Controller output visualization

Arcuza

I have some troubles with one of my controllers, when going up and down in a game list, suddenly screen changes to next system game list. When I press left to go back to the previous system it automatically browses up through the game list (even if I don't touch the controller)

It would be awesome to have a option on the ES menu to show the controller output. It could be done with some nice graphics as well, i.e. Show a nice Xbox 360 controller and colorize which buttons are currently pressed.

Perfect for controller troubleshooting.

meleu

@Arcuza well... I'm playing with a code to do something similar to what you want (but with no fancy graphics, it's console based). If you wanna try:
http://github.com/meleu/jstest-sdl

You can get the feedback of what buttons are being pressed. Including a nice bar for the analog directionals.

dankcushions

@Arcuza BTW, you can turn off that behaviour in ES - it's called 'quick system select'(or something like that) in the ES UI menu. I think maybe it should be off by default as it's not that useful, but often an annoyance!

Arcuza

@meleu How can I activate/install that application?

meleu

@Arcuza said in Controller output visualization:

@meleu How can I activate/install that application?

Oh sorry. I didn't make the installation process very clear on the README. I've just updated it.

Here is a method of instalation:

sudo apt-get install libsdl2-dev libncurses5-dev
git clone http://github.com/meleu/jstest-sdl
cd jstest-sdl
make
sudo cp jstest-sdl /usr/local/bin/

And then get the list of your current available joysticks:

jstest-sdl --listsimple

It shows the available joysticks and their respective index. Example:
jstest-sdl --listsimple
0:ipega Extending Game Controller

[prompt]$ jstest-sdl --listsimple
0:ipega Extending Game Controller

To do what you want, pick the number of the joystick you want to test and execute the jstest-sdl with --test option, like this:

jstest-sdl --test 0

meleu

There was an error in the Makefile and I've just fixed it. If you failed to compile it before, you can try again now.