Griffin PowerMate for Windows 10

Note: Please try the project at the bottom first! It doesnt require re-installing the Driver with WinUSB

This repository is a simple way to reprogram the Griffin powermate, that works in windows 10. We first override the Griffin powermate driver with WinUSB, which is a generic user-space driver.

Then, we use python to interface with the raw powermate's signals, and output whatever keyboard/mouse events we want. This is all done in user-space (rather than kernel space), meaning it is easy to re-define what we want to send.

Installation / Usage

1. Install python 2.7 (https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-2716/)
2. Plug in Griffin power mate (only usb supported)
3. run Zadig (tools/)

• Options -> Show All Devices
• Select Griffin power mate
• Select WinUSB (v6.1.7600.16385)
• Install driver

4. Install WinUsbPy (tools/)

• Unzip WinUsbPy-master.zip
• open a cmd console to the unzipped directory
• use python setup.py install (alternative is py -2 setup.py install if running multiple python installs)

5. Run it

• python powermate.py or if you have multiple installs, py -2 powermate.py

To edit the functionality, have a look at autoshiftcache.py, and implement the increment, decrement and tick functions. I have included a stripped down sendinput.py, which allows you to send windows keyboard events.

Uninstalling / Reverting (oh no, it doesnt work :( )

• Open Device manager
• Select Griffin power mate
• Update driver
• Choose from drivers
• Try each of the different drivers (the one that worked for me wasn't called Griffin Powermate, it was called "USB Input Device")
• 
• Open Griffin powermate official software again, it should work with one of the drivers

Other projects

These projects are also in python2, and have been confirmed to work on other people's systems: It uses the default powermate driver; therefore not needing WinUSB override.

• https://github.com/crash7/griffin-powermate
  • Python 2.7.9+

Commands to run	python2 installed	python2 and python3 installed
Install pywinusb	pip install pywinusb	py -2 -m pip install pywinusb
Install griffin_powermate	pip install griffin_powermate	py -2 -m pip install griffin_powermate
Run test file (you need to write one first!)	python test.py	py -2 test.py