Would it work via IOKit? I have been hesitant to use IOKit so far because I was hoping to resolve this issue without it, being a very lowlevel API. But it still needs to be active to get GCController events, then the game would not get events.Īre there any other options to receive game controller inputs which the app is inactive? I thought maybe I could show the panel above the fullscreen game in a corner somehow. The panel stays afloat but it still becomes inactive when I click elsewhere. In my third attempt I tried to make the main window an NSPanel in HUD style. However, there are a couple nil peripherals which I suppose are auxiliary peripherals from Apple devices such as the Magic Mouse or the Wireless Keyboard. I find devices around the house (iPads, iPhones, smart tv's, computers), but no peripheral that identifies itself as Nimbus. But the controller does not even show up in a scan, either with the controller being connected or disconnected. In my second attempt I used CBCentralManager to discover the controller, hoping I could work with it using standard Bluetooth services. In my first attempt I used GCController but as soon as the app becomes inactive no more events are received from the controller.

The SteelSeries Nimbus is reminiscent in form and function to the controllers from Microsoft and Sony.

The Nimbus also works with OS X 10.9 or later Macs. I am attempting to write a small helper app for macOS that captures the input of a Nimbus Steel Series game controller and converts it to keyboard and mouse events for another application (a game that does not support controllers). It is compatible with the following iOS devices iPhone 5 and later, iPad 4 and later versions and fifth-gen iPod Touch to current generation.

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