Buttplug Intiface Device Control Library

Introduction

Buttplug is a framework for hooking up hardware to interfaces, where hardware usually means sex toys, but could honestly be just about anything. It's basically a userland HID manager for things that may not specifically be HID.

In more concrete terms, think of Buttplug as something like osculator or VRPN, but for sex toys. Instead of wiimotes and control surfaces, we interface with vibrators, electrostim equipment, fucking machines, and other hardware that can communicate with computers.

The core of buttplug works as a router. It is a Rust based application that connects to libraries that registers and communicates with different hardware. Clients can then connect over websockets or network ports, to claim and interact with the hardware.

Buttplug-rs is a full fledged implementation of Buttplug, implementing both the client and server portions of the system. Implementations for other languages (such as C# and JS) are built on top of the Rust library. See the buttplug-rs-ffi repo for more info.

Hardware Support

Buttplug-rs is currently capable of controlling toys via:

• Bluetooth LE (Desktop and Android/iOS)
• Serial Ports (Desktop)
• USB HID (Desktop)
• Lovense Devices via the Lovense Dongle (HID and Serial dongles, Desktop)
• Lovense Connect App (Desktop and Android/iOS)
• Websockets (for simulated and DIY devices, Desktop and Android/iOS)
• XInput gamepads (Windows only)

See IOSTIndex for a full list of supported hardware (Filter on "Buttplug Rust").

Documentation and Examples

To learn how to use the Buttplug Library, check out the Buttplug Developer Guide. Examples are included in this guide, and for Rust specifically, can be found in the examples directory of the docs repo.

Compiling

On Windows and macOS, running cargo build should suffice for building the project. All dependencies are vendored in.

On Linux, the following packages will be needed to build with default features:

• libudev-dev (Required for serial port/HID support)
• libusb-1.0-0-dev (Required for serial port/HID support)

The package names are listed as their Debian requirements, and may be different for other distributions. Removing the lovense-dongle-manager and serial-manager features should stop these from being required.

Usage

To use Buttplug in your Rust application or library, check out the buttplug package on crates.io.

The following crate features are available

Default features are enough to build a full desktop system:

• tokio-runtime
• client
• server
• serialize-json
• websocket
• websocket-server-manager
• btleplug-manager (feature builds as noop on WASM)
• serial-manager (feature builds as noop on iOS, Android)
• lovense-dongle-manager (feature builds as noop on iOS, Android)
• xinput-manager (feature is only relevant on windows, but builds as a noop on all other platforms).

Contributing

If you have issues or feature requests, please feel free to file an issue.

We are not looking for code contributions or pull requests at this time, and will not accept pull requests that do not have a matching issue where the matter was previously discussed. Pull requests should only be submitted after talking to qdot via issues (or on Discord or Twitter DMs if you would like to stay anonymous and out of recorded info on the repo) and receiving approval to develop code based on an issue. Any random or non-issue pull requests will most likely be closed without merging.

If you'd like to contribute in a non-technical way, we need money to keep up with supporting the latest and greatest hardware. We have multiple ways to donate!

• Patreon
• Github Sponsors
• Ko-Fi

License

Buttplug is BSD 3-Clause licensed.

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