Dualshock 4 support

[ibaranov-cp]

Hello all,

Does this package support, or plan to support soon, the Dualshock 4?

Dualshock 3 is EOL.

[tonybaltovski]

I just wanted to follow up with this. I have confirmed that the ds4drv works with the PS4 controller when in hidraw mode as a regular input. I spun up a VM and using Atheros AR3011 USB adaptor. It can be installed via pip using sudo pip install ds4drv. Pairing can be done by enabling pairing on controller by holding Share + the PS button until the LED starts blinking rapidly. Scan for a controller using hcitool scan and a "Wireless controller xx.xx.xx.xx" should be listed. Pair with sudo bluez-simple-agent hci0 xx.xx.xx.xx and trust the device with sudo bluez-test-device trusted xx.xx.xx.xx yes or use a (pairing script). A daemon service can be added using this with this config.

Any thoughts on going forward deploying the PS4 controller into the ROS ecosystem? Other bluetooth controllers suggestions welcomed.

[rbbg]

I also wanted to use the DS4 with ROS and found it surprisingly easy. After installing ds4drv and pairing the controller, I ran ds4drv --hidraw, which mounted the controller onto /dev/input/js1 (in my case). Then, running a roscore and rosparam set joy_node/dev "/dev/input/js1" + rosrun joy joy_node spun up a functional node publishing all the axes and button states.

The mapping of the buttons/axes was a bit strange, but it's definitely usable.

[davefeilseifer]

added files for ps4 controller mappings when using ds4drv to pr2_teleop (PR2/pr2_apps#37)

[JWhitleyWork]

Closing issue thanks to resolution by @rbbg.

[naoki-mizuno]

I want to add that I wrote ds4_driver, a ROS driver for DualShock 4 that allows you to access IMU and touchpad info and also send feedback to the device.

Repository: https://github.com/naoki-mizuno/ds4_driver