Help a frustrated newbie please....

[PilotGuy9853]

I am new to Tiny USB and ESP-32 boards. I am creating a button box for Microsoft Flight Sim using an ESP-32 S3 board and Tiny USB and the Arduino IDE. I have the button box working well. My problem is that in the Windows game controllers it shows as "Tiny USB HID". I have several of these button boxes and map them to different controls but for some reason Windows appears to be confusing the boxes and the mappings change each time I reboot. I would like to rename these boxes to something more descriptive and perhaps change a serial number or something so that each box will appear unique to Windows. As I said, I am using the Tiny USB library on an ESP-32 S3 board. How can I make this change? Please understand that I am new to this so take that into consideration please. Thank you in advance for any assistance you can give.

[braxlan]

If you derived your code from a TinyUSB example, simply open the file usb_descriptors.c for the device part and edit char const *string_desc_arr[] to your needs, manufacturer and product mostly I guess.

AFAIK Windows caches USB device descriptors and maybe even more. An alternative could be to delete the cached entry every time you change your code.

[PilotGuy9853]

Forgive my ignorance. As I said, I am a newbie at this? Where do I find "usb_descriptors.c"?

[braxlan]

I'm sorry, but I've missed one important detail: You are using TinyUSB Library for Arduino, and this would be your place to ask.

Here's the place for the original C/C++ library which the Arduino version is based on. The handling of the "USB descriptors" (the parts which describe the USB device you are programming) is handled differently on Arduino, which was my personal reason to switch to the plain C/C++ version of TinyUSB and deal with the additional efforts using it, while getting more degrees of freedom.

[PilotGuy9853]

Do you use the IDF then instead of the Arduino IDE?

[braxlan]

I don't know what you mean by "IDF". I use VScodium with pico-SDK + TinyUSB to develop for RP2040. I bet there is an SDK for ESP-32 too, never got into this because I never developed for ESP-32. For a beginner, the learning curve might be steep, but totally worth it to my eyes.

[PilotGuy9853]

The ESP-IDF (Espressif IoT Development Framework) is the official development framework for the ESP32, ESP32-S, ESP32-C, ESP32-H, and ESP32-P Series SoCs. It provides a robust, highly integrated platform for developing Internet-of-Things (IoT) applications with Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, power management, and several other system features - From Google

I have the IDF (IDE) and have messed with it a bit. Sounds like it is time to get back into it and ditch the Arduino IDE.