Games joystick input (#11917)

* fix(games): correct the high-score announcement argument order

GAMES_HIGH_SCORE_STRING is "New %s high score %lu by %s!" but the arguments
were passed as (name, initials, score): the initials string was formatted
through %lu and the score integer through %s. That is a format/argument
mismatch, so the announcement printed garbage at best and dereferenced the
score as a pointer at worst.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* feat(input): report which physical gamepad button produced an event

A joystick event only carried the action it was mapped to, so a consumer could
not tell two buttons apart once they shared one action, and games were limited
to the handful of actions the broker defines.

Carry the originating evdev button code in InputEvent::kbchar, encoded into a
reserved 0xC0..0xDF range that misses printable ASCII and every
INPUT_BROKER_MSG_ value (SystemCommands switches on kbchar without looking at
inputEvent, so a collision there would reboot the node rather than move a
paddle). D-pad events are axes, not buttons, and keep leaving kbchar at 0 --
which is exactly what lets a consumer tell stick from button.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* feat(portduino): let one joystick action bind several buttons

Input.JoystickButtons took a single evdev code per action, so a pad's A and Y
could not both select, and the shoulder buttons could not sit alongside the
D-pad. Accept a list of codes as well as a bare scalar; the config writer
inverts its code->action map back out, emitting a list only where an action
has more than one button.

ConfigCheck gains a real checker for the section (it was previously waved
through as free-form) covering the three ways a mapping silently does nothing:
an action name the driver does not know, an evdev name where the numeric code
belongs, and one code claimed by two actions. Two fixtures and shell-test
cases cover the clean list form and those three faults.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* feat(games): use the gamepad's extra buttons, and return home when idle

Games now receive the physical button alongside the action, so a pad with more
than two usable buttons controls more than two things:

- Snake: a shoulder button mapped to left/right turns relative to the snake's
  heading (L counter-clockwise, R clockwise) while the D-pad keeps steering
  absolutely. The two are told apart by kbchar, not by hardcoding one pad's
  codes.
- Breakout: the ball now rides the paddle after each serve until the player
  fires it with B or A, so a life is not lost to a ball already in flight when
  the player looks up. The paddle also keeps its position between lives. A game
  can claim BACK for the duration (Game::wantsBackButton) so B serves instead
  of pausing, and releases it once the ball is live.
- Start (BTN_BASE4 / BTN_START) is mapped to select like any other button, so
  it launches games and drives the menus; inside a running game GamesModule
  picks it out of kbchar and pauses instead.

Separately, the games frame no longer holds a walked-away device hostage: after
15 s with no input it returns to the home frame, so the device still reads as a
Meshtastic node. The timer is suspended while a picker or banner is up (e.g.
high-score initials entry, which the input handler never sees) so it cannot
yank the user out mid-entry.

Screen::isInteractionBusy() generalises the old module-intercept check --
modal module, intercepting module, game, or an open interactive overlay --
and MessageRenderer uses it before popping an incoming-message banner. A
transient banner REPLACES an active overlay, so an arriving message could
otherwise discard a half-entered high score. The message is still stored, its
thread still selected, and the unread indicator still set.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* feat(ui): compose freetext on the on-screen keyboard from a gamepad

A gamepad can drive the on-screen keyboard but cannot type, so on a host with
a joystick and no configured keyboard device the OSK is the only way to compose
freetext. Set osk_found there, and gate the "Freetext" menu entries on whether
the device can enter text at all (physical keyboard, OSK, or touchscreen
virtual keyboard) rather than on kb_found alone -- those entries were hidden on
exactly the devices that needed them.

The OSK prompt that CannedMessageModule already had inline in the message
selector becomes showOnScreenKeyboard(), so the menu path can reach it too.
Menus call in from a banner callback and the banner is torn down as soon as
that callback returns, which would take the keyboard down with it, so the menu
path defers the launch to runOnce().

