[mythtv-users] control MythTV with my gamepad?

Steve Hodge stevehodge at gmail.com
Sun Jan 8 20:59:39 UTC 2006


On 1/9/06, Garth Benedict <shrkbait at gmail.com> wrote:
> I also have the P3000.  Fun joystick except one of my batteries died.  I use
> qstick/kbstick as described http://www.ditch.org/kbstick/ It turns the
> joystick moves into keyboard strokes, kind of like lirc.  You configure what
> you want all the buttons to do.  Mine are linked to up/down/home/end, etc.
> The downside is that unless you come up with a kill/restart mechanism, you
> need to convert xmame (or whatever you are using), to use those keybindings
> and NOT the joystick directly.  You actually need to force joystick=0 or
> whatever or else xmame will croak.  The below script lives in my
> /usr/local/bin/ and I link to it in Autostart to start on boot.  I have
> heard of native joystick support in myth but do not knows its status.

Native joystick support works fine in MythTV 0.18. Using it saves you
having to reconfigure xmame. Just stick a joystickmenurc file in
.mythtv/. Mine is attached. Note I've got two joysticks configured in
there and IIRC MythTV doesn't currently support that - it just ignores
the second one.

Steve
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