Beginners • Re: My First Pi Project: USB over IP?

Anyway, not an ideal first Pi project.

My intent is to put the pedal about 25-50 away isolated where it can be mics up and control it from stage with the pedal and not run a usb cable.

25-50 what? Inches, feet, metres, miles? It matters.

So I believe the pedal emulates a computer input I’m not sure what is being passed back other than recognition that the input was received.

If I understand USBIP is not a two way street between two devices?

Yes but you're using three.

USBIP lets computer B access a USB device that's physically connected to computer A over a network as if it were physically connected to computer B.

What you appear to want is USB device <-> computer A <-> computer B <-> amp. Computer A handles the first bit, USBIP handles the middle bit, but you need to handle the last bit yourself by passing through the data to/from the amp via the Pi at that end.

USB is one master multiple slaves. Two masters cannot talk directly to each other, nor can two slaves.

To do what you want to you need to:

• Identify which device is the USB master and which the slave (I'd guess the amp is the master and the pedal the slave)
• Configure the pedal end PI to
  • Run a WiFI access point (unless one that both Pi can connect to is available)
  • Run USBIP for the pedal
• Configure the amp end Pi to
  • Connect to the WiFi network from the pedal Pi
  • Act as a USBIP client to the server on the pedal Pi.
  • Act as a USB device to the amp
  • Pass data between the USBIP software device and its end of the USB link to the amp in both directions.
    That might be easy, it might not. You'll need more detailed info about both the pedal and the amp to be able to even guess.

There doesn’t seem to be a simple way to do this for some reason

No, there probably isn't. Unless either manufacturer sells something to do it.

Statistics: Posted by keepinthatempo — Tue Oct 28, 2025 1:07 am