Xbox Controller Interface

Simple interface to Xbox controller using Node.js

Installing

npm install xbox-controller-node

If you have problems with the instalation of the node-hid these links can be usefull:

• Prerequisites of node-hid node-hid prerequisites
• node-gyp wiki documentation for windows node-gyp wiki

Linux Requirements

Ubunto based distributions

• libudev-dev
• libusb-1.0-0-dev

sudo apt-get install libudev-dev && sudo apt-get install libusb-1.0-0-dev 

Fedora based distributions

• kernel-modules-extra
• joystick
• libusbx-devel

sudo yum install kernel-modules-extra
sudo yum install joystick
sudo yum install libusbx-devel

Usage

See the complete API Xbox Controller API.

varxbox=require('xbox-controller-node');xbox.on('a',function(){console.log('[A] button press');});xbox.on('a:release',function(){console.log('[A] button release');});xbox.on('start',function(){console.log('[Start] button press');});xbox.on('left',function(){console.log('[LEFT] button press');});xbox.on('left:release',function(){console.log('[LEFT] button release');});xbox.on('upright',function(){console.log('[UPRIGHT] buttons combination press');});xbox.on('leftstickpress',function(){console.log('[LEFTSTICK] button press');});//Manage sticks eventsxbox.on('leftstickLeft',function(){console.log('Moving [LEFTSTICK] LEFT');});xbox.on('leftstickLeft:release',function(){console.log('Released [LEFTSTICK] LEFT');});xbox.on('leftstickRight',function(){console.log('Moving [LEFTSTICK] RIGHT');});xbox.on('leftstickRight:release',function(){console.log('Released [LEFTSTICK] RIGHT');})xbox.on('leftstickDown',function(){console.log('Moving [LEFTSTICK] DOWN');});xbox.on('leftstickUp',function(){console.log('Moving [LEFTSTICK] UP');});xbox.on('rightstickLeft',function(){console.log('Moving [RIGHTSTICK] LEFT');});xbox.on('rightstickLeft:release',function(){console.log('Released [RIGHTSTICK] LEFT');});xbox.on('rightstickRight',function(){console.log('Moving [RIGHTSTICK] RIGHT');});xbox.on('rightstickDown',function(){console.log('Moving [RIGHTSTICK] DOWN');});xbox.on('rightstickUp',function(){console.log('Moving [RIGHTSTICK] UP');});

You can test the API running:

npm test

Configuration

If the button commands coming wrong you can configure your own controller interface.

varxbox=require('xbox-controller-node');xbox.configure();

This will launch a server page on browser to you configure your controller. The page will be available on http://localhost:3000. See the complete Configuration Guide.

Just the first step

Yes. The triggers are not mapped :(. For this... contributions and improvements are very welcome. Thanks for see this.

License

Copyright (c) 2015 Matheus Paiva (MIT) The MIT License