Check Input Device brand name?

Unity Engine
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So, is this the only way to check that information?

if (device.description.deviceClass.Equals("Gamepad"))
{
     if (device.displayName.Equals("Xbox Controller"))
     {
          // Do something blah blah
     }
}

Isn’t there another way less error prone? or at least more standardized name conventions? Input Debugger says it’s an XInputController, while property displayName says it’s an Xbox Controller, and while I know they’re both right, what I don’t know is which to use in this case; does it matter?

I couldn’t find any similar cases in the documentation (the most similar was the case of wanting to detect whether we are using a keyboard or a gamepad).

2

Well I’ve realized the code doesn’t even work lol. I mean, it detects the gamepad, but it doesn’t check the controller name, which again, is part of the problem I’m presenting here.

3 
if (device is Gamepad)
{
    if (device is XInputController)
        ;
}
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Ahhhhh! So that’s it! I did read about the XInputController class, but I thought it was part of Gamepad (I misunderstood that: it actually inherited from Gamepad), so when I tried to use it I couldn’t. Now, being from InputSystem.XInput is something very different. Well thanks again @Rene-Damm !