Controlling OSMC with game pad

[solehide]

It’s suggested in this thread that other game pads can be used with some minor changes. Is it true? Anyone done it?

I am in the same boat as adamericson in the above link.

@adamericson

When I type sudo rmmod xpadi get

rmmod: ERROR: Module xpad is not currently loadedosmc@osmc:~$ sudo xboxdrvxboxdrv 0.8.5 - http://pingus.seul.org/~grumbel/xboxdrv/Copyright © 2008-2011 Ingo Ruhnke grumbel@gmx.deLicensed under GNU GPL version 3 or later http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.htmlThis program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions; see the file COPYING for details.

– [ ERROR ] ------------------------------------------------------No Xbox or Xbox360 controller found

so, what did i do wrong? I don’t think it sees my controller as a x360 game-pad and that is the problem.

Thank you

[mcobit]

What exact gamepad do you have?
Is it a xbox clone controller or just a generic usb pad?

[solehide]

A generic usb pad

[mcobit]

So that will most likely not work for controlling Kodi. It is compiled without joystick support afaik.

I think @sam_nazarko wanted to try building it with --enable-joystick for testing but I don’t know if that ever happened.

[sam_nazarko]

If someone can build it with --enable-joystick and they get a positive result that doesn’t regress input support, I’m happy to make this change.

Building Kodi for OSMC is very simple.

git clone
cd package/mediacenter-osmc
make [DEVICE]

[mcobit]

Building right now. Anything special to test for? IR/Keyboard/CEC controller regressions?

[raspdealer]

I’m interested in too. I have a Buffalo SNES USB Controller plugged, it will be nice to be able to use it as kodi controller too.

[mcobit]

Ok. That didn’t work. Looks like we have to wait for Kodi 17.

[solehide]

Sorry to here that. Eagerly waiting for Krypton