690938 - Support Bluetooth controllers for gamepad API

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect)

Description

[(not currently active) Ted Mielczarek]

Currently we only support USB devices. It would be really nice to support bluetooth as well. I'm not sure how much effort this will be, but it'd be great to be able to support things like the Wiimote and DualShock 3.

I'd ideally like to support them on Android as well, but that might be a big enough effort to be spun out into its own bug.

Comment 1

[(not currently active) Ted Mielczarek]

On Mac, using a DualShock 3 over bluetooth works with the existing patches. (you have to have this driver installed to use it at all: http://tattiebogle.net/index.php/ProjectRoot/Ps3Controller )

Comment 2

[(not currently active) Ted Mielczarek]

Just a few random notes:
a) The PS3 controller works without installing a driver now on Mac 10.8 (possibly on 10.7 as well).
b) Android work has been moved to bug 852935, we probably don't need to do anything special to handle bluetooth there.

This bug might actually just be WORKSFORME.

Comment 3

[(not currently active) Ted Mielczarek]

Attachment: Get vendor id and product id on Linux for bluetooth gamepads

I tested a bluetooth gamepad on Linux, and the only issue I had was that the vendor and product ID aren't available in the same way via sysfs/udev. I added some extra checks here and it works fine.

Comment 4

[(not currently active) Ted Mielczarek]

https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/mozilla-inbound/rev/34296a241492

Comment 5

[Ryan VanderMeulen [:RyanVM]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/34296a241492