Running Phidgets under Linux/Ubuntu

You might get strange permission errors if trying to access phidget devices. This might solve it. In order for your software to access the USB port, you need to do the following changes:

Make the phidget devices accessable:

*) Open/create the udev rule file
$ sudo nano /etc/udev/rules.d/80_phidget.rules

*) Add the following content:
SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", ACTION=="add", ATTRS{idVendor}=="06c2", ATTRS{idProduct}=="00[3-a][0-f]", MODE="666"

*) set USB_DEVFS_PATH to /dev/bus/usb by adding to ~/.bashrc:
export USB_DEVFS_PATH=/dev/bus/usb

*) restart udev:
$ services udev restart

*) if it doesn't work. Try the good old:
$ sudo reboot

General libraries needed:
$ sudo apt-get install libusb-dev

Installing libs for C development
*) Install lib-usb

$ sudo apt-get install libusb-dev

For the latest c drivers go to http://www.phidgets.com/drivers.php and download the Linux source (currently: http://www.phidgets.com/downloads/libraries/libphidget_2.1.8.20111220.tar.gz)

*) Extract, compile and install

$ tar xvf libphidget_2.1.8.20111220.tar.gz
$ cd libphidget_2.1.8.20111220
$ ./configure
$ make
$ sudo make install

Installing libs for C# development
For the latest c drivers go to http://www.phidgets.com/drivers.php and download the windows libs (currently: http://www.phidgets.com/downloads/libraries/Phidget21-windevel_2.1.8.20111220.zip)
*) Extract and install
$ unzip Phidget21-windevel_2.1.8.20111220.zip
$ cd phidget21-windevel/
$ sudo gacutil -i Phidget21.NET.dll

The file will be located in directory in /usr/lib/mono/gac/Phidget21.NET/