Introduction

The Octave joystick package provides basic joystick read/write functions

Requirements

• Octave >= 3.6.0+

• SDL >= 1.2

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 from source forge: 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