Philips Foot Pedal Driver
Hi Community!
This is a step-by-step Guide, how you can connect a Philips SpeechMike Dictation Device or a Philips Foot Control Pedal to a View Session.
- Page 10 Connect the foot control to a free USB port on the PC. Start the Device Control Center by opening the Windows start menu and selecting Programs Philips Speech Control Philips Device Control Center. Change the function of the pedals according to your preferences.
- Single foot control with a USB plug. INS-USB INS-USB-WP (Waterproof) IND-USB. Double foot control with a USB plug. IND-USB IND-USB-WP (Waterproof). Compatible with Philips/Norelco models using a 6 pin DIN plug. IN-210 3.5mm Stereo plug. 3.5mm Stereo plug models and Philips Digital Transcriber model.
- Check the foot control is supported. Please visit the supported product page here. To find out what foot control you have this can be found either directly on the back of the pedal or on the back where the cable comes out RS-.
- PCDictate.com USB Foot Pedal Testing Software. Checks the operation of Infinity, VEC, Classy and Philips USB transcription foot pedals. Proper operation of the USB foot pedal is confirmed by pressing on one of the three pedals and observing the image.
These devices are often used in hospitals for online dictation (like Philips SpeechMagic Dictation Software).
Philips LFH2330 USB Foot Control for use with Philips SpeechExec Transcription Software. Purchase from the UK's No.1 Philips Master Digital Centre. Providing the most affordable pricing and professional advice in digital dictation and transcription.
This workaround works over LAN or WAN connections.
In my case, I use the following Philips devices and want to connect to my View Desktop:
* Philips SpeechMike III Pro (LFH3200/00)
* Philips Foot Control (LFH 2310/00)
These devices are HID devices (human interface devices). VMware View is underbinding the connection of HID devices by default.
First, you must install the following regkey on the device, from where are you connecting to your View infrastructure:
Usb Foot Pedal Drivers
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREVMware, Inc.VMware VDMUSB]
'AllowHardwareIDs'=hex(7):56,00,69,00,64,00,5f,00,30,00,39,00,31,00,31,00,26,
00,50,00,69,00,64,00,5f,00,31,00,38,00,34,00,34,00,00,00,56,00,69,00,64,00,
5f,00,30,00,39,00,31,00,31,00,26,00,50,00,69,00,64,00,5f,00,30,00,43,00,31,
00,43,00,00,00,00,00
I´ve also attached this regkey as file for downloading. Please remove the '.txt' file ending or change it to '.reg'.
This Key allows your View Client on the source to connect/redirect this two Philips devices via USB.
If you use a different SpeechMike or Foot Control device, you must correct the AllowHardwareIDs entries (VIDs) in this regkey. Hot star plus tv serial.
Here you can find more informations about this:
Now, add the following line to the .vmx file of your View Desktop VM:
Philips Foot Pedal Driver Software
svga.noHWCursor = 'TRUE'
If you use a Desktop Pool with Linked Clones, you also can set this in your Golden Master Image.
This is required to get the Trackpad in your Philips SpeechMike running.
Otherwise your cursor doesn´t follow your mouse if you are using the Trackpad.
Next, you estable a connection to your View Desktop.
After the successfully authentification and connection to your View Desktop, you can connect the Philips Hardware to your Laptop/PC and connect this via View Client to your View Desktop.
ATTENTION: DO NOT CONNECT THE HARDWARE TO YOUR PC BEFORE YOU HAVE A VIEW SESSION OPENED/RUNNING!
The Problem if you connect the hardware before you start the View Client and connect:
Your PC allocate the Philips HID devices, and the View Client wasn´t able to get this allocation back. So the connection of the devices will fail with an error!Reinstall drivers windows 10.
The VMware Support was working on a solution. At this moment, this way was the only way to connect your Philips devices.
REMEMBER: CONNECT HARDWARE AFTER ESTABLE A CONNECTION TO VIEW.
If you follow this step-by-step Guide, you get now a running solution for your Dictation Software: A virtualized desktop, you can reach this everywhere and can dictate everywhere you are.
UPDATE:
Here is a very nice blog entry how VMware solves this problem in View 5.1: