button-board

Windows program to use buttons of a controller to do actions on your computer.

Windows does not take exclusive control over gamepads, so keep in mind:

• this can run alongside games;
• games will still interpret input from the controller. It's a double sided blade...

Proper documentation coming soon™.

Requirements

hidapi

Instructions in Installation.

Python 3.x

If you don't have Python already installed or don't know how to install it, the repository in its current state is not ready for you.

Plugins

coming soon™

Installation

• Clone this repo in an empty folder (folder A)
• Download hidapi-win from the latest release of hidapi from https://github.com/libusb/hidapi/releases/
• Copy hidapi.dll (either from x64 or x86, depending on your system) in this folder
• Write or download plugins in the same folder (folder A)
• (This part will be moved to the config file) Manually run board.py to list all the devices:
• • Search for the one you want to use
• • Modify parameters in hid.Device(...) in the connect_to_device function
• • Press the buttons you'd like to detect and see where they are.
• • Modify the subarray of read list(d)[<start>:<end>], start should be the index of the first significant bit from step above divided by 8 and floored, end should be the index of the last significant bit from step above divided by 8 and floored.
• config (coming soon™)
• Run as module (py -m button-board from parent folder)