Mike Harrison said:
I don't know if it's possible to make the FTDI look like a standard HID
device- mouse, keyboard etc.
- I've not seen any mention of this anywhere, but they are usually very
helpful if you email them so
it's worth asking if this is what you want to do.
I've found FTDI's e-mail support responsive but also quite terse... if you ask
them a couple of questions, they're quite likely to only answer the first one,
and not in very much detail at that. Still -- given the responsiveness -- if
you keep on them sooner or later you'll get the information you need.
The other thing I'd note about FTDI is that -- like many companies -- they try
very hard not to directly mention any bugs in their software or hardware.
Instead, their documentation will say things like, "This bit in this register
should be set to 1" -- after just giving a long explanation of what the bit
does when it's 0 as well as 1. What they really mean is, "This bit should be
set to 1, because setting it to 0 doesn't actually work the way it was
intended to. Sorry."
You won't get any of the standard FTDI chips to appear as HID devices. The
flexibility of the parts is nowhere near wide enough to make that happen. As
for drivers, I don't believe drivers for any FTDI chips come on any Windows
installation CDs, although (and this is documented on FTDI's web site) one OEM
started making USB<-->serial converter cables with FTDI's ICs (and default VID
and PID) and went through the whole driver certification process with
Microsoft, so a particular version of the FTDI serial "emulation" driver is
now available on Windows Update. This can cause a problem, however, in that
it's a somewhat old version, so you jump through a few hoops to force Windows
to "do the right thing" if you want to install the latest version of their
drivers.
To the OP: Is there any particular reason you'd like the devices to show up as
HIDs?
---Joel Kolstad