Introduction

The Octave joystick package provides basic joystick read/write functions

Requirements

• Octave >= 4.0.0+

• SDL >= 1.2 (SDL1, 2 and 3 should work, but requires the dev headers to be installed)

*NOTE: in fedora, the joysick drivers must be enabled so that it will load them:

dnf install joystick-support*
sudo usermod -a -G input username

Installing

To install, run the octave package manager:

1. If running Windows, the package may already be installed:

   pkg list joystick

2. To install with an internet connection available:

   pkg install -forge joystick

3. To install from a local tarball.

   pkg install joystick-XXXXXXX.tar.gz

   Where XXXXXXX is the version of the the downloaded tarball.

Usage:

1. Load the package.

   pkg load joystick

   (Required each time Octave is started)

2. List available joystickes

   vrjoysticklist

3. Get a joystick to manipulate using the id

   joy = vrjoystick(1)

Documentation

• https://gnu-octave.github.io/octave-joystick/functions

Known limitations and bugs

• https://github.com/gnu-octave/octave-joystick/issues