Usb.Events

Subscribe to the Inserted and Removed events to be notified when a USB drive is plugged in or unplugged, or when a USB device is connected or disconnected. Usb.Events is a .NET Standard 2.0 library and uses WMI on Windows, libudev on Linux and IOKit on macOS.

How to use:

Include NuGet package from https://www.nuget.org/packages/Usb.Events

 <ItemGroup>
     <PackageReference Include="Usb.Events" Version="10.0.1.1" />
 </ItemGroup>

Subscribe to events:

 using Usb.Events;

 class Program
 {
     static void Main(string[] _)
     {
         using IUsbEventWatcher usbEventWatcher = new UsbEventWatcher();

         usbEventWatcher.UsbDeviceRemoved += (_, device) => Console.WriteLine("Removed:" + Environment.NewLine + device + Environment.NewLine);

         usbEventWatcher.UsbDeviceAdded += (_, device) => Console.WriteLine("Added:" + Environment.NewLine + device + Environment.NewLine);

         usbEventWatcher.UsbDriveEjected += (_, path) => Console.WriteLine("Ejected:" + Environment.NewLine + path + Environment.NewLine);

         usbEventWatcher.UsbDriveMounted += (_, path) =>
         {
             Console.WriteLine("Mounted:" + Environment.NewLine + path + Environment.NewLine);

             foreach (string entry in Directory.GetFileSystemEntries(path))
                 Console.WriteLine(entry);

             Console.WriteLine();
         };

         Console.ReadLine();
     }
 }

Constructor parameters:

UsbEventWatcher(bool startImmediately = true, bool includeTTY = false)

Set startImmediately to false if you don't want to start immediately.
Then call the Start(bool includeTTY = false) method.
Set includeTTY to true if you want to monitor the TTY subsystem in Linux (besides the USB subsystem).

Example:

Usb.Events.Example demonstrates how to use Windows SetupAPI.dll functions SetupDiGetClassDevs, SetupDiEnumDeviceInfo and SetupDiGetDeviceProperty together with DEVPKEY_Device_DeviceDesc, DEVPKEY_Device_BusReportedDeviceDesc and DEVPKEY_Device_FriendlyName to get "Device description", "Bus reported device description" and "Friendly name" of the Usb.Events.UsbDevice reported by the Usb.Events.IUsbEventWatcher.UsbDeviceAdded event.

TO DO:

Automatically mount USB drive on UsbDeviceAdded event in Linux
Automatically mount USB drive on UsbDeviceAdded event in macOS

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