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mart1nro / joycontrol

Emulate Nintendo Switch Controllers over Bluetooth
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Run controller rest api? #36

Open benhid opened 4 years ago

benhid commented 4 years ago

Hello,

I have successfully tested joycontrol on a Raspberry Pi Zero W (I like its portability and the fact that it has BT and WiFi connectivity built-ins) but every time I want to run the client I have to turn on my computer, create a new ssh session, run the script, etc . It is easy for most of us, but not for some people with limited understanding of Linux (in general).

How difficult could it be to implement a REST API with very basic functionality (just some endpoints to push buttons and check the state)? I'm not familiar with asyncio, so I'm not sure if two async-driven packages could operate together.

Thank you.

diesel701 commented 4 years ago

I would like to use a Pi Zero W too. How are the performances? Is there some lag?

Anyway, I think you can automate the script starting it when the system boot. Then use a while loop for the connection with the Switch, or maybe use some sort of button input to enable the sync. Obviously you need to write your own script. I am working on it during my free time, but I'm waiting for my Pi Zero W for now.

cool00geek commented 4 years ago

I am currently working on a web app to control the Switch from a web browser, and in the process I have exposed a basic API that pushes buttons and sets the joystick positions. At the moment I do not have any way to check the state though. If you have any feedback it would be great!

https://github.com/cool00geek/fakecon

I do believe, like @diesel701 said, to add extra functionality separately instead of baking it into joycontrol directly.

choss commented 4 years ago

I have written a rest api which resides over here:

https://github.com/choss/joycontrol_rest_api

You are free to test it and it would make me happy, if you leave feedback.

dentedghost commented 4 years ago

@choss please check with @mart1nro to see if we can have it added to this repo to extend usability.

choss commented 4 years ago

@dentedghost I think @mart1nro is right here! So if he would like a PR he can just comment right here :) Also I'm taking suggestions and pull-requests, too, if someone wants to add documentation or a setup script to get it easier usable. (Like a bash script with a one file setup)

dentedghost commented 4 years ago

@choss going to test it out. I want to convert https://github.com/SkyoKen/RasCon_NS to leverage your API interface.

mixaal commented 3 years ago

Hi, in case you're interested here's a forked version which can use raspberry pi controller to handle nintendo switch: https://github.com/mixaal/joycontrol

Internally it uses rest api to control NS from multiple input sources.

juharris commented 3 years ago

Wow, looks like a few of us have implemented the same thing. I have a web socket API for joycontrol, and a public site set up where you enter the URL for your sever hosting joycontrol. You can even record macros! Full details and example videos here: https://github.com/juharris/switch-remoteplay EDIT: Just to advertise a bit more, my site supports keyboard, touchscreen, and controllers.