A program that lets you use your tablet's tilting to emulate an actual joystick on a computer. Currently this only works on Linux systems as it uses uinput behind the scenes. It might work on Macs, I haven't got a Mac so I can't test.
It's called tablet tilt joystick but it will work with any handheld device with a reasonably modern web browser and an orientation sensor.
Runs a light web server which you can connect to in a browser on your tablet.
It currently does not work on most (any?) mobile browsers as they either don't support orientation sensor at all or require HTTPS to use it. This has been tested on:
- IOS 12 + Safari
- IOS 12 + Opera
- Android + Firefox
- Android + Opera
- Android + Chrome
- Android + Samsung Internet
The only platform I found that it does work on is Safari on IOS 11 but that's quite outdated.
Install with pip (pip3 install tablet-tilt-joystick) then run with python3 -m tablet_tilt_joystick or just tablet_tilt_joystick and connect to <your ip>:4242 on a mobile device to get started. If a suitable image display program is found, it will also show a QR code that you can scan with a mobile device to get to the IP quickly. The joystick will show up in your system as something like python-uinput.
For advanced usage instructions, run python3 -m tablet_tilt_joystick -h.
If your tablet fails to find the server, make sure this program isn't blocked by a firewall. Also try navigating to your computers IP manually on the tablet.
First install the required packages: pip install build twine.
Then run python -m build from this directory. If there were no errors then run python3 -m twine upload dist/*.
- Make it work on Windows (requires port of uinput)
- Give users a warning when orientation sensor is blocked
- Command line options to use custom hosting port and suppress displaying QR code
- Fix missing dependencies
- First version published to pypi
- Opens QR code
- Basic functionality of tilting tablet