usbipd-win VS Flow.Launcher

If (like me) you're stuck on Windows, WSL2 is really awesome. It's super fast, and requires very minimal setup to get it up and running. The VS Code integration is superb. You can even connect USB devices to WSL now, which makes it very suitable for embedded. You get nearly the performance of a full OS install, unlike a typical VM. On my machine it's about 50% faster than Virtualbox.

ADS-B is a protocol used by aircrafts to broadcast their position, altitude, speed, and other information. Nowadays, the majority of aircrafts broadcast ADS-B messages constantly. Anyone with the right equipment can listen to these messages. You can buy a relatively cheap USB dongle with an antenna on Amazon and install drivers for it on Linux. In my case I used usbipd-win to mount the USB device inside Ubuntu running in WSL2. Then I installed the Linux drivers and dump1090, a program that makes use of these drivers and then outputs ADS-B messages in a format that is easy to parse. While you can use dump1090 to display a neat table full of information about aircrafts, I wanted to use its raw output capabilities to parse ADS-B messages myself. It starts a simple TCP server that outputs raw ADS-B messages wrapped in Mode-S Beast frames. I'm not sure what Beast means, but I found something that looks like its spec here.

Anyway, in the meantime you can try using usbipd-win. Start with:

Hi, I'm using usbipd to redirect USB devices to a remote virtual machine (USB/IP) for my work and I'd like to know if the expansion cards are detected as their own devices, especially the Ethernet expansion card.

What about USB devices support ?

Is there any more integrate solution than:

https://github.com/dorssel/usbipd-win/

There is even a GUI available for usbip-win if you please. Start here: https://github.com/dorssel/usbipd-win

I installed usbipd as outlined here. When I run lsusb, I can see my USB drive:

Though I see https://github.com/dorssel/usbipd-win may actually work properly as a full usb passthrough now for WSL2?

For server (e.g. machine that provides devices), https://github.com/dorssel/usbipd-win is a bit more mature - they grabbed the driver infrastructure from virtualbox to handle the issues with code signing.

Check this project out. Works with WSL. Should work with Hyper-V too https://github.com/dorssel/usbipd-win

Flow Launcher is a very good alternative that i use everyday:

https://github.com/Flow-Launcher/Flow.Launcher

Looks like there’s an Everything plugin https://github.com/Flow-Launcher/Flow.Launcher#everything-pl...

Use Flow Launcher with Everything if you want a Spotlight-like experience on Windows. Search results are instant.

I've been using the script provided on this github (https://github.com/Flow-Launcher/Flow.Launcher/discussions/747) to open flow launcher with windows button, but this script doesnt take into account win + D, win + arrow keys, etc. How can this script be edited so that if just the windows key is pressed, the !{Space} will be sent, but if not, run whatever the user pressed?

https://github.com/Flow-Launcher/Flow.Launcher

The Fluent Search creator is pretty active and available on Discord.

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