# Bus 002 Device 002: ID 05f3:00ff PI Engineering, Inc. # Set permissions for USB footpedal Infinity IN-USB-1 Finally, after I got permissions issues (the error message suggested I run sudo chmod a+r /dev/usb/hiddev0 footpedal, which didn’t seem to work) I followed Jason Barnett’s and Richard Steffan’s advice and set up a udev rule:.I edited the script following Phillip Goodfellow’s instructions.Ī finding the script: # which footpedal -> /usr/bin/footpedalī editing that script to comment out lines 119-126:ġ19 # Check whether your notification agent supportġ25 # self.reusable_t_timeout(1000) After installation, the script didn’t work immediately.First, I installed the lovely Footpedal GNOME integration control, which sadly seems a bit dormant. Executive Communication Systems Infinity 3 USB Foot Pedal Control with Computer Plug In, one unit.Getting the foot pedal working in Linux (Mint 14) was a minor mission, so I thought I’d document it for anyone else doing the same: However, this set-up did have some Rachmaninoff problems – requiring hand contortion to control audio, with attendant RSI/CTS-baiting effects that often resulted in sore wrists during transcription binges. It does make a tremendous difference not to have to constantly move one’s fingers from keyboard to mouse and back, although I had mitigated this considerably by using a thinkpad external keyboard with a trackpoint. I picked this Infinity USB-2 pedal up from ebay for $30. John Heritage told me to go buy a foot pedal. It was written in 2013 so the software is *very* out of date and I doubt I’ll able to help you if it goes wrong. UPDATE 2: Please do not follow the instructions on this blog and expect them to work. It’s a great piece of software and well worth the modest price.
UPDATE: I have subsequently found that transcribe works beautifully well and comes with some great pedal drivers.
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