar 8, 2016 at 14:55
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    The issue is that without including the pertinent details here your answer is only good as long as that link is functional.
    – Steve Robillard
    Commented Mar 8, 2016 at 15:08
  • @SteveRobillard the issue is, that if a whole project I'm referring to will go down with their website, then an answer will be useless, indeed. But it's not a reason to include the whole source code, right?
    – Alexey Vesnin
    Commented Mar 8, 2016 at 17:26

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