controller-companion 0.7.0

Python app for assigning shortcut actions to game controllers.

Controller Companion

Easily map controller shortcuts to an action. The following actions are supported:

• Kill a task by its name.
• Execute a keyboard shortcut.
• Execute an arbitrary console command.

Features

• GUI and CLI options available
• Supports a wide variety of controllers (those supported by pygame)
• Runs on Windows, Linux and Mac
• Auto start on system boot (windows only for now)
• GUI app can be compiled as a standalone executable (using PyInstaller)

Screenshots

Main Window

Create a new shortcut

How to Install

• Using pip:

  pip install controller-companion
  

• For the GUI version, executables are additionally available here for Windows, Mac and Linux. In addition for windows, an installer is available.

How to run

• CLI and GUI versions available
• CLI:

  • Multiple mappings can be created.

  • One or multiple input controller key combination that triggers an action can be defined using --input. The keys of one individual input combination are separated by commas, while each distinct input combination is separated by a space.

  • One or multiple actions can be defined using either --task-kill, --console or --shortcut. These actions will be mapped to the previously defined controller --input key combinations in the order --task-kill, --console and finally --shortcut

  • Example with 2 mappings:

    controller_companion --input A,B Back,Left --console explorer.exe --shortcut alt+f4
    

    will result in the following mapping:

    Controller<A,B> --> Action<name: Run command "explorer.exe", target: explorer.exe, type: CONSOLE_COMMAND>
    Controller<Back,Left> --> Action<name: Shortcut "alt+f4", target: alt+f4, type: KEYBOARD_SHORTCUT>
    

  • Run controller_companion --help to see all available arguments

Build Executable

With poetry installed, run the following command to build the executable using PyInstaller:

poetry run build_controller_companion_executable

Credits

• Gamepad button icons: https://80.lv/articles/free-button-icons-for-unreal-engine-and-unity