Raspberry PI, XBox 360 controller, and Relay success!
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I just had a happy moment because this worked.
For those interested, here are the basic steps taken.
Hopefully you find them moderately helpful;
In the console;
sudo apt-get install xboxdrv
sudo xboxdrv --detach-kernel-driver
git clone https://github.com/FRC4564/Xbox.git
Then, in a python file (eg, example.py):
import xbox
import RPi.GPIO as r
from time import sleep
channels = [21, 20, 16, 12] # Change these to whatever GPIO ports you want to use
joy = xbox.Joystick()
try:
r.setmode(r.BCM)
for c in channels:
r.setup(c, r.OUT)
This is just for testing, the whole forloop can be safely removed
for c in channels:
r.output(c, False)
sleep(0.1)
r.output(c, True)
sleep(0.1)
while not joy.connected():
sleep(0.1)
while joy.connected():
r.output(channels[0], joy.A())
r.output(channels[1], joy.B())
r.output(channels[2], joy.X())
r.output(channels[3], joy.Y())
finally:
r.cleanup()
joy.close()
Then simply run it! (Sudo required for GPIO port access)
sudo python example.py