8bitdo and flydigi controllers support
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Hi all. I am getting sick of the stick drift on the Xbox and PlayStation controllers, so I've started looking into 3rd party controllers with hall effect. Two kept popping up, flydigi and 8bitdo. If anyone owns one of these, how's their support on Linux? Do they work out of the box? Just plug in the dongle and you're good to go? Are they stable? I don't ever use any other buttons than the main ones, so I think won't need their software. Unless even the main ones needs programming! Do they?
Thanks in advanceI've had a little weirdness from my 8bitdo "xbox" controller, but I think that might be more due to dual booting and using the controller on both OSes rather than an issue with linux itself.
But once I get it connected, it works perfectly.
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Thank you so much. You have also answered a question I've had for the longest time ever. I've been dreaming of making a steam console for my bedroom, but didn't know if it can be woken up by the controller like any regular console. So, thank you.
You're welcome! Sometimes I wake it up with my wireless keyboard, other times I wake it up with the Thunderobot controller. I haven't gotten Bluetooth activity to wake it up, but then again I haven't tried hard.
I had to tweak the configuration so that it would wake up via activity from a USB device. But that's just part of getting used to managing your system's configuration, right?
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Hi all. I am getting sick of the stick drift on the Xbox and PlayStation controllers, so I've started looking into 3rd party controllers with hall effect. Two kept popping up, flydigi and 8bitdo. If anyone owns one of these, how's their support on Linux? Do they work out of the box? Just plug in the dongle and you're good to go? Are they stable? I don't ever use any other buttons than the main ones, so I think won't need their software. Unless even the main ones needs programming! Do they?
Thanks in advanceI use a flydigi vader 3. It's a very good gamepad and works nice out of the box on linux, either wired of wireless using their dongle.
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I've got an 8BitDo controller and while individual application support varies in quality (had some weirdness with Dolphin not playing nice), Steam consistently recognizes it just fine, literally plug n play. Any standard remappings I would typically do through Steam.
I'd used mine for a few years without issue, but recently had a thing where the controller stopped talking to the dongle. The only way i could use it was if i plugged it in. That required a windows executable to fix unfortunately, but the dongle does work again now. And to your point, I needed windows to remap the paddles on the back, but not the standard buttons.
I dont think its a controller problem Dolphin was always weird to me when it was about controller
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Hi all. I am getting sick of the stick drift on the Xbox and PlayStation controllers, so I've started looking into 3rd party controllers with hall effect. Two kept popping up, flydigi and 8bitdo. If anyone owns one of these, how's their support on Linux? Do they work out of the box? Just plug in the dongle and you're good to go? Are they stable? I don't ever use any other buttons than the main ones, so I think won't need their software. Unless even the main ones needs programming! Do they?
Thanks in advanceI have the Flydigi Vader 4 Pro with the USB dongle. And yes, it's plug and play.
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Hi all. I am getting sick of the stick drift on the Xbox and PlayStation controllers, so I've started looking into 3rd party controllers with hall effect. Two kept popping up, flydigi and 8bitdo. If anyone owns one of these, how's their support on Linux? Do they work out of the box? Just plug in the dongle and you're good to go? Are they stable? I don't ever use any other buttons than the main ones, so I think won't need their software. Unless even the main ones needs programming! Do they?
Thanks in advancewrote last edited by [email protected]I use 2 8bitdo ultimate 2c wireless on my steam deck. Had to put the 2.4g dongles on short extension cables because of interference from the dock's USB ports, after that they work flawlessly, both via 2.4g and via bluetooth.
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I use 2 8bitdo ultimate 2c wireless on my steam deck. Had to put the 2.4g dongles on short extension cables because of interference from the dock's USB ports, after that they work flawlessly, both via 2.4g and via bluetooth.
I just ordered this one. This is reassuring. Thank you so much
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I have the Flydigi Vader 4 Pro with the USB dongle. And yes, it's plug and play.
This one is too pricey for me, but I'm definitely keeping an eye on it.
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I use a flydigi vader 3. It's a very good gamepad and works nice out of the box on linux, either wired of wireless using their dongle.
Good to know, as I'm going to keep an eye on the Vader 4
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Hi all. I am getting sick of the stick drift on the Xbox and PlayStation controllers, so I've started looking into 3rd party controllers with hall effect. Two kept popping up, flydigi and 8bitdo. If anyone owns one of these, how's their support on Linux? Do they work out of the box? Just plug in the dongle and you're good to go? Are they stable? I don't ever use any other buttons than the main ones, so I think won't need their software. Unless even the main ones needs programming! Do they?
Thanks in advanceI've got an 8BitDo Pro2. I really like it, but I used to have problems connecting it over Bluetooth (wired would work perfectly fine.)
It just needed a firmware update. You'd probably be fine now (I've had my controller for a long time now, and rarely ever gave it an update), but if you experience connection problems with it, I'd try updating the firmware.
After doing that, my controller has worked like a champ ever since.
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You're welcome! Sometimes I wake it up with my wireless keyboard, other times I wake it up with the Thunderobot controller. I haven't gotten Bluetooth activity to wake it up, but then again I haven't tried hard.
I had to tweak the configuration so that it would wake up via activity from a USB device. But that's just part of getting used to managing your system's configuration, right?
Absolutely. This is what Linux is all about, doing it yourself and learning along the way
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I've got an 8BitDo Pro2. I really like it, but I used to have problems connecting it over Bluetooth (wired would work perfectly fine.)
It just needed a firmware update. You'd probably be fine now (I've had my controller for a long time now, and rarely ever gave it an update), but if you experience connection problems with it, I'd try updating the firmware.
After doing that, my controller has worked like a champ ever since.
Man, this is so freaking refreshing to hear. I don't know why I haven't bought one of these a long time ago. Buying all the MS and Sony garbage that is made to break. I only ever play wired. Rarely do I use/need the Bluetooth. Do these support the gyro requirements on rpcs3? I was playing uncharted the other day and it was telling me to move the controller on some parts of the game, and the Xbox (more of a shitbox controller) doesn't work on it
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I've had a little weirdness from my 8bitdo "xbox" controller, but I think that might be more due to dual booting and using the controller on both OSes rather than an issue with linux itself.
But once I get it connected, it works perfectly.
I do dualboot, but I just use wired since I don't really go anywhere whenever I play.
