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I am trying to get my Apex 4 working on my desktop system. This is a really nice $90 controller (if you can find it at MSRP amazon over charges) that strangely works perfectly fine on steam deck but not on desktop linux (at least garuda linux and Vanilla Arch)
The controller has several conection modes:
1. PC xpad wired
not reconized as a controller by linux desktop. Steam deck works perfectly
2. PC dinput wired
Exposes all buttons including the back paddels as individual buttons! no rumble. gryo controlls mouse (share button toogles this)
3. PC xpad dongle
not reconized as a controller by linux desktop (no input device in steam, evtest, jtest). Steam deck works perfectly
4. PC dinput dongle
not reconized as a controller by linux desktop (no input device in steam, evtest, jtest). Steam deck works perfectly
5. PC xpad bluetooth
Reconized as a xbox one controller. Rumble works. no Gryo. share button can't be mapped. Backpaddles use mapping setup in the controllers software (can be mapped on the fly using the on board screen)
6. PC dinput bluetooth
Exposes all buttons including the back paddels as individual buttons! no rumble. unlike wired dinput no gryo mouse
7. Switch wired
not reconized as a controller by linux desktop (no input device in steam, evtest, jtest). Steam deck works perfectly including share back paddles (mapped with software or on board screen),rumble
8. Switch bluetooth
reconized as a switch controller, but it does not recive any input from the controller Steam deck works perfectly including share back paddles (mapped with software or on board screen),rumble, AND EVEN GYRO! (only mode with working gyro)
9. Android bluetooth
Doesn't work on deck or linux desktop
10. iOS bluetooth
this seems to be the same thing as xinput Bluetooth?
As you can see, pretty much all modes work on Steam Deck and it is best to use either xpad wired/dongle or switch wired for minimal latency. Switch Bluetooth fully supports everything the controller has to offer including rumble and gryo.
On Linux desktop, however, Bluetooth Xpad is the closest to fully working (unfortunately, the share key can't be used, and gyro doesn't work)
Dinput Bluetooth/wired is interesting as it exposes all buttons as individual buttons, but there is no rumble support, and I can't figure out how to map the back paddles. I can't get Steam to recognize them.
I tried setting this SDL env var.
SDL_GAMECONTROLLERCONFIG="03000000b40400001224000011010000,Flydigi APEX 4 dinput,a:b0,b:b1,back:b10,dpleft:h0.8,dpright:h0.2,dpup:h0.1,dpdown:h0.4,guide:b15,leftshoulder:b6,leftstick:b12,lefttrigger:a5,leftx:a0,le
fty:a1,paddle1:18,paddle2:17,paddle3:16,paddle4: 14,rightshoulder:b7,rightstick:b13,righttrigger:b9,rightx:a2,righty:a3,start:b11,steam:2,x:b3,y:b4,platform:Linux,"
but that doesn't work
Last edited by zany130 on 27 May 2024 at 4:15 pm UTC
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Maybe there is a problem with the platform detecting the input as a controller or it doesn't want to recognize your controller model specifically, hardly the case though
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everything works including back paddles, rumble, gyro, and share button !!!
only thing is I had to add my user to the `input` group
sudo usermod -a -G input zany130
and I had to uninstall the joycon driver https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/joycond-git as that was "grabbing" my controller and preventing steam from using it.
I guess all of this could be fixed with a udev rule?
EDIT: adding
SDL_HIDAPI_DISABLE_LIBUSB=1
to
/etc/environment
Helps with a few of the modes of the controller not being detected as input devicesLast edited by zany130 on 28 May 2024 at 4:18 pm UTC
4 Multi-mode wired gamepads
.Would be great if steam could automatically do this
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I think it mentions switch mode has the most support for the hardware (gryo) in these controllers.
