Xbox Controller problems

[thesilence]

Hello People of FIRST,

We are having a problem with our Xbox controller. It not is wanting to cooperate and we found out that we need drivers to install into the roborio as far as I know. Would this be the problem or is it something completely different? We are coding in C++ by the way. Forgive me if I posted something wrong or is this is posted somewhere else.

Thank you for all the help,

Bobby Hudock
Team 4601 Canfield Circuit Birds

[Tom Line]

The Xbox controller should connect to your laptop - so you're going to need to install drivers on the laptop so the controller can talk to the laptop.

The laptop will handle sending the data to the roborio.

https://support.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-on-windows/accessories/xbox-controller-for-windows-setup

This is a wired controller, right?

[thesilence]

Yes it is a wired one

[TikiTech]

We have used the xbox and clone by rock candy.

Both have worked very well. In fact we took one apart wired it to various toggle switches and built a custom secondary driver interface.

We have only used them on windows systems, but they are a treated like a standard joystick/gamepad. Some of the buttons will not function. Such as the start, menu and X buttons, the rest work fine.

You should test them in the control panel, joystick/gamepad icon to verify operation in windows.

I find that they behave best by connecting and testing them prior to starting up the robot control systems software.

Good luck!

Aloha