Tom, Absolutely this is just to work with Steam and works fine but pygame.joystick does not see the controller. In my game I have created an 'auto-switch' when a controller is detected via pygame.joystick, game will switch into controller mode (on screen prompts, etc). As Valve's gamepad is not being detected by pyGame, game still show keyboard bindings which is kind of awkward to play even if gamepad can be used and re-binded by a user.
Jake, I think that's not the problem with SDL per say. Driver is provided via Steam client and therefore only usable via Steam layer of code. Truth to be said I have not checked Valve's documentation on how they want to see this working. Kind of hoped for it to be PnP regardless if Steam is running or not. Cheers On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 1:28 AM, Jake b <ninmonk...@gmail.com> wrote: > Have you tried the controller using SDL2? > > On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 6:21 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 >> > > > > -- > Jake >
