Chrome lets you connect a website to your computer’s USB, Serial, and HID devices. For example, keyboard, headset, speaker, gamepad, camera, and even microcontroller. On Android, you can connect a website to a USB device.
Important: Currently, iPhone and iPad don’t allow USB, Serial, or HID devices to connect to webpages in Chrome.
When to give access to your deviceOnly give device access to a trusted site. If you pair a website with your device, the site gets all the information on the device and can even reprogram it. You can choose your default permission setting for these devices on your computer.
Tip: To access the connected device on the Linux system, the udev rule needs to be configured appropriately.
Remove a website's access to your deviceThe Universal Serial Bus (USB) is the standard for wired extension. USB “device classes” specifies which features and which data formats the device supports.
Learn more about Serial devices in ChromeA serial device is a device that provides serial communication interfaces, also known as serial ports. Through serial ports, information transfers in or out sequentially one bit at a time. While interfaces such as Ethernet, FireWire, and USB also send data as a serial stream, the term serial port usually means hardware compliance such as RS-232, RS-485, or RS-422.
Learn more about HID devices in ChromeHuman Interface Device (HID) refers to the HID protocol, a standard communication with connected devices. Examples of HID devices are keyboards, mice, headsets, and game controllers.
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