Excellent, thanks Damiano! As a quick step you could send the patch over to the DL and I’ll adapt it if needed. Or you could create a merge request, which would be more elegant though require additional steps. --- Ilia Sotnikov
> On Mar 13, 2018, at 21:29, Cesello <cese...@daimonlab.it> wrote: > > Hi Ilia and Jared > I'm just registered to this ML to propose my patch to this back end > driver made in the past weekend. > And I see someone have my same problem :) > I've used hp5590 scanner with scanbuttond for years. Some week ago I've > upgraded my system to debian 9 and > discovered that scanbd does not works anymore with my scanner. I really > need this functionality so I've made > modifications to hp5590.c code to export the options . > Is a first attempt and the backend called by scanbd threads makes > buttons quite responsive > without using a self polling thread. > I've made a patch file for debian 9 stable version package (yes but the > real patch is for hp5590.c only) > If you are interested I can send it (or tell me if I have to release > into the repo directly I'm new user here :)) > > Damiano > >> On 07/03/2018 14:01, hostcc at gmail.com (Ilia Sotnikov) wrote: >> Hi, >> backend author here - it shouldn't be too much of effort to expose >> button status so scanbd can use it. Though haven't gone thru its >> documentation to understand requirements. As a technical insight - >> there is hp5590_read_buttons() function in hp5590_cmds.c that reads >> button status. >> However, I'll seek for a volunteer to test a change as I don't have >> access to HW currently. >> >> On Wed, Mar 7, 2018 at 12:40 AM, Wilhelm Meier >> <wilhelm.wm.meier at googlemail.com> wrote: >>> Please try the old scanbuttond-backend for this type of scanner - it >>> should work. The HP sane backend sadly doesn't support the buttons on >>> this scanner. >>> >>> Am 06.03.2018 um 15:46 schrieb Jared Hedegaard: >>>>> Main question: does the HP 5590 support button presses or am I just >>>>> setting this up incorrectly? >>>>> >>>>> I'm been successful using scanbd with SANE backends to get scanning >>>>> working over my network and locally on the host machine, but I can't seem >>>>> to get it to recognize button presses, either running scanbd in >>>>> foreground or background. >>>>> >>>>> For past testing, it seems that actions defined in scanbd.conf are used >>>>> to tie to the backend options? From searching /var/log/syslog, I expected >>>>> to track button presses or get some sort of trigger feedback, and I >>>>> didn't think I needed an action set up for it. >>>>> >>>>> Any help on this one would be much appreciated. Thanks. >>>>> >>>>> Jared H >>>>> >>>> After a bit more research, it looks like doing this with the SANE backend >>>> for HP 5590 is not possible. scanbd is used to tie custom actions to the >>>> options available on the scanner. In this case, none of the 10 options >>>> seem to return values. They all look to be ones that I designate from some >>>> client software. >>>> >>>> scanbd: found active option[1] tl-x (type: 2) for device >>>> hp5590:libusb:001:008 >>>> scanbd: found active option[2] tl-y (type: 2) for device >>>> hp5590:libusb:001:008 >>>> scanbd: found active option[3] br-x (type: 2) for device >>>> hp5590:libusb:001:008 >>>> scanbd: found active option[4] br-y (type: 2) for device >>>> hp5590:libusb:001:008 >>>> scanbd: found active option[5] mode (type: 3) for device >>>> hp5590:libusb:001:008 >>>> scanbd: found active option[6] source (type: 3) for device >>>> hp5590:libusb:001:008 >>>> scanbd: found active option[7] resolution (type: 1) for device >>>> hp5590:libusb:001:008 scanbd: found active option[8] extend-lamp-timeout >>>> (type: 0) for device hp5590:libusb:001:008 >>>> scanbd: found active option[9] wait-for-button (type: 0) for device >>>> hp5590:libusb:001:008 >>>> scanbd: found active option[10] preview (type: 0) for device >>>> hp5590:libusb:001:008 >>>> >>>> In this case, it looks like I will have to try the old scanbuttond >>>> backends for this, or see if there are optional enhancements for the SANE >>>> hp5590 backend. >>>> >>>> Jared >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> sane-devel mailing list: sane-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org >>> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel >>> Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password" >>> to sane-devel-request at lists.alioth.debian.org >> >> > > > -- > sane-devel mailing list: sane-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel > Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password" > to sane-devel-requ...@lists.alioth.debian.org -- sane-devel mailing list: sane-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password" to sane-devel-requ...@lists.alioth.debian.org
