Copyright 2022 Erkki Seppälä erkki.seppala@vincit.fi

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• midihidi

midihidi converts a MIDI keyboard to a regular evdev-supported one by reading MIDI data (via Jack or the Jack layer of PipeWire) and providing them via /dev/uinput to /dev/input/event?. This provides the ability to enter keyboard input to any Linux application, including virtual consoles.

• Setup

You need to arrange both Jack/PipeWire and uinput to be accessible by the sabme user. Most easily this can be achieved by changing to ownership of /dev/uinput to have the same user id as your current user id:

sudo chown $USER /dev/uinput

The best alternative would be to have special user that is able to access the device via ownership or group ownership, and also able to interact with the user's media. I haven't yet tried how to make this happen..

• Usage