What I did never get working is wired Xpad mode and dongle Xpad mode (Bluetooth Xpad works). No idea why, works fine on my steam deck :shrug: (Xpad is xbox btw)
also the gamepad page to write a quick and dirty udev rule so I don't need to have my user in the input group
File: /etc/udev/rules.d/71_FlyDigi_Apex4-Switch.rules
SUBSYSTEM=="input", ATTRS{id/product}=="2009", ATTRS{id/vendor}=="057e", MODE="0660", TAG+="uaccess"
no idea why the switch controller rule valve includes with steam doesn't work on my system (it targets the same product and vendor id as apparently flydiji are using the switch pro controller's ids for the apex 4)
File: /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/71-nintendo-controllers.rules
# Nintendo Switch Pro Controller; Bluetooth; USB
KERNEL=="hidraw*", KERNELS=="*057E:2009*", MODE="0660", TAG+="uaccess"
KERNEL=="hidraw*", ATTRS{idVendor}=="057e", ATTRS{idProduct}=="2009", MODE="0660", TAG+="uaccess"
# Grand access for some userspace tools, if connected via USB
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTR{idProduct}=="2009", ATTR{idVendor}=="057e", ENV{ID_INPUT_JOYSTICK}="1", TAG+="uaccess"
# Nintendo GameCube Controller / Adapter; USB
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ENV{DEVTYPE}=="usb_device", ATTRS{idVendor}=="057e", ATTRS{idProduct}=="0337", MODE="0660", TAG+="uaccess"
# Nintendo Switch Joy-Con Charging Grip; USB
KERNEL=="hidraw*", SUBSYSTEM=="hidraw", ATTRS{idVendor}=="057e", ATTRS{idProduct}=="200e", MODE="0660", TAG+="uaccess"
# Nintendo Switch Joy-Con (L); Bluetooth
KERNEL=="hidraw*", KERNELS=="*057E:2006*", MODE="0660", TAG+="uaccess"
KERNEL=="hidraw*", ATTRS{idVendor}=="057e", ATTRS{idProduct}=="2006", MODE="0660", TAG+="uaccess"
# Nintendo Switch Joy-Con (R); Bluetooth
KERNEL=="hidraw*", KERNELS=="*057E:2007*", MODE="0660", TAG+="uaccess"
KERNEL=="hidraw*", ATTRS{idVendor}=="057e", ATTRS{idProduct}=="2007", MODE="0660", TAG+="uaccess"
Last edited by zany130 on 30 May 2024 at 10:00 pm UTC
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For Xpad mode dongle and wired, you need https://github.com/medusalix/xpad-noone if you are using xpad-one
so to summarize
Xpad Wired/Dongle
everything works in this mode, but Gryo (apparently, this only fully works in switch mode on Windows as well unless you have the space station app running) and the circle button
this is also the only mode you get the 1000hz polling rate (super responsive)
Pros:
1. Rumble support
2. really fast polling rate (1000hz)
Cons:
1. No Gryo
2. no circle button
Dinput Wired/Dongle
Dinput wired and dongle mode exposes the most inputs.
you get all the standard buttons but on top of that not only does the circle button register as its own button but so do the paddles!!! meaning you can bind them to what ever you want (even keyboard keys) in something like input-remapper.
circle also acts as a toggle for a gyro mouse, which is cool (you can disable that in input-remapper if you want)
Pros:
1. Back paddles are remappable in programs like input-remapper. It can be set to keyboard keys
2. gyro mouse toggled with the circle button
3. The circle button can be remapped to something else if you want by using something like input-remapper
4. 500hz polling rate, which is still pretty good
Cons:
1. no rumble
2. no controller Gryo (only Gryo mouse with a circle button as a toggle)
3. The poll rate is limited to 500hz and not 1000hz
Switch wired/bluetooth
you might need a udev rule (the switch udev rule from
steam-devices
and game-devices-udev
doesn't seem to work for this controller...Pros:
1. Rumble and gyro work
2. The circle button is mapped to share
Cons:
1. Digital triggers only (only registers full pull or nothing)
2. The lowest poll rate is only 250hz
Xinput/Dinput Bluetooth
works pretty much the same as their wired/dongle counterparts but with a lower polling rate, of course
Xinput Bluetooth was glitchy for me, sometimes refusing to connect, so stick to wired/dongle for this, and Dinput.
Android flashplay
does not work as a controller in this mode. It is intended to be used with their Android app, which allows for fancy things like touchscreen emulation.
All modes
Any configs you set in the Flidigi Station app (including trigger rumble, button mapping, macros, response curves, etc.) work. They can also be changed on the fly with the controller screen.
Button mapping/macros for the back paddles do not work in Dinputs modes since those modes expose the paddle buttons, not what they are mapped to.
Any features that need the app running, like gyro (outside of inputs gyro mouse and switch controller gyro) and DS mode (dual sense mode for adaptive triggers in dual sense games), do not work on Linux.
Last edited by zany130 on 7 June 2024 at 5:57 pm UTC