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NiyaShy / XB1ControllerBatteryIndicator

A tray application that shows a battery indicator for an Xbox-ish controller and gives a notification when the battery level drops to (almost) empty.
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Elite v2 controller support #32

Closed roobre closed 4 years ago

roobre commented 4 years ago

Hello,

Thanks for your work and effort on this project, it's very useful! I wonder if Elite v2 controller is supported. I can tell is detected, but it reports the battery being "Full" no matter how long I play. I haven't checked if this behavior sticks until the battery depletes completely, but I'd say I should have seen more states by now.

Has this been tested against the Elite v2 controller? If not, is there anything I can do to help? I'm not very fluent in C# but the codebase does not seem too complex, so maybe I can give it a try.

Regards!

NiyaShy commented 4 years ago

Hey, as long as it detects a battery level it should work with the Elite v2, but so far I got no feedback on it. Guess not many want to sink so much money into a controller 😉

I can just say from my experience with "normal" XBOne controllers that it can easily take a week or 2 (with ~2-4 hours of playing each day) until the battery level changes. There shouldn't be any coding necessary to support it since any XBox-ish controller can be polled via XInput and should report a decently accurate battery level. But help with coding and suggestions are always welcome nonetheless 😃

roobre commented 4 years ago

Thanks for your response! I got a bit carried away by the "40 hours of gameplay" advertised battery life. After a while the indicator has indeed dropped from Full to Medium, so it looks like it's working nicely. Thanks again for your efforts on this!