Gamepad/Joystick support

Rion · March 30, 2016 at 7:54 AM

Request for Gamepad and Joystick support in Kodi.

I would like to have the ability to control kodi with a gamepad/joystick if possible.

From my understanding libreELEC & Kodi needs to be compiled with --enable-joystick --enable-sdl in order to support this.

I know or I think I know, that SDL needs X but there has to be a way to make it work without x?

Edit:

Apparently it is possible to have SDL running without X. Basically, your kernel should have framebuffer support and you could use SDL on top of DirectFB.

fishxz · April 13, 2016 at 12:18 PM

i wating for this feature since a looong time. i hope it will finally work, when kodi gets emulator support, because then it doesnt make sense anymore to ship kodi without controller support.

are you on a rpi?

2ami · April 16, 2016 at 3:25 PM

i also really want this feature, my main reason is to control kodi using both thumbs instead of one, and i'm using ps3 controller, no other remote better compare to this joystick

Rion · April 18, 2016 at 12:29 AM

I am using an Atom based box with ion chipset in conjunction with RetroArch addon and ROM Collection Browser.

But I do have a PI3 that I use with RetroPie and Kodi 16 experimental build with joystick support.

But I would like to use both boxes for retro gaming.

**chewitt** · April 18, 2016 at 4:00 AM Official Post

All the fun commits for retrogaming will come with LibreELEC 8.0 (Krypton) builds; alphas will start soon.

H0nch0 · April 18, 2016 at 10:48 AM

Quote from chewitt

All the fun commits for retrogaming will come with LibreELEC 8.0 (Krypton) builds; alphas will start soon.

wooohooooo moan the retro