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Changes in v3.0.0:

• Support async usage and keeping the traditional synchronous usage. Thanks to @Julusian for the substantial rewrite work to support this, and for his patience. See #506, #499, #474 for more details.

• device.getDeviceInfo() now returns the same content as provided by HID.devices(). Thx @Julusian! #499

• Use pkg-prebuilds instead of prebuild and prebuild-upload. This means prebuilds are stored in the package for all platforms on npmjs, immediately able to be used, instead of being hosted on Github and pulled down on-demand . Thanks again @Julusian See #507, #490 for details.

• Update to hidapi-0.14.0, which fixes numerous across all the OSes. This update is also in node-hid-v2.2.0

Changes in this release:

• Update hidapi to hidapi-0.14.0 (PR #513 & #509 thx @dsouza95 & @mcuee !)
• Expand getDeviceInfo() to have same info as HID.devices() (PR #499 thx @Julusian!)
• Update prebuild (should fix node-gyp errors when compiling)

node-hid is a thin wrapper over the cross-platform C-library hidapi.

Changes/Fixes in this release:

• Fix Electron 21 not working #486
• Update prebuild and prebuild-install

Node-hid is a thin wrapper over the cross-platform C-library hidapi. The hidapi used in node-hid has been updated to [email protected], which includes many improvements.

Also, node-hid has been tested in Apple Silicon M1 Macs, and prebuilds are generated for them.

Node-hid now uses N-API instead of NAN to bind to hidapi.
This is due to node-abi's continuing issues with reporting the correct ABI for latest Electron & Node releases. The benefit is only one binary per OS now.

Updates in this release:

• Support for Electron v10 and Node v14 (#392, #395)
• Preliminary FreeBSD support (#396)
• Cross-compile flag for setting CFLAGS and LDFLAGS when building with node-gyp (#393)
• More fixes for context-aware / Worker thread use (#389, still ongoing but perhaps fixed)
• Fix to allow use before Node v10

Changes/fixes in this release:

• On Windows, device.on('data',...) event handler now allows process exit if device doesn't send data. This is accomplished by changing the underlying hidapi read from hid_read() to a looping hid_read_timeout(). Addresses issue #358 and others.

• Node Buffers can now be used in device.write() and device.sendFeatureReport(). Allows a >10x speed up for certain types of data sends. See PR #357 (thanks @Julusian!)