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From looking at the helpful statistics, and the fact that I'm looking to buy new not used, it looks like my main alternatives are the Xbox One and the Dualshock 4. Or are there any other contenders worth considering?
The plan is to use it mostly for racing games, as an alternative for the wheel when I don't feel like digging it out of the linen closet (which is most of the time).
Is one preferential to the other in terms of supported features and ease of setup? The Dualshock have gyroscope and accelerometer, I don't know it that's a plus for racing games?
All suggestions welcome, preferably on topic, but if someone wants to share advice on how to get blueberry stains out of satin jammies I won't complain.
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Thanks for the feedback!
The gyro does sound like it's worth a try, so I went with the Dualshock, at least for now. If it turns out to be incompatible with my lumberjack appendages I'll return it and try the Xbox one next.
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Have you thought about the Logitech F510 maybe ? (or F310)
Almost everything seems to be working, wired-, wireless, analog/digital controls, sound jack, touchpad, reading battery level. The only exception is the motion stuff.
It shows up as a separate input device, "Wireless Controller Motion Sensors" and I can read events with evtest. Clearly the hardware and driver is working, but no games let me use motion as an input source. Possibly it only works with games that explicitly supports a motion sensor and not as a general controller?
The Logitech devices I must admit to have failed to even consider. Its sometimes a little bit hard to figure out how well a device is supported. Maybe a GOL buyers guide for controllers past the Steam Controller era would be a good idea?
It creates a virtual XBOX 360 controller for the system and games to see though, so games which automatically enable PS controller icons might not show them, which is annoying.
I set it up to control the left stick using gyro yaw and it seems to work nicely for racing games. Now for the learning curve. Back to the Miss Daisy driving style.
You also need to add yourself to the input group if you want to use the DS4 via Bluetooth. Run sudo usermod -a -G input yourUserName. I needed to restart the system for the group to take, logging out and back in was not enough.
/etc/udev/rules.d/ds4.rules:
SUBSYSTEM=="input", KERNEL=="event*", ATTRS{name}=="*Motion Sensors", TAG+="uaccess"
SUBSYSTEM=="input", KERNEL=="event*", ATTRS{name}=="*Controller Touchpad", TAG+="uaccess"
The commands "
udevadm control --reload-rules && udevadm trigger
" - should be enough to trigger the change, if you restart the controller.Unfortunately now my trigger buttons are no longer analog, and I haven't been able use the gyro as a stick. Though it still works for aiming.