Devices listed multiple times in Preferences - Controller

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Reported by: esbrandt
Date: 2012-05-15T09:46:01Z
Status: Expired
Importance: Medium
Launchpad Issue: lp999561
Tags: controllers
Attachments: Preferences.png, [1.11 Preferences.png](https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/999561/+attachment/3704127/+files/1.11 Preferences.png)

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Tested with latest lp:mixxx r3159 MacOSX 10.6.8 and a fresh mixxx database

I have external keyboard and pen tablet connected to my Macbook pro. Under Preferences->Controller they are listed multiple times. This is confusing. If i disconnect the external devices, even the internal trackpad is listed 4 times. Listing/Screenshot is from when the externals are connected. Also we should make the left column in the preferences window resizable, you can`t even read the full names of the devices in the listing.

Excerpt from mixxx.log
Debug [Main]: Displaying mixxx 
Debug [Controller]: ControllerManager: Setting up devices 
Debug [Controller]: Scanning PortMIDI devices: 
Debug [Controller]: Scanning HSS1394 devices: 
Debug [Controller]:    Nodes detected: 0 
Debug [Controller]: Scanning HID devices: 
  Found Apple Computer, Inc. Apple IR r16, S/N   Interface -1
  Found  Apple Mikey HID Driver r0, S/N   Interface -1
  Found Apple Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad r108, S/N   Interface -1
  Found Apple Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad r0, S/N   Interface -1
  Found Wacom Co.,Ltd. CTL-460 r106, S/N   Interface -1
  Found Apple, Inc Apple Keyboard r69, S/N   Interface -1
  Found Apple Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad r108, S/N   Interface -1
  Found Apple Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad r108, S/N   Interface -1
  Found Wacom Co.,Ltd. CTL-460 r0, S/N   Interface -1
  Found Wacom Co.,Ltd. CTL-460 r106, S/N   Interface -1
  Found Apple, Inc Apple Keyboard r69, S/N   Interface -1
Debug [Controller]: ControllerManager::getControllerList 
Debug [Controller]: Setting qConfigPath from location in resourcePath commandline arg: "res/" 
Warning [Controller]: Cannot find "Apple_IR_.cntrlr.xml" in either res/ "or the user's Mixxx directories (/Users/user/Library/Application Support/Mixxx/presets/" "/Users/user/Library/Application Support/Mixxx/controllers/)" 
Debug [Main]: resize QSize(1280, 700) 
Debug [Controller]: Setting qConfigPath from location in resourcePath commandline arg: "res/" 
Warning [Controller]: Cannot find "Apple_Mikey_HID_Driver_.cntrlr.xml" in either res/ "or the user's Mixxx directories (/Users/user/Library/Application Support/Mixxx/presets/" "/Users/user/Library/Application Support/Mixxx/controllers/)" 
Debug [Controller]: Setting qConfigPath from location in resourcePath commandline arg: "res/" 
Warning [Controller]: Cannot find "Apple_Internal_Keyboard_/_Trackpad_.cntrlr.xml" in either res/ "or the user's Mixxx directories (/Users/user/Library/Application Support/Mixxx/presets/" "/Users/user/Library/Application Support/Mixxx/controllers/)" 
Debug [Controller]: Setting qConfigPath from location in resourcePath commandline arg: "res/" 
Warning [Controller]: Cannot find "Apple_Internal_Keyboard_/_Trackpad_--2.cntrlr.xml" in either res/ "or the user's Mixxx directories (/Users/user/Library/Application Support/Mixxx/presets/" "/Users/user/Library/Application Support/Mixxx/controllers/)" 
Debug [Controller]: Setting qConfigPath from location in resourcePath commandline arg: "res/" 
Warning [Controller]: Cannot find "CTL-460_.cntrlr.xml" in either res/ "or the user's Mixxx directories (/Users/user/Library/Application Support/Mixxx/presets/" "/Users/user/Library/Application Support/Mixxx/controllers/)" 
Debug [Controller]: Setting qConfigPath from location in resourcePath commandline arg: "res/" 
Warning [Controller]: Cannot find "Apple_Keyboard_.cntrlr.xml" in either res/ "or the user's Mixxx directories (/Users/user/Library/Application Support/Mixxx/presets/" "/Users/user/Library/Application Support/Mixxx/controllers/)" 
Debug [Controller]: Setting qConfigPath from location in resourcePath commandline arg: "res/" 
Warning [Controller]: Cannot find "Apple_Internal_Keyboard_/_Trackpad_--3.cntrlr.xml" in either res/ "or the user's Mixxx directories (/Users/user/Library/Application Support/Mixxx/presets/" "/Users/user/Library/Application Support/Mixxx/controllers/)" 
Debug [Controller]: Setting qConfigPath from location in resourcePath commandline arg: "res/" 
Warning [Controller]: Cannot find "Apple_Internal_Keyboard_/_Trackpad_--4.cntrlr.xml" in either res/ "or the user's Mixxx directories (/Users/user/Library/Application Support/Mixxx/presets/" "/Users/user/Library/Application Support/Mixxx/controllers/)" 
Debug [Controller]: Setting qConfigPath from location in resourcePath commandline arg: "res/" 
Warning [Controller]: Cannot find "CTL-460_--2.cntrlr.xml" in either res/ "or the user's Mixxx directories (/Users/user/Library/Application Support/Mixxx/presets/" "/Users/user/Library/Application Support/Mixxx/controllers/)" 
Debug [Controller]: Setting qConfigPath from location in resourcePath commandline arg: "res/" 
Warning [Controller]: Cannot find "CTL-460_--3.cntrlr.xml" in either res/ "or the user's Mixxx directories (/Users/user/Library/Application Support/Mixxx/presets/" "/Users/user/Library/Application Support/Mixxx/controllers/)" 
Debug [Controller]: Setting qConfigPath from location in resourcePath commandline arg: "res/" 
Warning [Controller]: Cannot find "Apple_Keyboard_--2.cntrlr.xml" in either res/ "or the user's Mixxx directories (/Users/user/Library/Application Support/Mixxx/presets/" "/Users/user/Library/Application Support/Mixxx/controllers/)" 
Debug [Controller]: Controller polling stopped.