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(games): address review on frame fallback and joystick input gating

Breakout: the paddle suppression was far too broad. aLinuxJoystick is
constructed on every Linux host whether or not a gamepad is configured
(InputBroker.cpp), so `aLinuxJoystick && kbchar == 0` was true everywhere and
swallowed LEFT/RIGHT from the keyboard, trackball and ExpressLRS -- on a host
with no joystick attached at all. Gate on the stick actually driving the paddle
instead: LinuxJoystick assigns heldX before it emits and only auto-repeats while
heldX is set, so every axis LEFT/RIGHT arrives with a zone held and nothing else
does. kbchar == 0 still distinguishes an axis from a shoulder button mapped to
left/right, which must keep nudging the paddle.

Screen: showHomeFrame() did nothing when the home frame was hidden, since
setFrames() only assigns positions.home for !hiddenFrames.home. That stranded
the games inactivity bounce on the frame it was trying to leave. Fall back to
the messages frame, which setFrames() always adds.

Test: rename test_ballWaitsOnPaddleUntilLaunched to
test_ball_waitsOnPaddleUntilLaunched, matching the repo convention and its
neighbours in the file.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(games): give games the whole InputEvent so Breakout can identify the source

Follow-up to review on #11917. The previous narrowing still could not tell
sources apart: kbchar == 0 is shared by the joystick's D-pad axis and by every
other driver that sends a bare LEFT/RIGHT, so while the D-pad was held a
keyboard or touchscreen press was still discarded. heldXZone() proves the axis
is driving, not that this particular event came from it.

Pass the event itself to Game::handleInput() rather than (ev, kbchar). Games
that only care about the action read event->inputEvent; Snake keeps using
kbchar for shoulder steering; Breakout now also checks event->source against
LinuxJoystick's origin name, so only that driver's own axis repeats are
suppressed.

Chose the event over a third positional parameter so the signature does not
have to grow again the next time a game needs something the event already
carries.

All three conditions in Breakout are load-bearing: source says it came from
this gamepad, kbchar == 0 says it is the axis rather than a shoulder button
mapped to left/right, and heldXZone() != 0 says the axis is what is driving
right now so tick() already has it covered.

