LibUsb claim interface access denied Java

Question

I want to be able to read data from an USB pedometer. I\'m trying this in Java and I\'m using the LibUsb and Usb4Java libraries. I can\'t seem to claim the usb pipe or anything

Answer 1

It could be related to an issue due to wrong permissions.
Here is an interesting comment from someone that incurred in a similar problem.
They suggest to edit the file /etc/udev/rules.d/90-usbpermission.rules by adding the following line:

SUBSYSTEM==“usb”,GROUP=“users”,MODE=“0666”

Hoping it helps, it mostly depends on the host system.

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Another interesting thread is this one.
Someone simply got around the issue by not claiming the ownership of the interface.
I guess this would work also in your case, at least as a workaround until a definitive solution has been found.