Re: [Maemo 5] Accelemymote: making your accelerometer more joy-ful
 

I haven't looked at the sixaxis setup in detail but from what you describe, i suspect that they are providing the same file in their package, so the package manager sees that another package would collide and refuses to let you install it. All it requires is for the sixaxis maintainer to either depend on the joydev package instead of installing the module, or to mark the package as "Provides" joydev. If his package advertises itself as providing the virtual package "joydev", the accelemymote package that depends on "joydev" will happily install and use that module. The first option is better because there are obviously cases where someone would want to uninstall the sixaxis package and not the accelemymote package, and that wouldn't be possible with the latter option.

Maybe you can point him to this post so he's aware of the problem?

Edit: of course individual users can "force" the install, which should work fine, but that's not a solution.

Re: [Maemo 5] Accelemymote: making your accelerometer more joy-ful
 

are you able to elaborate how to do this?? thanks! i think i may have tried this?? apt-get -f install???

Re: [Maemo 5] Accelemymote: making your accelerometer more joy-ful
 

http://linux.die.net/man/8/apt-get

--ignore-missing might do it. I've never had to do it for a package i didn't have as a .deb file, so i use dpkg. See dpkg --force-help for more information.

Re: [Maemo 5] Accelemymote: making your accelerometer more joy-ful
 

downloaded *.deb, did dpkg --force-all -i accelemymote.deb....... installed i think... thanks HEAPS

EDIT: okay found config file.. but I get this error when running app from xterm.

trigger file /home/user/.accelemymote/live-trigger specified; file not found... shutting down.

EDIT: dont know what i did but i ran thru menu shortcut, checked in top and it was there and works!! but in doom, if i want to config 'actions' is that possible?? i.e. make left/right strafe instead of turn??? tHANKS :D

actually im guessing thats not posible if this acts as a joystick, not keyboard

IMHO i think the name Accelemote would be much better for this app..! :D

Re: [Maemo 5] Accelemymote: making your accelerometer more joy-ful
 

Probably best not to make a habit of that, which i'm sure you know. ;)

It wasn't an error, it was simply letting you know that it didn't have any reason to live... tragic.

Seriously, though, you were probably running the binary executable instead of the script.

/opt/maemo/usr/bin/accelemymote.sh is the toggle script. Run it with an "&" at the end to start it up, and then run it again when you are done.

Limited to the controls the app gives to joystick. PrBoom maps four joystick buttons to actions, so that's one way to approach it for future versions. There's also potential for keyboard mode.

Less of a mouthful but less shades of "maemo".

Re: [Maemo 5] Accelemymote: making your accelerometer more joy-ful
 

i did run
/opt/maemo/usr/bin/accelemymote.sh
in xterm! ??

it works fine, just doesnt install properly for me.. keeps saying it has an update..

Re: [Maemo 5] Accelemymote: making your accelerometer more joy-ful
 

Yes, it's quiet hard to control. When you turn left or right, it's moving to fast. To move foward you need to keep the device parallel to the groud that is not confortable, it would be more easy to play if it was moving forward when the device is 45 degres from the ground, could it be possible ?

Sorry for my bad english, just trying to hell p ;)

There's a setting for that in the main.cfg file:
I realize that's not user friendly yet, but you would set it to "45" in your case.

As for the speed of side movement... are you saying it should actually go slower than when you push "left" and "right" on the keyboard?

I guess what you're asking is analog control. Right now it only works as a "hat" (up/down/left/right) rather than an analog stick, so that might be fixed when i finish the analog profile... if prboom supports that.

An update? oO It's a simple script... you run it once, it starts the daemon and creates the live-trigger; you run it again, it deletes the live-trigger, shutting down the daemon. Run it with an "&" at the end so it doesn't block.

Re: [Maemo 5] Accelemymote: making your accelerometer more joy-ful
 

Ok, i'll try to change it to 45.
where do i find the .accelemymote/main.cfg please ?

Re: [Maemo 5] Accelemymote: making your accelerometer more joy-ful
 

It would be easier in your case to use sed. Copy and paste this line into xterm:
sed -i 's/\(offset_pitch *= *\)[0-9]*\(.*\)/\145\2/' ~/.accelemymote/main.cfg
Change the part that says 45 to something like 30 if it ends up being too much.