macOS gamepad support

[kotleni]

https://github.com/LizardByte/Sunshine/blob/08d623ce44f77061a26de9dc50a2aef60f1b6158/src/platform/macos/input.cpp#L290
What about gamepad support on macOS? Is this worth the wait?

[kotleni]

I started developing gamepad support on macOS. This is already working great.
After the refactoring, I plan to make a Pull Request.

[ReenigneArcher]

Thank you, this will be a great addition to Sunshine! Please make your PR against our nightly branch.

[kotleni]

Thank you, this will be a great addition to Sunshine! Please make your PR against our nightly branch.

Okay. But first I need fix some bugs. (buttons have wrong mapping)

[kotleni]

Done

[deanezra]

@kotleni did you put up a pull request in the end? I would love to build and try this out on my mac m2

[ReenigneArcher]

@deanezra It's not really useable, but there is the following:

• https://github.com/LizardByte-research/VirtualHID-macOS
• macOS gamepad support Sunshine#756

[Githsams]

Hello, is gamepad working on sunshine for mac now ?

[ReenigneArcher]

No

[kotleni]

Not yet, not yet... 😞

[actstorms]

I hope this will be integrated.

[Rickyr921]

Any luck on this? Been checking this thread regularly in hopes that I won’t need to buy a secondary machine for only streaming games when my Mac already runs them well. 🙏🙏🙏

[ReenigneArcher]

No one is working on this.

[ramirocantu]

I'd like to try working on this. any pointers would be helpful.

I found the game controller documentation on Apple's website. I can try my hand at this this week.

I'm a highschool teacher and usually pretty busy and I dont have much experience with mac development, but I hope that this can be pretty doable and a good way to get my feet wet.

[Hazer]

@ramirocantu I don't think game controller docs are what you're looking for. The Game Controller API is for an app to receive and use the inputs, but sunshine receives them from the network. Sunshine needs to actually execute the inputs to the OS host, so games and apps can receive, and the GameController API can't execute to OS, just the App that it is running will receive events.

I believe what you're looking for is actually DriverKit, and doing something similar to noah-nuebling/mac-gamepad-driver, but instead of supporting physical xbox360 controllers, supporting a virtual controller that Sunshine implements.

[riiswa]

@ramirocantu did you start working on it? I can also help if you need :)

[kotleni]

@ramirocantu @riiswa LizardByte/Sunshine#756

[riiswa]

@kotleni what was your VirtualHID ?

[ReenigneArcher]

I forked it before it was deleted: https://github.com/LizardByte-research/VirtualHID-macOS