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Check the Browser compatibility table carefully before using this in production.
The opened read only property of the USBDevice interface indicates whether a session has been started with a paired USB device. A device must be opened before it can conrolled by a web page.
var serialNumber = USBDevice.opened
A boolean.
This example is for a hypothetical USB device with a multi-colored LED. It shows how to test that a device is open before calling USBDevice.controlTransferOut to set a specified LED color.
What data can be passed to a USB device and how it is passed is particular and unique to each device.
async setDeviceColor(usbDevice, r, g, b) {
if (device.opened) {
// This hypothetical USB device requires that the data passed to
// it be in a Uint8Array.
let payload = new Uint8Array([r, g, b]);
await usbDevice.controlTransferOut({
requestType: 'vendor',
recipient: 'device',
request: 1,
value: 0,
index: 0,
}, payload);
}
}
| Specification | Status | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| WebUSB The definition of 'opened' in that specification. | Draft | Initial definition. |
| Desktop | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chrome | Edge | Firefox | Internet Explorer | Opera | Safari | |
| Basic support | 61 | No | No | No | 48 | No |
| Mobile | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Android webview | Chrome for Android | Edge Mobile | Firefox for Android | Opera for Android | iOS Safari | Samsung Internet | |
| Basic support | No | 61 | No | No | 48 | No | No |
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