Detecting external drive one-touch button?

[Avi Schwartz]

On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 11:57 PM, Karl Auer  wrote:

> On Wed, 2013-09-25 at 00:22 -0400, Ric Moore wrote:
> > On 09/24/2013 07:42 PM, Avi Schwartz wrote:
> > > I have an external Transcend disk drive which has a "One-Touch Backup"
> > > button that on a Mac or a Windows machine will start a backup program
> > > when pressed.
> > >
> > > I wasn't able to find such a program for Linux and I was wondering if
> > > there is a way I can detect the button press in Ubuntu
>
> Look around for scanbuttond. It's a utility that runs scripts when it
> detects button-presses on scanners. It can *probably* detect
> button-presses on any USB device - or maybe not. Worth a look, anyway,
> and it has a harmless default mode. If you just run it according to the
> docs and start pressing buttons you should see quickly enough whether it
> will be any use.
>
> Regards, K.
>
>
Thanks Karl for the suggestion. I installed scanbuttond but it didn't
detect the button press. From the README and syslog I gathered that it is
using the scanners backend drivers to detect the button presses.

Avi
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