Smart Remote automatically detected as Microphone on windows

[sguitton01]

Hi all,

I am working on a project starting from the smart remote 3 project. I am now developping an app on Windows hoping to do a real time speech to text. 
Although I only found a tool which take the default microphone on the PC.

So my question is, is there a way for the smart remote to be detected as a microphone on Windows knowing that the VoHoGp on the HID Service is a standard?

Thanks in advance,

Sylvain

[Edvin]

Hello Sylvain,

The reason you don't see the Smart Remote as a microphone on windows is that it is not a standard microphone protocol for BLE. In our smart remote tools there is a driver for ubuntu. This is a driver that we have written. The sound is sent over something called HID Vendor reports, which are vendor specific.

He told me that we don't have this driver/plugin for windows, as devices that use smart remotes are typically not running on windows, but rather Ubuntu or Android.

He did however also say:
This driver: 
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/hid/obtaining-hid-reports-by-user-mode-applications

looks like something that can be used as a starting point. The sound data is sent as HID input reports, which are defined as vendor specific. The function HidD_GetInputReport looks like something that can be used.

So unfortunately, you can't get the smart remote sound data on windows without a bit of work, and we don't have support for it at this point in time, but you may be able to fix it by adopting the driver linked above.

Best regards,

Edvin