![]() ![]() ![]() # Bus 002 Device 002: ID 05f3:00ff PI Engineering, Inc. # Set permissions for USB footpedal Infinity IN-USB-1 Finally, after I got permissions issues (the error message suggested I run sudo chmod a+r /dev/usb/hiddev0 footpedal, which didn’t seem to work) I followed Jason Barnett’s and Richard Steffan’s advice and set up a udev rule:.I edited the script following Phillip Goodfellow’s instructions.Ī finding the script: # which footpedal -> /usr/bin/footpedalī editing that script to comment out lines 119-126:ġ19 # Check whether your notification agent supportġ25 # self.reusable_t_timeout(1000) Users of Dictation Buddy v4.0 and Transcription Buddy v4. After installation, the script didn’t work immediately. Both Transcription Buddy and Dictation Buddy support the Infinity USB foot pedal from VEC Electronics.First, I installed the lovely Footpedal GNOME integration control, which sadly seems a bit dormant.Getting the foot pedal working in Linux (Mint 14) was a minor mission, so I thought I’d document it for anyone else doing the same: However, this set-up did have some Rachmaninoff problems – requiring hand contortion to control audio, with attendant RSI/CTS-baiting effects that often resulted in sore wrists during transcription binges. It does make a tremendous difference not to have to constantly move one’s fingers from keyboard to mouse and back, although I had mitigated this considerably by using a thinkpad external keyboard with a trackpoint. ![]() I picked this Infinity USB-2 pedal up from ebay for $30. John Heritage told me to go buy a foot pedal. It was written in 2013 so the software is *very* out of date and I doubt I’ll able to help you if it goes wrong. UPDATE 2: Please do not follow the instructions on this blog and expect them to work. It’s a great piece of software and well worth the modest price. UPDATE: I have subsequently found that transcribe works beautifully well and comes with some great pedal drivers. ![]()
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