# Use HID device inside container

**URL:** <https://forums.balena.io/t/use-hid-device-inside-container/3276>\
**Category:** Product support\
**Created:** [June 5, 2018, 11:36am UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/use-hid-device-inside-container/3276 "2018-06-05T11:36:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![ben.clerix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/73ab20/32.png) [@ben.clerix](https://forums.balena.io/u/ben.clerix)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2018, 11:36am UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/use-hid-device-inside-container/3276/1 "2018-06-05T11:36:52Z")

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Hi,

We’re trying to use a HID device inside a container.  
Inside the container we can see it using dmesg:

> …  
> usb 1-2: USB disconnect, device number 7  
> usb 1-2: new low-speed USB device number 8 using xhci\_hcd  
> hid-generic 0003:07F2:0003.0006: hiddev96,hidraw0: USB HID v1.11 Device [Microcomputer Applications, Inc. KEYLOK HID Mode Dongle] on usb-0000:00:14.0-2/input0

On the host OS we can see it:

> root@82ea18a:~# ls /dev/usb  
> hiddev0

But inside the container we do not see it:

> root@3ce553889123:~# ls /dev/usb  
> ls: cannot access /dev/usb: No such file or directory

I also tried `udevd &` and `udevadm trigger`, but that did not work either.

From the docs:

> Only support short syntax and named volumes. Bind mounts are not supported, except for as allowed by [resin.io](http://resin.io) specific labels

Ideally I would like to something like this I guess?

> ```
> volumes:
> - /dev/usb:/dev/usb
> 
> ```

How should we do this?

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**Author:** ![ben.clerix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/73ab20/32.png) [@ben.clerix](https://forums.balena.io/u/ben.clerix)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2018, 6:22am UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/use-hid-device-inside-container/3276/4 "2018-06-07T06:22:51Z")

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Update: this is fixed by setting priviliged to true in the docker-compose file.