Mouse cursor disappears in Windows 11 When I plug an Xbox controller in?

[beau76]

Hi all, I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong here, but I would like to use an Xbox controller for the mouse cursor on A PC Every time I plug the controller into the HID remapper, the mouse cursor disappears in Windows 11

[jfedor2]

Disable "Unmapped inputs passthrough" before you plug the controller in.

There's a configuration that you can use as a starting point in the Examples tab.

(If you're using an Xbox controller you'll probably want to change input_state to input_state_scaled everywhere. I need to update this.)

[beau76]

OK i'm not sure what I did wrong but when I did that and then I tried plugging in the controller the mouse goes to the upper left hand corner of the screen and just sticks up there and I can't even move it with the mouse that is connected to the computer If I reload the firmware on the board will this reset it so that I can plug it in and program it further because if I plug it back in now even with the controller not plugged in the masses ghosted upper left corner and I cannot control it at all

[jfedor2]

No, it will remember the configuration if you flash the firmware again.

You can flash this file to wipe the board:

https://datasheets.raspberrypi.com/soft/flash_nuke.uf2

You will then have to flash the firmware again.

[beau76]

Hi will that firmware work on Adafruit Feather RP2040 with USB Type A Host
thanks

[jfedor2]

The flash_nuke one? Yes.

[jfedor2]

On second thought, the Feather board has 8 MB of flash and flash_nuke might only clear the first 2 MB because that's how much a Pico has. And we're storing the configuration near the end of the flash.

If that doesn't work you can try this, it should wipe the entire flash:

https://github.com/Gadgetoid/pico-universal-flash-nuke/releases/download/v1.0.1/universal_flash_nuke.uf2

[beau76]

I have tried both of those files and it's still acting as it was before where the mouse cursor is just sticking up in the one corner is there anything else I could do to try to rescue this board

[jfedor2]

These nuke files take some time to do their thing so after copying them you have to wait until the RP2-RPI drive shows up, don't unplug the board.

You can also navigate the configuration website with keyboard and save a blank config to the device.

[jfedor2]

I don't know about Edge, but in Chrome you can do it with tab and perhaps arrow keys.

[beau76]

Hi I was able to use the keyboard and get into good profile
Then once I made the change for the pass through I could hook up the joystick and look at it and the monitor Here are the values that I was seeing when I moved the joystick around

Those numbers look quite a bit different from the numbers that I was seeing when I looked at the video where you were showing a joystick hooked up so I'm not sure why they would be that much different

[jfedor2]

This is because Xbox controllers use a range of -32768..32767 for its sticks where most other controllers use 0..255.

It's not a problem in itself, but you need to change input_state to input_state_scaled everywhere in the expressions like I mentioned earlier.

If you're worried it will hijack your mouse again you can use the Caps Lock LED trick to try and maintain sanity:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3eKBoJzuIU

[beau76]

OK which profile would you start with?

[jfedor2]

Sorry, what?

[beau76]

What example from the HID remember website can I start with that would let me take the output from that joystick and turn it into mouse movement

[jfedor2]

"expressions: gamepad-to-mouse adapter"

Change input_state to input_state_scaled everywhere in the expressions.