Support for Thrustmaster MFD 1 (button panel)

[Patola]

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Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

I have a ThrustMaster, Inc. F16 MFD 1 (044f:b351), a button panel for flight simulators:

However, when I call antimicrox, although it detects the device, it think it's a gamepad with a few extra buttons. Doesn't seem to detect it right, doesn't count all the buttons (28 total), half of the panel buttons don't do anything on antimicrox screen (e.g. when I press one button, the "L Shoulder" lights up, but no button press makes any of the "Button XX" light up):

I tried go to "controller mapping" but since this button panel has more inputs than a typical controller, I can't map all of it to a virtual gamepad. Besides that, that's not what I want, since it's not meant to be used as a gamepad. I want its buttons properly recognized so I can send keys via antimicrox.

Other programs, like evtest-qt, properly recognize all 28 buttons and react to every button pressed, e.g.

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When using antimicrox and pressing one of the buttons that don't cause changes in the window, I get stuff like this on the terminal:

[13:54:17.390] 🐞DEBUG  Processing event: SDL_JOYBUTTONDOWN From joystick with instance id: 1 Got button with id: 2 is one of the GameControllers: true is one of the joysticks:false (file /src/inputdaemon.cpp:703)
[13:54:17.390] 🐞DEBUG  Processing event: 1626 From joystick with instance id: 2 Got button with id: 3 is one of the GameControllers: false is one of the joysticks:false (file /src/inputdaemon.cpp:703)
[13:54:17.390] 🐞DEBUG  Processing event: 1544 From joystick with instance id: 2 Got button with id: 42 is one of the GameControllers: false is one of the joysticks:false (file /src/inputdaemon.cpp:703)
[13:54:20.381] 🐞DEBUG  Processing event: SDL_JOYBUTTONUP From joystick with instance id: 1 Got button with id: 2 is one of the GameControllers: true is one of the joysticks:false (file /src/inputdaemon.cpp:703)
[13:54:20.381] 🐞DEBUG  Processing event: 1626 From joystick with instance id: 2 Got button with id: 3 is one of the GameControllers: false is one of the joysticks:false (file /src/inputdaemon.cpp:703)
[13:54:20.381] 🐞DEBUG  Processing event: 1544 From joystick with instance id: 2 Got button with id: 3 is one of the GameControllers: false is one of the joysticks:false (file /src/inputdaemon.cpp:703)

Describe the solution you'd like

• Something else than a gamepad appear as a picture and classification of the device I'm using. A button panel preferrably.
• I could see all buttons of the device and could assign all of them to key bindings.

Describe alternatives you've considered

No response

Additional context

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[Patola]

I just tested with qjoypad and I confirm that it recognizes all 28 buttons and responds adequately to them. As it does a similar task to antimicrox I will be using this but I really like antimicrox and would appreciate if it worked with my device.

[Patola]

Forgot to show the "properties" window for the device.

[pktiuk]

Invalid number of buttons is caused by: https://github.com/AntiMicroX/antimicrox/issues/582

it think it's a gamepad with a few extra buttons.

This seems to be a SDL-specific issue