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| author | Oxore <oxore@protonmail.com> | 2024-01-01 00:36:01 +0300 |
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| committer | Oxore <oxore@protonmail.com> | 2024-01-01 00:36:01 +0300 |
| commit | 502c9e34eef744065855b0e033191f0d8bd4ab73 (patch) | |
| tree | 106272ea03adb18005fbbbe8f68e790af37a3d26 /Readme.md | |
| parent | 7966e9a09f105259188aaf89f799afa2ea33dccd (diff) | |
Add instructions on udev autorun
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@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ Device D0:BC:C1:A2:BE:9F Wireless Controller Perfect! We've got a connection. -## Run +## Run manually First of all you need to be able to open `/dev/uinput` as a user, unless you decided to do everything from root. Do this for your `user` as root if you want @@ -102,7 +102,26 @@ Then run the program like this: ./main /dev/input/event23 ``` -## Usage +## Run automatically via udev + +If you want to run the program every time you connect the gamepad the following instruction may help. Or may not, who knows. At least it worked out for me. + +Copy `ds4-keyboard-udev-autorun.sh` and `main` files from this repo somewhere to be convenient for you. For example I put them both in `/etc/udev/rules.d` directory. + +Create a file `/etc/udev/rules.d/50-ds4.rules` and add the following contents: + +``` +SUBSYSTEM=="input", ATTRS{idVendor}=="054c", ATTRS{idProduct}=="05c4", RUN+="/etc/udev/rules.d/ds4-keyboard-udev-autorun.sh $devpath /etc/udev/rules.d/main" +SUBSYSTEM=="input", ATTRS{idVendor}=="054c", ATTRS{idProduct}=="09cc", RUN+="/etc/udev/rules.d/ds4-keyboard-udev-autorun.sh $devpath /etc/udev/rules.d/main" +``` + +To make `udev` use new rules and re-trigger events to execute them right away without rebooting, you can run the following command as root: + +``` +udevadm control --reload-rules && udevadm trigger +``` + +## Usage Now you can issue keyboard keypresses by pressing some combinations of the gamepad buttons as shown in the following chart: |