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

1. To install from source forge:
   pkg install -forge joystick

2. 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://sourceforge.net/p/octave-joystick/wiki/User%20Manual/

Known limitations and bugs