{"id":340,"date":"2018-11-03T21:02:21","date_gmt":"2018-11-03T21:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tstableford.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=340"},"modified":"2018-11-03T21:02:21","modified_gmt":"2018-11-03T21:02:21","slug":"xbox-360-chatpad-as-linux-keyboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tstableford.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=340","title":{"rendered":"XBox 360 Chatpad as Linux Keyboard"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just finished a program and a library to use an XBox 360 Chatpad as a Linux keyboard using the input sub-system. This means it acts exactly like a native keyboard and works with even framebuffer terminals. I’ve used it on my laptop with a USB serial adapter and on a Raspberry Pi.<\/p>\n

Usage and more details can be found on the Github page here: https:\/\/github.com\/timstableford\/chatpad-linux<\/a><\/p>\n

Just as a warning for some reason one of my USB serial adapters didn’t work properly with the keyboard and I had to try another.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I just finished a program and a library to use an XBox 360 Chatpad as a Linux keyboard using the input sub-system. This means it acts exactly like a native keyboard and works with even framebuffer terminals. I’ve used it on my laptop with a USB serial adapter and on a Raspberry Pi. Usage and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[25,26,15,27,24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tstableford.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tstableford.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tstableford.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tstableford.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tstableford.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=340"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tstableford.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":341,"href":"https:\/\/tstableford.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions\/341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tstableford.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tstableford.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tstableford.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}