On Thursday, June 25, 2020 3:09:46 AM EDT David Rheinsberg wrote: > Hi > > On Thu, 25 Jun 2020 at 00:09, David Korth <gerbils...@gerbilsoft.com> wrote: > > I've been manually setting the player IDs on Wii controllers when running > > multiplayer games by writing to the /sys/class/leds/ directory. Having the > > hid-wiimote driver do this itself significantly reduces setup time. > > What do you mean with "reduces setup time significantly"? Why would it > take that long to set the LEDs? > > Thanks > David
The LED setup in this case is done entirely manually by me writing to the individual files in /sys/class/leds/. This has to be done when the controllers are connected initially, and if a controller has to be reconnected for some reason (e.g. it runs out of batteries). I don't know of any userspace tools that would make this easier to automate, except maybe a shell script, and I'd probably still need to run it manually. Both the Sixaxis and Xpad drivers appear to implement something similar, so perhaps a higher-level "player number" mechanism that works with all controllers would be worth looking into. This could in theory be done with a userspace daemon too (or a udev hook). As it is right now, I still think implementing it in the wiimote driver is the best method to keep it consistent with the rest of the drivers without having to install additional userspace tools. Thanks
