joycontrol

Emulate Nintendo Switch Controllers over Bluetooth.

Work in progress.

Pairing works, emulated controller shows up in the "Change Grip/Order" menu of the Switch.

Tested on Ubuntu 19.10 and with Raspberry Pi 4B Raspbian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)

Installation

• Install dbus-python package

sudo apt install python3-dbus

• Clone the repository and install the joycontrol package to get missing dependencies (Note: Controller script needs super user rights, so python packages must be installed as root). In the joycontrol folder run:

sudo pip3 install .

• Disable the bluez "input" plugin, see #8

"Test Controller Buttons" example

• Run the script

sudo python3 run_test_controller_buttons.py

• Open the "Change Grip/Order" menu of the Switch
• The emulated controller should pair with the Switch and automatically navigate to the "Test Controller Buttons" menu

Issues

• When using a Raspberry Pi 4B the connection drops after some time. Might be a hardware issue, since it works fine on my laptop. Using a different bluetooth adapter may help, but haven't tested it yet.
• Incompatibility with Bluetooth "input" plugin requires a bluetooth restart, see #8
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Resources

Nintendo_Switch_Reverse_Engineering

console_pairing_session