{"id":363,"date":"2009-10-21T00:29:02","date_gmt":"2009-10-20T14:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brnz.org\/hbr\/?p=363"},"modified":"2009-10-21T23:12:12","modified_gmt":"2009-10-21T13:12:12","slug":"sixaxis-as-joystick-and-mouse-over-bluetooth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brnz.org\/hbr\/?p=363","title":{"rendered":"sixaxis as joystick and mouse over bluetooth"},"content":{"rendered":"

sixaxisd is a little daemon that will translate sixaxis input, sent via bluetooth, into joystick and (optionally) mouse input.\u00a0 I found it as part of the pdaXrom-ng distro, available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

To set it up, grab the source here<\/a>, unpack, apply the patch from here<\/a> (which fixes a couple of axis mappings) and compile using make.<\/p>\n

You need a kernel with uinput support (Device drivers -> Input device support -> Miscellaneous devices -> User level driver support – or CONFIG_INPUT_UINPUT) and appropriate bluetooth support (I use ps3_defconfig’s defaults in this area), although you don’t need any particular system bluetooth services running – we set that up ourselves.<\/p>\n

To configure the bluetooth device using hciconfig (which is part of Debian’s bluez package), run the following commands –<\/p>\n

hciconfig hci0 up        # bring up the interface\r\nhciconfig hci0 lm master # set link mode to master\r\nhciconfig hci0 piscan    # enable page and inquiry scan<\/pre>\n
And then start the daemon –<\/p>\n
# optional -mouse param provides mouse emulation\r\n.\/sixaxisd -mouse<\/pre>\n
Hit the PS button on the controller to bring it to life – all going well, there device nodes \/dev\/input\/js0 and \/dev\/input\/mouse0 will be created.<\/p>\n
There’s an init script to handle the hci configuration and\u00a0 all of this that may be found in the pdaXrom svn repo<\/a>.<\/p>\n
(I use my sixaxis with my PS3 – if you want to use it with a different system, you’ll need to use sixpair, available here<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
sixaxisd is a little daemon that will translate sixaxis input, sent via bluetooth, into joystick and (optionally) mouse input.\u00a0 I found it as part of the pdaXrom-ng distro, available here. To set it up, grab the source here, unpack, apply the patch from here (which fixes a couple of axis mappings) and compile using make. … Continue reading “sixaxis as joystick and mouse over bluetooth”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,8],"tags":[14,15,13,12],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brnz.org\/hbr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brnz.org\/hbr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brnz.org\/hbr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brnz.org\/hbr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brnz.org\/hbr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=363"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/brnz.org\/hbr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":371,"href":"https:\/\/brnz.org\/hbr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363\/revisions\/371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brnz.org\/hbr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brnz.org\/hbr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brnz.org\/hbr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}