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Re: USB Panic Button (HACKED!)

Ritzy — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 09:38:58 -0000

All someone needs to do is hook up a few LED's to a USB port, and then use the button to make them light.

It would be more 1337 if it looked like red emergency lights going off every time you save a document(which is the reason why I want to re purpose one of these things)

You see my boss gets upset when his computer crashes(ya, not my fault xp blue screen), because he forgets to save. So I thought of a solution.

Re: USB Panic Button (HACKED!)

hyousuf — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 09:27:22 -0000

I like this post, i just recd this as a christmas gift, with piece of software which you said isnt too good, therefore i started thinking of programming it myself, but couldnt do much as i havent done any sort of port programming, had a few good resources but to no good effect, the links provided here are fab, and now i can make my own application and hopefully will teach me to control more usb hids in future.
thanks again......

Re: USB Panic Button (HACKED!)

Mihai Soare — Mon, 11 May 2009 06:01:10 -0000

Can anyone help me with the software for this product?? i've lost mine

Re: USB Panic Button (HACKED!)

alphaomega — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 16:24:14 -0000

I use this on the server at home: "shutdown -s". Enter this from Start->Run or the command prompt.
If you're program doesn't accept commands like this, you could paste this command into a file and name it with the extension ".bat", run and enjoy.

http://www.computerhope.com... for more on shutdown commands

Re: USB Panic Button (HACKED!)

Daniel — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 09:22:33 -0000

Ive been after a way to get it to shutdown my PC- great youve managed to do it! How do the rest of us do it now :-D

Re: USB Panic Button (HACKED!)

alphaomega — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 02:14:21 -0000

what?

Re: USB Panic Button (HACKED!)

Dude — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 20:02:37 -0000

Now that IS a nice hack... Where's the download, boy, where's the download? Or do you expect me to do your work all over again?

Re: USB Panic Button (HACKED!)

John Bruin — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 11:32:50 -0000

With a little help from Jan Axelson I have created my version of the USB Panic Button software.

http://www.johnbruin.net/in...

I hope you like it and do not make stupid promises anymore in the future...

Re: USB Panic Button (HACKED!)

alphaomega — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 20:22:28 -0000

Thank you for the link.

Re: USB Panic Button (HACKED!)

Jesse — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 18:16:57 -0000

Peace, have code.

http://www.orkey.net/bin/Pa...

Re: USB Panic Button (HACKED!)

alphaomega — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 17:48:33 -0000

Seriously. Don't you have your own blog or site to write in? Link that if you want instead of showing off and trying to prove something.

Re: USB Panic Button (HACKED!)

alphaomega — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 17:46:18 -0000

Thank you for your comments.

And good for you! You have the time to do it. Some people don't have that luxury with their full time jobs, family to attend to, and being rarely home. But what point are you trying to prove? We keep the source for ourselves because we're evil? We withhold the program to piss people off? Seriously, that's childish. Congratulations on your solution, seriously. I'm still building mine, regardless.

Re: USB Panic Button (HACKED!)

Jesse — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 17:41:05 -0000

pity that didn't work so well, but I think from there you can see that the png is found at http://www.orkey.net/pics/p... . Also, the application itself minimizes to system tray after you select an application to run and press "panic" . The main windows just shows what it's doing... again, Jan Axelson's code. I just made it detect the press by continuously reading feature reports and launching an app if it got one.

Code, anyone? Or would you like the binary. :)

Re: USB Panic Button (HACKED!)

Jesse — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 17:38:39 -0000

Re: USB Panic Button (HACKED!)

Jesse — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 17:24:09 -0000

Is that all? I just wanted the $#@! thing to work! I'm sure other people are thinking the same thing. Now, the solution exists, it doesn't involve hijacking windows forms or intercepting window messages with hooks. It just reads the device on a periodic basis, similar to the original program.

Re: USB Panic Button (HACKED!)

Sylverin — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 16:52:10 -0000

Ah yes, but does it look as pretty as ours?

Re: USB Panic Button (HACKED!)

Jesse — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 14:14:32 -0000

Also, mine doesn't require the original Panic Button application to be running. It uses Generic Hid Internals for Windows. No LibUSB stuff, either. Ms. Axelson provided a *wonderful* example!

Re: USB Panic Button (HACKED!)

Jesse — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 14:13:17 -0000

Wonderful, but I just completed a solution using Jan Axelson's Generic USB HID example. Now the question, do I post it or do I hold the code back?

Re: USB Panic Button (HACKED!)

Sylverin — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 21:04:03 -0000

Lol. Is this going to turn out like Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny in that because you can't see them, they don't exist? Alphaomega and Alacarte are both working hard on this. I have seen some of their efforts on this, and I'm genuinely impressed.

Re: USB Panic Button (HACKED!)

Trestle Table — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 19:24:19 -0000

OK.

Re: USB Panic Button (HACKED!)

Jesse — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 17:22:41 -0000

I'm now convinced that this solution doesn't exist.

Re: USB Panic Button (HACKED!)

alphaomega — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 18:09:49 -0000

I agree

Re: USB Panic Button (HACKED!)

pieman — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 15:46:46 -0000

pie

Re: USB Panic Button (HACKED!)

jay — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 19:09:55 -0000

I am also an owner of this useless button, any chance you could assist in providing a test program for me? any assistance is greatly appreciated.

Re: USB Panic Button (HACKED!)

alacarte — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 01:14:11 -0000

Meaning that the original program that comes with the button is already and always running in the background - when the button is pressed, a JPG is spat out. No program running, and the button does nothing.

As for hooking the button straight to your own program - use a USB sniffer and you soon figure out that the original program's method of detecting button presses is plain weird, and possibly very inefficient.