It works for me on both Windows and Linux, although it seems to work a lot better under Windows. It only works when steam is running, and really only works when steam launches your game. Steam does let you add shortcuts to non-Steam games, and when you launch through the shortcut, the controller works, but only in the window that was just launched.
You also need to configure the controller as a gamepad in the big picture mode as well. I've tested this using pygame on Linux, and pygame_sdl2 on Linux and Windows. Basically, this is a "Steam" controller in a literal sense - it's hard to use it with games that are outside of the Steam environment. On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 7:21 PM Bartosz Debski <bart...@debski.co.uk> wrote: > Hi All, > > I know this is quite fresh but if anyone wonders do Steam Controller works > with PyGame? > Well answer is a NO at the moment. I have tested it on Win and on Linux. > Results are the same. > > > >>> import pygame > >>> pygame.init() > > (6, 0) > > >>> pygame.joystick.init() > > >>> pygame.joystick.get_count() > > 0 > > Some of Linux dmesg > [ 3144.851372] usb 7-3: new full-speed USB device number 6 using ohci-pci > [ 3145.005095] usb 7-3: New USB device found, idVendor=28de, idProduct=1142 > [ 3145.005103] usb 7-3: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, > SerialNumber=0 > [ 3145.005108] usb 7-3: Product: Steam Controller > [ 3145.005111] usb 7-3: Manufacturer: Valve Software > [ 3145.012350] input: Valve Software Steam Controller as > /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:13.0/usb7/7-3/7-3:1.0/0003:28DE:1142.000F/input/input14 > [ 3145.012525] hid-generic 0003:28DE:1142.000F: input,hidraw0: USB HID > v1.11 Keyboard [Valve Software Steam Controller] on > usb-0000:00:13.0-3/input0 > [ 3145.018076] hid-generic 0003:28DE:1142.0010: hiddev0,hidraw1: USB HID > v1.11 Device [Valve Software Steam Controller] on usb-0000:00:13.0-3/input1 > [ 3145.025307] hid-generic 0003:28DE:1142.0011: hiddev0,hidraw2: USB HID > v1.11 Device [Valve Software Steam Controller] on usb-0000:00:13.0-3/input2 > [ 3145.032304] hid-generic 0003:28DE:1142.0012: hiddev0,hidraw3: USB HID > v1.11 Device [Valve Software Steam Controller] on usb-0000:00:13.0-3/input3 > [ 3145.039105] hid-generic 0003:28DE:1142.0013: hiddev0,hidraw4: USB HID > v1.11 Device [Valve Software Steam Controller] on usb-0000:00:13.0-3/input4 > > Looks like drivers for controller are provided with Steam client as > controller kind of works when you are logged into Steam. This mimics > keyboard and mouse which sort some of the problems. > > I have full controller support in my game and as long as gamepad is > recognised by system then pygame can make use of it. Seems like we need to > wait for OS level support for it as i got nothing on system level for it. > > I have tested also on Super Meat Boy (standalone, non-steam, Linux) and > gamepad works only if Steam is running as well, so this is broader issue > and not just pygame. > > Thought I share my findings. > > Cheers > Bart >
