Support for Multiple Pedal Devices

[megashub]

Biped seems to work great with a single Infinity pedal device, but when I plug in a second device, I'm unable to map its keys or see button presses from it.

How can I manage the configuration of multiple concurrent pedal devices?

[megashub]

@johnnyruz -- someone on the Sinden discord suggested I tag you on this request. I'd happily offer up a bounty on it if the coin would help you prioritize. I don't need a GUI for it, since I'll be running it through a frontend, per game, as needed anyway. Not sure if that makes it any easier, or not. :) Let me know?

[megashub]

Sinden discord user Hexxed writes:
"Looked through the code for a minute and it enumerates all devices with the vid and pid but uses the first one. All it would take is to grab [all unique instances] instead and assign them to [their own] devices. Could likely even set an array of them from the looks of it.

Saving the values from each unique device and pulling them up shouldn't be that hard either."

from there, for commandline, if the user can supply a label for each device and reference it in an argument, such as -device [label] then I could just repeat that command for each label, for a given game.

Example:

biped2.exe -device [label1] -left [keycode] -middle [keycode] -right [keycode]
biped2.exe -device [label2] -left [keycode] -middle [keycode] -right [keycode]

Or, you could take the same approach as Ultimarc does with their UltraMap tool, and first have the user map detected devices to a numbered position, then use a cfg directory, which allows the user to predefine button mappings per position, per use case.

Example:

\biped.cfg (or registry entries, whatever) contains:
Position1=[uniquedeviceID1]
Position2=[uniquedeviceID2]

cfg\timecrisis3.cfg contains:
Position1=[leftkeycode],[middlekeycode],[rightkeycode]
Position2=[leftkeycode],[middlekeycode],[rightkeycode]

Commandline would then be:
biped2.exe -cfg timecrisis3.cfg

[madmodder123]

I was gonna try to work on this, but one of the pedals I got was dead so I ended up just doing the Arduino FrankenPedal mods to them.
https://github.com/johnnyruz/barrel_arcade/tree/main/FrankenPedal
Wired FrankenPedal video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTvxHF_ZBjA
Wireless FrankenPedal video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jShPcE2qqPA

I was gonna see if I could use this code to handle the multiple pedals: https://github.com/Slion/SharpLibHid

[megashub]

I was gonna try to work on this, but one of the pedals I got was dead so I ended up just doing the Arduino FrankenPedal mods to them.
https://github.com/johnnyruz/barrel_arcade/tree/main/FrankenPedal
Wired FrankenPedal video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTvxHF_ZBjA
Wireless FrankenPedal video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jShPcE2qqPA

I was gonna see if I could use this code to handle the multiple pedals: https://github.com/Slion/SharpLibHid

Thanks for being willing to take a stab at this, and for sharing the code you were thinking about using. I wonder, does it really matter what type of HIDs we use here? Can it really just be any two identical devices (e.g. mice, etc)... and shouldn't it all just work the same way?

[megashub]

I was gonna try to work on this, but one of the pedals I got was dead so I ended up just doing the Arduino FrankenPedal mods to them. https://github.com/johnnyruz/barrel_arcade/tree/main/FrankenPedal Wired FrankenPedal video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTvxHF_ZBjA Wireless FrankenPedal video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jShPcE2qqPA

I was gonna see if I could use this code to handle the multiple pedals: https://github.com/Slion/SharpLibHid

Just checking in again to see if you happened to make any headway on this? Let me know if a bounty would help with prioritization.

[madmodder123]

I decided to gut my pedals and use an arduino inside, see the FrankenPedal repo posted above

[megashub]

I'm leery about damaging them trying to get them apart, and the video makes it look very difficult to do. Can you share some details about how it went for you, and any tips and tricks?For anyone else, I still think it's a good idea to evolve biped as summarized above, as it would help folks who don't want to hack apart these pedals just use them as is.  On Sun, Jan 30, 2022 at 3:43 AM, madmodder123 ***@***.***> wrote: I decided to gut my pedals and use an arduino inside, see the FrankenPedal repo posted above —Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub, or unsubscribe.Triage notifications on the go with GitHub Mobile for iOS or Android. You are receiving this because you authored the thread.Message ID: ***@***.***>

[wtienchai]

Probably a long shot, but it would be great to see multidevice support. The frankenpedal mod also looks a bit beyond my technical expertise.

[inigomonyota]

Currently working on this, going well so far. Couple issues to iron out.

[megashub]

Currently working on this, going well so far. Couple issues to iron out.

Amazing news! Thanks for working on this. If you have a ko-fi, let me know and I'll happily throw you a few bucks for your help.

[inigomonyota]

So updated UI, .NET 4.8, bunch of usability things, reset/unbind button, i'll update my fork soon

[inigomonyota]

Fork updated https://github.com/inigomonyota/Biped

[megashub]

Fork updated https://github.com/inigomonyota/Biped

Awesome. I'll take a look!

Earlier in this thread, I made the following enhancement suggestion:

have the user map detected devices to a numbered position, then use a cfg directory, which allows the user to predefine button mappings per position, per use case.

Example:

\biped.cfg (or registry entries, whatever) contains: Position1=[uniquedeviceID1] Position2=[uniquedeviceID2]

cfg\timecrisis3.cfg contains: Position1=[leftkeycode],[middlekeycode],[rightkeycode] Position2=[leftkeycode],[middlekeycode],[rightkeycode]

Commandline would then be: biped2.exe -cfg timecrisis3.cfg

Any chance this could be added too?

[inigomonyota]

trying to get that going now as a matter of fact

idea being if you launch without and -cfg specified it launches a default.cfg

f you leave running and do biped2.exe -cfg otherconfig.cfg it just switches to that config without showing the window or anything

[inigomonyota]

ok my fork i added hotplugging support, profiles and profile management, hardware mapped by way of port you plugged it into (i think)

-silent, -cfg flags, so on and so forth

my ko-fi is inigom0ntoya btw if you feel like tipping