LinuxJoystick::originName() exposes the name the driver stamps into
InputEvent::source, alongside the existing heldXZone()/heldYZone() accessors.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@@ -37,6 +37,9 @@ constexpr int MAX_NODES_SANITY_CEILING = 16000;
const std::set<std::string> kLoraPinKeys = {"CS", "IRQ", "Busy", "Reset", "TXen", "RXen", "SX126X_ANT_SW", "GPIO_DETECT_PA"};
// Action names LinuxJoystick understands; anything else leaves the button unmapped.
const std::set<std::string> kJoystickActions = {"select", "cancel", "back", "up", "down", "left", "right", "user", "userpress"};
const std::map<std::string, std::set<std::string>> &schema()
{
static const std::map<std::string, std::set<std::string>> s = {
@@ -366,6 +369,61 @@ void checkPinNode(const std::string &file, const std::string &path, const YAML::
}
}
// Keyed by action, not by button, so one action can list several codes and have every one of
// those buttons drive it. The value is a single evdev code or a list of them.
void checkJoystickButtons(const std::string &file, const YAML::Node &node, std::vector<Finding> &findings)
{
if (!node.IsMap()) {
findings.push_back(
{kError, file, lineOf(node), "Input.JoystickButtons must be a mapping of action name to evdev button code"});
return;
}
std::map<int, std::string> owner; // code -> the action that claimed it first
for (const auto &entry : node) {
std::string action = entry.first.as<std::string>("");
for (auto &c : action)
c = tolower(c);
if (!kJoystickActions.count(action)) {
findings.push_back({kWarn, file, lineOf(entry.first),
"Input.JoystickButtons: '" + action +
"' is not a recognised action, so those buttons do nothing. Valid actions are select, "
"cancel, back, up, down, left, right and user"});
continue;
}
std::vector<YAML::Node> codeNodes;
if (entry.second.IsSequence())
for (const auto &codeNode : entry.second)
codeNodes.push_back(codeNode);
else
codeNodes.push_back(entry.second);
for (const auto &codeNode : codeNodes) {
const std::string raw = codeNode.as<std::string>("");
int code = 0;
try {
code = std::stoi(raw, nullptr, 0);
} catch (const std::exception &) {
code = 0;
}
if (code == 0) {
findings.push_back({kWarn, file, lineOf(codeNode),
"Input.JoystickButtons." + action + ": '" + raw +
"' is not an evdev button code (hex like 0x121, or decimal), so it is unmapped"});
continue;
}
// One button cannot do two things: the later action silently replaces the earlier one.
const auto claimed = owner.find(code);
if (claimed != owner.end() && claimed->second != action)
findings.push_back({kWarn, file, lineOf(codeNode),
"Input.JoystickButtons: button " + raw + " is mapped to both '" + claimed->second +
"' and '" + action + "'. Only '" + action + "' takes effect"});
owner[code] = action;
}
}
}
void checkRfSwitchTable(const std::string &file, const YAML::Node &table, std::vector<Finding> &findings)
{
if (!table.IsMap()) {
@@ -837,7 +895,7 @@ void checkSection(const std::string &file, const std::string &section, const YAM
for (const auto &pin : value)
checkPinNode(file, section + "." + key, pin, findings);
} else if (key == "JoystickButtons") {
// Free-form: any action name mapped to an evdev code.
checkJoystickButtons(file, value, findings);
} else if ((section == "Lora" && kLoraPinKeys.count(key)) ||
(section == "Display" &&
(key == "DC" || key == "CS" || key == "Backlight" || key == "BacklightPWMChannel" || key == "Reset")) ||
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@@ -1297,21 +1297,33 @@ bool loadConfig(const char *configPath)
portduino_config.pointerDevice = (yamlConfig["Input"]["PointerDevice"]).as<std::string>("");
portduino_config.joystickDevice = (yamlConfig["Input"]["JoystickDevice"]).as<std::string>("");
if (yamlConfig["Input"]["JoystickButtons"]) {
// action name -> evdev button code (hex like 0x122 or decimal); stored inverted
// as code -> lowercase action name for the driver to look up per keypress.
// action name -> evdev button code (hex like 0x122 or decimal), or a list of codes
// so several physical buttons drive the same action. Stored inverted as
// code -> lowercase action name for the driver to look up per keypress.
for (const auto &button : yamlConfig["Input"]["JoystickButtons"]) {
std::string action = button.first.as<std::string>("");
for (auto &c : action)
c = tolower(c);
int code = 0;
try {
// base 0 accepts hex (0x122) or decimal; a malformed value just skips this entry.
code = std::stoi(button.second.as<std::string>(""), nullptr, 0);
} catch (const std::exception &) {
code = 0;
if (action == "")
continue;
// A bare scalar is just a one-entry list.
std::vector<YAML::Node> codeNodes;
if (button.second.IsSequence())
for (const auto &codeNode : button.second)
codeNodes.push_back(codeNode);
else
codeNodes.push_back(button.second);
for (const auto &codeNode : codeNodes) {
int code = 0;
try {
// base 0 accepts hex (0x122) or decimal; a malformed value just skips this entry.
code = std::stoi(codeNode.as<std::string>(""), nullptr, 0);
} catch (const std::exception &) {
code = 0;
}
if (code != 0)
portduino_config.joystickButtons[code] = action;
}
if (code != 0 && action != "")
portduino_config.joystickButtons[code] = action;
}
}
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@@ -545,9 +545,23 @@ extern struct portduino_config_struct {
if (joystickDevice != "")
out << YAML::Key << "JoystickDevice" << YAML::Value << joystickDevice;
if (!joystickButtons.empty()) {
out << YAML::Key << "JoystickButtons" << YAML::Value << YAML::BeginMap;
// Stored as code -> action; invert so each action lists every code bound to it.
// Several buttons may share one action, so a multi-code action emits a list.
std::map<std::string, std::vector<int>> codesByAction;
for (const auto &button : joystickButtons)
out << YAML::Key << button.second << YAML::Value << button.first;
codesByAction[button.second].push_back(button.first);
out << YAML::Key << "JoystickButtons" << YAML::Value << YAML::BeginMap;
for (const auto &action : codesByAction) {
out << YAML::Key << action.first << YAML::Value;
if (action.second.size() == 1) {
out << action.second.front();
} else {
out << YAML::Flow << YAML::BeginSeq;
for (const int code : action.second)
out << code;
out << YAML::EndSeq;
}
}
out << YAML::EndMap;
}