Tablet Tilt Joystick

A program that lets you use your tablet's tilting to emulate an actual joystick on a computer. Currently this only works on Linux systems as it uses uinput behind the scenes. It might work on Macs, I haven't got a Mac so I can't test.

It's called tablet tilt joystick but it will work with any handheld device with a reasonably modern web browser and an orientation sensor.

Runs a light web server which you can connect to in a browser on your tablet.

Basic usage

Install with pip (pip3 install tablet-tilt-joystick) then run with python3 -m tablet_tilt_joystick or just tablet_tilt_joystick and connect to <your ip>:4242 on a mobile device to get started. If a suitable image display program is found, it will also show a QR code that you can scan with a mobile device to get to the IP quickly. The joystick will show up in your system as something like python-uinput.

Advanced usage

For advanced usage instructions, run python3 -m tablet_tilt_joystick -h.

Troubleshooting

If your tablet fails to find the server, make sure this program isn't blocked by a firewall. Also try navigating to your computers ip manually on the tablet.

Publishing to pypi:

First install the required packages: pip install build twine.

Then run python -m build from this directory. If there were no errors then run python3 -m twine upload dist/*.

Changelog:

1.2.0

• Command line options to use custom hosting port and suppress displaying QR code

1.1.1

• Fix missing dependencies

1.1.0

• First version published to pypi
• Opens QR code

1.0.0 (not published on pypi)

• Basic functionality of