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joycontrol
Emulate Nintendo Switch Controllers over Bluetooth.
Tested on Ubuntu 19.10 and with Raspberry Pi 4B Raspbian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)
Installation
- Install the dbus-python and libhidapi-hidraw0 packages
sudo apt install python3-dbus libhidapi-hidraw0
- 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
Command line interface example
- Run the script
sudo python3 run_controller_cli.py PRO_CONTROLLER
This will create a PRO_CONTROLLER instance waiting for the Switch to connect.
- Open the "Change Grip/Order" menu of the Switch
The Switch only pairs with new controllers in the "Change Grip/Order" menu.
Note: If you already connected an emulated controller once, you can use the reconnect option of the script (-r "<Switch Bluetooth Mac address>"). This does not require the "Change Grip/Order" menu to be opened. You can find out a paired mac address using the "bluetoothctl" system command.
- After connecting, a command line interface is opened. Note: Press <enter> if you don't see a prompt.
Call "help" to see a list of available commands.
- If you call "test_buttons", the emulated controller automatically navigates 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
- It seems like the Switch is slower processing incoming messages while in the "Change Grip/Order" menu. This causes flooding of packets and makes pairing somewhat inconsistent. Not sure yet what exactly a real controller does to prevent that. A workaround is to use the reconnect option after a controller was paired once, so that opening of the "Change Grip/Order" menu is not required.
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