How can I detect if a gamepad is present?

Questions & Answers
1

I need to detect if currently connected. From there, I will remove the second player if it isn’t.

2

On PC, you can use Input.GetJoystickNames(), which returns an array of strings of the names of the joysticks that are connected. If that array is empty, there are no pnp joysticks connected, I guess.

I hope that helps!

I’m currently trying to figure out how to tell if there is a Bluetooth joystick connected on an Android device, but that information doesn’t seem to be quite as handily available.

3

FYI, on PC I’m finding some GamePads (MOGA for example) stay registered as connected in Windows 10 — even months later. And generate an Axis value if -1,-1.

Not sure if that helps anyone else. But I’ll probably create an exception where until a joysticks value changes for the first time it continues to consider them disabled.

4

you can do this in C#

private int Xbox_One_Controller = 0;
    private int PS4_Controller = 0;
void Update()
{
string[] names = Input.GetJoystickNames();
        for (int x = 0; x < names.Length; x++)
        {
            print(names[x].Length);
            if (names[x].Length == 19)
            {
                print("PS4 CONTROLLER IS CONNECTED");
                PS4_Controller = 1;
                Xbox_One_Controller = 0;
            }
            if (names[x].Length == 33)
            {
                print("XBOX ONE CONTROLLER IS CONNECTED");
                //set a controller bool to true
                PS4_Controller = 0;
                Xbox_One_Controller = 1;

            }
        }


if(Xbox_One_Controller == 1)
{
//do something
}
else if(PS4_Controller == 1)
{
//do something
}
else
{
// there is no controllers
}
}