Karabiner-VirtualHIDDevice

Karabiner-VirtualHIDDevice is a virtual HID device driver for macOS.

• A virtual keyboard device implementation for macOS.
  • Keyboard/Keypad Usage Page is supported.
  • Consumer Usage Page is supported.
  • AppleVendor Usage Page (fn key, Mission Control key, Launchpad key, etc.) is supported.
• A virtual pointing device (mouse) implementation for macOS.

Supported systems

• macOS Sierra (10.12)
• macOS High Sierra (10.13)
• macOS Mojave (10.14)
• macOS Catalina (10.15)

How to build

System requirements:

• macOS 10.13
• Xcode 8.3.3 (required for macOS 10.12 support)
• Command Line Tools for Xcode

Step 1: Getting source code

Clone the source from github.

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/pqrs-org/Karabiner-VirtualHIDDevice.git

Step 2: Building a package

cd Karabiner-VirtualHIDDevice
make

The make script will create a redistributable kext into dist directory.

Example

• example/virtual_keyboard_example
• example/virtual_pointing_example

Usage

Execute the following instructions in Terminal.

1. Install VirtualHIDDevice.kext by make install in the top directory.
2. cd example/virtual_pointing_example
3. make
4. make run

Acknowledgments

• Karabiner-VirtualHIDDevice uses the Vendor ID and Product ID from Objective Development. https://github.com/obdev/v-usb/blob/master/usbdrv/USB-IDs-for-free.txt