Egor Zindy wrote:
Dear List,

This one is way beyond my comprehension skills, I just don't understand what I'm doing wrong.

I am trying to read the chipid from an FTDI chip based USB key (DLP-D, http://www.ftdichip.com/Products/EvaluationKits/DLP-D.htm ), using:

- the ftd2xx module http://pypi.python.org/pypi/ftd2xx/0.1
- the ftd2xx.dll which comes with the driver install
- the chipid dll (1.1.0) from here: http://www.ftdichip.com/Projects/FTDIChip-ID.htm - a ctypes interface I wrote by hand (only 7 functions to wrap, I thought it'd be easy!)

The ftd2xx is used for testing, to open / close the device.

My Problem is that neither of the following two wrapped functions (with the exact same arguments) return the right result (full chipid.py library attached):

   def FTID_GetDeviceLocationID(DeviceIndex):
       n = DWORD()
status = ftchipid.FTID_GetDeviceLocationID(DeviceIndex, ctypes.byref(n))

       if status != FTID_SUCCESS:
           raise DeviceError,FTID_GetErrorCodeString("EN",status)

       return n.value

   def FTID_GetDeviceChipID(DeviceIndex):
       n = DWORD()
status = ftchipid.FTID_GetDeviceChipID(DeviceIndex, ctypes.byref(n))

       if status != FTID_SUCCESS:
           raise DeviceError,FTID_GetErrorCodeString("EN",status)

       return n.value

* On my machine (XP, 32 bits), if I plug two keys in, I can get the device chip id from the device with index=1. The one with index=0 always gives the message "Invalid device handle."
* I get the wrong location id as well, 0 instead of 0x21...
* the FTID_GetNumDevices function also uses a byref, c_ulong and works.
* FTDI's win32 console example returns the right results (and uses c unsigned longs) - available from http://www.ftdichip.com/Projects/FTDIChip-ID.htm

Any help appreciated!

Regards,
Egor


#!/usr/bin/env python

"""
A generic chipid library based on ctypes

This module handles most of the functions in FTChipID.dll

PROBLEM:
    FTID_GetDeviceLocationID doesn't work...
    FTID_GetDeviceChipID doesn't work...
    Well, not exactly true.
    Works with 2 devices plugged in and for device with id 1.
    Does not work for device with id 0... What am I doing wrong?!?!?!?!?!?!
    
How does it work?

relies on ctypes and ftchipid.dll, was only tested in windows XP
the chipid dll (1.1.0) from here: 
http://www.ftdichip.com/Projects/FTDIChip-ID.htm
for testing, need the the ftd2xx module http://pypi.python.org/pypi/ftd2xx/0.1
and the ftd2xx.dll, which comes with the driver install


The latest version of this file is stored in my google code repository:
    http://code.google.com/p/ezwidgets/

Copyright (c) 2008 Egor Zindy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Released under the MIT licence.
"""
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__author__ = "Egor Zindy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>"
__copyright__ = "Copyright (c) 2008 Egor Zindy"
__license__ = "MIT"
__version__ = "0.1"
__date= "2008-07-10"
__status__ = "Alpha"

import ctypes
import ctypes.wintypes
import sys

STRING = ctypes.c_char_p

if sys.platform == 'win32':
    DWORD = ctypes.wintypes.DWORD
else:
    DWORD = ctypes.c_ulong

#calling the dll
ftchipid=ctypes.windll.ftchipid

class DeviceError(Exception):
    """Exception class for status messages"""
    def __init__(self, value):
        self.value = value

    def __str__(self):
        return repr(self.value)

def FTID_GetNumDevices():
    n = DWORD()
    status = ftchipid.FTID_GetNumDevices(ctypes.byref(n))

    if status != FTID_SUCCESS:
        raise DeviceError,FTID_GetErrorCodeString("EN",status)

    return n.value

def FTID_GetDeviceSerialNumber(DeviceIndex):
    s = ctypes.create_string_buffer(256)
    status = ftchipid.FTID_GetDeviceSerialNumber(DeviceIndex, s, 256)

    if status != FTID_SUCCESS:
        raise DeviceError,FTID_GetErrorCodeString("EN",status)

    return s.value

def FTID_GetDeviceLocationID(DeviceIndex):
    n = DWORD()
    status = ftchipid.FTID_GetDeviceLocationID(DeviceIndex, ctypes.byref(n))

    if status != FTID_SUCCESS:
        raise DeviceError,FTID_GetErrorCodeString("EN",status)

    return n.value

def FTID_GetDeviceChipID(DeviceIndex):
    n = DWORD()
    status = ftchipid.FTID_GetDeviceChipID(DeviceIndex, ctypes.byref(n))

    if status != FTID_SUCCESS:
        raise DeviceError,FTID_GetErrorCodeString("EN",status)

    return n.value

def FTID_GetDeviceDescription(DeviceIndex):
    s = ctypes.create_string_buffer(256)
    status = ftchipid.FTID_GetDeviceDescription(DeviceIndex, s, 256)

    if status != FTID_SUCCESS:
        raise DeviceError,FTID_GetErrorCodeString("EN",status)

    return s.value

def FTID_GetDllVersion():
    s = ctypes.create_string_buffer(256)
    status = ftchipid.FTID_GetDllVersion(s, 256)

    if status != FTID_SUCCESS:
        raise DeviceError,FTID_GetErrorCodeString("EN",status)

    return s.value 

def FTID_GetErrorCodeString(lpLanguage, ErrorCode):
    sl = STRING(lpLanguage)
    s = ctypes.create_string_buffer(256)
    status = ftchipid.FTID_GetErrorCodeString(sl,ErrorCode,s,256)

    return s.value

#ChipID errors...
FTID_SUCCESS = 0
FTID_INVALID_HANDLE = 1
FTID_DEVICE_NOT_FOUND = 2
FTID_DEVICE_NOT_OPENED = 3
FTID_IO_ERROR = 4
FTID_INSUFFICIENT_RESOURCES = 5

FTID_BUFER_SIZE_TOO_SMALL = 20
FTID_PASSED_NULL_POINTER = 21
FTID_INVALID_LANGUAGE_CODE = 22
FTID_INVALID_STATUS_CODE = 0xFFFFFFFF

#testing...
if __name__ == '__main__':
    import ftd2xx
    device = ftd2xx.open()

    if 1:
        print "\nDll version",
        v = FTID_GetDllVersion()
        print v

    n = FTID_GetNumDevices()
    print "\nNumber of devices:",n

    for i in range(n):
        if 0:
            print "\nChip ID:",
            v = FTID_GetDeviceChipID(i)
            print i,"0x%08lX" % v

        if 1:
            print "\nLocation ID:",
            v = FTID_GetDeviceLocationID(i)
            print i,"0x%08lX" % v

        if 1:
            print "\nSerial number:",
            v = FTID_GetDeviceSerialNumber(i)
            print i,v

        if 1:
            print "\nDescription:",
            v = FTID_GetDeviceDescription(i)
            print i,v

    device.close()

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