Gamepad input node for node-red.
node-red running on a linux operating system (will not work on a Windows or Mac system).
This was written for a friend to support gamepad input in node-red. It's been tested on Raspberry Pi OS using a PS4 dual-shock controller, but is otherwise not very well tested.
Provided as-is in the hope it's useful.
It was written to his requirements, so may not do exactly what you want, but feel free to fork it, build on it, and generally do with it what you wish.
Requires the 'joystick' package is installed, eg:
sudo yum install joystick
or
sudo apt-get install joystick
or equivalent, depending on your system's package manager.
Gamepad should be mapped to /dev/input/js0 in most cases - once installed, you can verify you're receiving input by running:
jstest /dev/input/js0
Run the following terminal commands:
cd ~/.node-red
npm i https://github.com/andy-walker/node-red-contrib-gamepad.git
node-red-restart
Once installed, the 'gamepad' node should appear in your palette in the 'function' section.
A demo flow is included in this repo in the 'examples' folder.