Gamepad with IOS

[Laurin08]

Is there still no workaround to use the gamepad with ios?
The BLE-Mouse library is supporting Ios so i think it should be possible somehow...

[lemmingDev]

Try the xinput fork
https://github.com/Mystfit/ESP32-BLE-CompositeHID

and the xinput example
https://github.com/Mystfit/ESP32-BLE-CompositeHID/blob/master/examples/GamepadExamples/XboxXInputController/XboxXInputController.ino

Let us know how you go

[Laurin08]

Hey
Thank you for your answer!!
I would like to try it but I get several errors while compiling. I think the problem is the NimBLE library, with the older version 2.0.0 I got less errors but still something:

/Users/laurinmichel/Documents/Arduino/libraries/ESP32-BLE-CompositeHID/GamepadDevice.cpp: In member function 'uint8_t GamepadDevice::specialButtonBitPosition(uint8_t)':
/Users/laurinmichel/Documents/Arduino/libraries/ESP32-BLE-CompositeHID/GamepadDevice.cpp:343:20: error: 'invalid_argument' is not a member of 'std'
343 | throw std::invalid_argument("Index out of range");
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
/Users/laurinmichel/Documents/Arduino/libraries/ESP32-BLE-CompositeHID/GamepadDevice.cpp:6:1: note: 'std::invalid_argument' is defined in header ''; did you forget to '#include '?
5 | #include "esp32-hal-log.h"
+++ |+#include
6 | #define LOG_TAG "GamepadDevice"

exit status 1

Compilation error: exit status 1

[lemmingDev]

Might be best to ask on that specific page, though it might target NimBLE below 2.0.0

[Laurin08]

Which nimble version do you use?

[lemmingDev]

NimBLE-Arduino-a79941cc9e77ed60136ee385b1c73d89c847bd94.zip

This is the version that the readme says to use

I just tried and it compiles fine with the xinput sketch, though I don't have an ESP32 handy to test with

Don't forget to also install the Callback library, as indicated in the readme
https://github.com/tomstewart89/Callback

[lemmingDev]

Also, please report back whether or not it works with iOS

[Laurin08]

Hi
Thanks again, I was able to clear the error with adding #include <stdexcept> in the GamepadDevice.cpp file in the Composite-HID library. now it works with the 2.0.0 version of nimble.
And it also works with IOS!

[LeeNX]

@Laurin08 if all is good, do you mind closing the issue?