sanjay900
[Request]: Better Controller name
Please describe your request.
I believe it's a simple request.
I currently use the Santroller with Guitar Hero World Tour Definitive Edition, and I use all 3 instruments (2 guitars and 1 drums) to play with my family and friends.
But I noticed that is a little difficulty to setup all controllers, since all 3 controllers name is showing as "Santroller" only.
Is it possible to add some kind of "second name" like "Santroller Guitar [random ID or something unique]", to help to identify the controllers? This will helpful if the player don't want to play with all instruments all the time and, at least on GHWT, if I play only with drums, the game can randomly bind my Drums to the guitar slot, like the image below
In this example, after bind all controllers properly, I close the game, unplug the 2 guitars, and open again. After that the game automatically put my drums as controller 2, where a guitar is binded previously
What operating system are you using?
Windows 11
os-other
No response
What microcontroller are you making a request for?
pi pico
How will the microcontroller be programed for this request?
N/A
Its not quite as simple as youd hope, especially on windows. Windows does some caching where if a bunch of XInput devices have the same VID and PID, it shares the device name across all of them
Its not quite as simple as youd hope, especially on windows. Windows does some caching where if a bunch of XInput devices have the same VID and PID, it shares the device name across all of them
Oh I also forgot to mentined that I use HID, not xinput. If you want I can share any device info.
But I know that xinput have some specs, but should be very handy to configure and identify devices using multiple adapters 😀
I can probably do it for HID but it just shouldnt be necessary if games are doing things correctly, i do that sort of thing for the serial numbers already which is how most games handle that sort of thing
I can probably do it for HID but it just shouldnt be necessary if games are doing things correctly, i do that sort of thing for the serial numbers already which is how most games handle that sort of thing
Yeah, I imagine that. I faced this issue wirh clone hero and WTDE. (On Clone hero, it always bind my controller to another player, instead the correct one) Since I mostly play WTDE, I'm trying to reach them to report this binding issue as well.
It's interesting because I know rewired (which is what ch uses internally) uses the serial number as part of it's algorithm for pairing controllers, so I don't quite know why it's not working there.
What type of pico are you using?
All my boards are generic Pico boards (not the W ones) all boards are connected using USB cable on my PC
It's interesting because I know rewired (which is what ch uses internally) uses the serial number as part of it's algorithm for pairing controllers, so I don't quite know why it's not working there.
Yeah.. I mean.. The binds still there on CH.. but every time I need to reassign the controllers for each player (since my PC is also my Arcade, I already have 2 arcade sticks and 2 vjoys for my lightguns always connected, but CH always lost the player controller assign and reset to a default one, but the key binds still working fine)
@sanjay900 according to my topic on WTDE on discord, they say that the game uses the controller name to bind the commands...
So probably if each controller have a unique name (or santroller+Type, like Santroller Guitar, Santroller Drums) It should fix the WT issue
Not something thats planned really, games should really just handle this better