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Re: logitech dual-action gamepad

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Originally Posted by RoboMaster View Post
If you want to use it with the Control system for a FIRST robot, this is quite easy to do. We have a Logitech gamepad for our team to and it works great. Just acquire data from it the same way you would a normal FRC joystick. The buttons and axis will be switched around though, so I suggest you make a test program to see which buttons react to which default button number.
On another note, the Logitech gamepads I've used in FTC (I know, different realm, but might still be relevant) have always reported negative values from what you'd expect. This might just be signing issues with the NXT/FTC Toolkit, I don't know, but do watch out for that.

Also, as RoboMaster said, the buttons and axes may not necessarily line up how you expect them to. I would suggest making a "wrapper" VI to simplify usage, basically a custom-made VI that contains the regular VI, but outputs the pins to the correct configuration for your gamepad. Then name it something like Gamepad.vi so you can use it more intuitively.
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