Working on a raspberry pi based robot car right now and wanted to get an xbox controller to control it.

Tried using the python package inputs. Didn’t work

Had to uninstall and reinstall latest version of mac xbox driver

https://github.com/360Controller/360Controller

PyGame ended up working. Then Pickling to serialize and pumping over udp. Here’s the sending and receiving program.

import pygame
import sys
import time
import socket
import cPickle as pickle

UDP_IP = "127.0.0.1"
UDP_PORT = 5005
MESSAGE = "Hello, World!"

print "UDP target IP:", UDP_IP
print "UDP target port:", UDP_PORT
print "message:", MESSAGE

sock = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, # Internet
                     socket.SOCK_DGRAM) # UDP


pygame.init()

pygame.joystick.init()
clock = pygame.time.Clock()

print pygame.joystick.get_count()
_joystick = pygame.joystick.Joystick(0)
_joystick.init()
while 1:
	for event in pygame.event.get():
		if event.type == pygame.JOYBUTTONDOWN:
			print("Joystick button pressed.")
			print event
		if event.type == pygame.JOYAXISMOTION:
			#print _joystick.get_axis(0)
			#print event
			if event.axis == 0: # this is the x axis
				print event.value
			if event.axis == 5: # right trigger
				print event.value
	xdir = _joystick.get_axis(0)

	rtrigger = _joystick.get_axis(5)
	#deadzone
	if abs(xdir) < 0.2:
		xdir = 0.0
	if rtrigger < -0.9:
		rtrigger = -1.0

	MESSAGE = pickle.dumps([xdir,rtrigger])
	sock.sendto(MESSAGE, (UDP_IP, UDP_PORT))

	clock.tick(30)


		

	'''
	print _joystick.get_init()
	print _joystick.get_id()
	print _joystick.get_name()
	print _joystick.get_numaxes()
	print _joystick.get_numballs()
	print _joystick.get_numbuttons()
	print _joystick.get_numhats()
	print _joystick.get_axis(0)
	print _joystick.get_button(0)
	n = _joystick.get_numbuttons()
	axesnum = _joystick.get_numaxes()
	for i in range(axesnum):
		print _joystick.get_axis(i)
		'''

#while(1):
#	for i in range(n):





import socket
import cPickle as pickle

UDP_IP = "127.0.0.1"
UDP_PORT = 5005

sock = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, # Internet
                     socket.SOCK_DGRAM) # UDP
sock.bind((UDP_IP, UDP_PORT))

while True:
    data, addr = sock.recvfrom(1024) # buffer size is 1024 bytes
    print "received message:", pickle.loads(data)