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#node-xboxdrv

This node module creates binding to xboxdrv. The main purpose of this is to create an alternate Xbox controller module which does not rely on node-hid.

##Prerequisites

1. Linux
2. xboxdrv

##Usage ######Note that you should run your program with sudo as xboxdrv may not be able to open the controller otherwise.

var xbox = require('node-xboxdrv');
var controller = new xbox(pid,vid[,options]);

Where pid and vid are the product id and the vendor id for your controller. This can be obtained in the output of lsusb. pid and vid are strings.

Bus 002 Device 002: ID pid:vid Xbox Controller

Options is an optional object with parameters to pass through to xboxdrv. Currently this is its structure with all available options:

{
"type": "xbox360-wireless", //Currently only Xbox 360 controllers are supported. See http://pingus.seul.org/~grumbel/xboxdrv/xboxdrv.html
"deadzone": 3000
}

Then you can attach event listeners to listen for specific controller actions and trigger a callback.

controller.on('a',function(){});
controller.on('rightX',function(data){});

All the relevant input names can be found in config.json.