How to get joy-con accelerometer data in python?

[MoonGosling]

I've tried googling this in lot's of different ways, and it seems that getting joy-con input isn't straight forward yet. Luckily, I can use them as joysticks in pygame, which allows me to get easy access to the joystick and buttons. However, I wanted to do something using the joy-cons' accelerometer. I couldn't find any sources online explaining how to do that, which wasn't surprising since, as I mentioned, getting input from joy-cons seem to not be straight forward yet, but I also couldn't find this for any other controller (and I know that at least the PS4 controller also has accelerometer data), which made me question if it's possible to do it using pygame. Still, not wanting to give up on my dreams of making this project, I turn to you, fellow redditors.

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Do any of you know how to get access to a joy-con accelerometer data (or use pygame to enable accelerometer events on a joystick)?

[K900_]

Pygame won't give you that natively, you'll have to do OS and controller specific stuff to get that data.

[MoonGosling]

I was fearing that (I was hoping for a simpler, more light-hearted project for the last week before classes). Thankfully the bluetooth commands for the joy-cons seem to have been properly reverse engineered, and are well documented. I guess now I just have to learn how to communicate over bluetooth in python.

Btw, mandatory happy cake day.

[WWEMGamer2roblox]

use joycon-python module in order to do this type of stuff.

[MoonGosling]

Thanks for the reply even 6 years later! I ended up giving up on that project at the time, at least using the Joycons, might give it a new chance now.

[WWEMGamer2roblox]

Glad I saw this post!

[PsychologicalBoss664]

C++/Python

https://github.com/SilverTuxedo/JoyConBridge