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Commented by: esbrandt
Date: 2012-05-15T09:46:32Z
Attachments: Preferences.png

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Commented by: rryan
Date: 2013-05-10T20:13:23Z

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Is this fixed?

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Commented by: esbrandt
Date: 2013-06-15T10:43:03Z
Attachments: [1.11 Preferences.png](https://bugs.launchpad.net/mixxx/+bug/999561/+attachment/3704127/+files/1.11 Preferences.png)

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Nope.
See 1.11.0 final screenshot

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Commented by: gavinswanson
Date: 2013-07-26T04:11:51Z

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Maybe not something we can do much about but it's also kind of odd to see random Devices listed. My laptop lists 8 devices, three of which I think are related to my wireless mouse and the other 5 are just listed as USB Receiver (with some weird Unicode character in the name).

Using 1.11.0 x64

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Commented by: rryan
Date: 2014-03-24T21:57:05Z

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Hmm, I still can't reproduce on OS X but it would be great to get this sorted out.

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Commented by: Pegasus-RPG
Date: 2015-04-19T00:28:19Z

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What, you don't want to map your wireless mouse to control effects? :) Seriously, I suspect some of our more hacker type users would be interested in having access to use these pieces of hardware in Mixxx, so the ideal would be to have a run-time configurable black list. Perhaps as a preferences panel listing all devices with check boxes to the left that marks each device as hidden or not. That way we don't have to keep abreast of the latest devices as users can disable them on their own as they wish.

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Commented by: rryan
Date: 2015-04-21T21:47:20Z

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My assumption from Jus's report was that the dupes were not actually there in the underlying OS device list -- so I thought that was our bug.

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Commented by: daschuer
Date: 2020-05-09T11:20:29Z

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Is this still an issue in Mixxx 2.2?

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Commented by: janitor
Date: 2020-07-09T04:17:19Z

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[Expired for Mixxx because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

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Issue closed with status Expired.