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PS5 DevLoop: a virtual controller and screen capture for unattended PS5 development

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A resident payload (ps5loop, port 9112) and a Python client that let a script
or an AI agent press buttons on a jailbroken PS5 and see what its screen shows.

- pad: a system-wide virtual DualSense through scePadVirtualDevice*, bound to
  the foreground user and made the controller titles read
- grab: the running title's own frame, through a request file the title answers
- shot: the console's screenshot, deleted afterwards through libSceContentDelete
- AGENTS.md: the operating guide for agents, and how to give a title the grab hook

Tested on firmware 13.60.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_017LYNPMseS8c9yDQh8GWSGZ
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# The console on your network. Copy to .env (ignored by git).
PS5_HOST=192.168.x.x
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# Working with PS5 DevLoop
For an agent, or a person, driving a jailbroken PS5 with nobody at the pad. Read
this before the first command; `README.md` says how it works and what was
measured.
## The loop
```bash
tools/ps5loop.py load # once per console boot (the ELF loader must be up, port 9021)
tools/ps5loop.py open # the virtual pad; disconnects a real controller (PS reconnects it)
tools/ps5loop.py seq down down cross:300 wait:1000
tools/ps5loop.py grab # in a title: its own frame
tools/ps5loop.py shot # anywhere else: the console's screenshot
tools/ps5loop.py close
```
Look, press, look. Never assume a press landed: a menu's default is not always
the first entry (Quake's "Exit game?" starts on NO), and a title takes a moment
after launch before it reads the pad.
## Which picture
| | `grab` | `shot` |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Shows | what the running title drew | the whole screen: home, dialogs, any title |
| Takes | about 1 s | about 3 s |
| Needs | the hook in the title, and a line in `titles.json` | the pad open |
| Leaves on the console | nothing | nothing (the capture is deleted through the system) |
**In a title, use `grab`.** Use `shot` for the home screen and system dialogs, or
for a title that has no hook yet. To learn whether a title is still running, ask
the launcher payload you use (PS5_Vulkan's ps5vkctl: `status`), not a picture.
**When you start work on a title that `titles.json` does not list, give it the
hook first** (below). It is a few lines, and every look at the title afterwards
is three times quicker. Do not settle for `shot` in a title you can build.
## Giving a title grab
The contract, which the payload's `grab REQUEST FOLDER` drives:
1. Once every few frames the title tries to remove a request file in its own
folder, `/app0/devloop-shot`. Removing it is the check: one system call, which
fails on every ordinary launch.
2. When the removal succeeds, the title writes a picture of its next frame (JPEG,
PNG or JXR) as a **new file** in a folder of its own that holds nothing else
that changes.
3. The payload sends the newest picture in that folder and deletes it.
`/app0` is the title's folder, `/data/homebrew/<TITLE_ID>` from outside. Create
folders 0777 and files 0666, so the payload and FTP can remove them.
Use the engine's own screenshot where it has one. PS5_Quake3e's whole hook
(`ps5/q3/ps5_input.c`), called once a frame:
```c
#define IN_SHOT_REQUEST "/app0/devloop-shot"
static void IN_ShotRequest( void )
{
static int calls;
if ( ++calls % 4 == 0 && unlink( IN_SHOT_REQUEST ) == 0 )
Cbuf_AddText( "screenshotJPEG silent\n" );
}
```
A title with no screenshot of its own reads the frame back in its renderer (the
swapchain image copied to a host-visible buffer, as PS5_VulkanTemplate's
`screenshot` test line does) and writes it with whatever encoder it links.
Then add the title to `titles.json`:
```json
"mytitle": {
"title_id": "PPSA00000",
"request": "/data/homebrew/PPSA00000/devloop-shot",
"folder": "/data/homebrew/PPSA00000/screenshots"
}
```
and prove it: launch the title, `tools/ps5loop.py grab --title mytitle`, look at
the picture, and check the folder is empty afterwards.
## Rules
- **One console job at a time**, and never over a title someone is playing: ask
the launcher payload first, or look.
- **Do not press Create for less than 1.2 s.** A short press opens the Create
menu, and no screenshot works until Circle closes it.
- **`open` takes the controller away from the person.** A title reads only its
user's first controller, so the real one is disconnected. Say so when you
finish; `open --beside` keeps it, for the home screen only.
- **Leave the console as you found it**: quit the title through its own menu,
`close` the pad. `shot` and `grab` clean up after themselves; `forget PATH`
deletes a capture properly (file, thumbnail and database row) if one is left.
- **Never edit `/system_data/priv/mms/av_content.db`** or delete files under
`/user/av_contents` by hand: the gallery's database and its files go out of
step. `forget` asks the system to do it.
- Never print the console's address: it lives in `PS5_HOST` or the ignored `.env`.
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# PS5 DevLoop
**Let an AI agent, or a script, drive a jailbroken PS5 by itself: press buttons,
see the screen, repeat.**
Porting homebrew to the PS5 has had a gap in the middle of every loop. A machine
can build a title, deploy it, launch it and read its log, but it cannot press
Cross on the menu, and it cannot see that the screen is black. So a person sits
with a controller, and every long task stops to wait for them.
DevLoop closes that gap. It is one small payload that stays resident on the
console, and one Python client:
- **Input**: a system-wide virtual DualSense. The home screen and every title
see a real controller.
- **Sight**: the running title's own frame in about a second, or a screenshot of
the whole screen, system UI included, in about three. Both arrive as a small
PNG an agent can read, and neither leaves anything on the console.
With those two, an agent can launch a port, walk its menus, notice what is
wrong, change the code, and try again, with nobody at the pad.
```bash
tools/ps5loop.py load # once per console boot
tools/ps5loop.py open # connect the virtual controller
tools/ps5loop.py seq l1 wait:1000 cross wait:14000 # Games tab, launch
tools/ps5loop.py grab # the title's frame -> captures/shot-<time>.png
tools/ps5loop.py seq down down cross:300 wait:1000
tools/ps5loop.py shot # the whole screen, for the home screen and dialogs
tools/ps5loop.py close
```
That sequence, on a real console: switch to the Games tab, launch a Quake III
port, go through its menus, quit through "Exit game?", and land back on the
home screen, every step checked from a picture.
> For homebrew development on a console you own. It is tested on **firmware
> 13.60 only**; the calls it relies on are undocumented and may differ elsewhere.
> `payload/main.c` reports what every step returned so that another firmware can
> be brought up.
## For agents
`AGENTS.md` is the operating guide: the loop, which picture to take when, the
rules that keep the console safe, and how to give a new title the `grab` hook
(a few lines). `CLAUDE.md` includes it, so Claude Code reads it on entering the
folder. Point any other agent at it first.
## What you need
- A jailbroken PS5 on your network, with an **ELF loader** (port 9021) and a
**klog server** (port 3232) running, as the usual payload chains provide.
- Python 3 on the host, and for pictures `JxrDecApp` (jxrlib) and `magick`
(ImageMagick): `brew install jxrlib imagemagick`, or your distribution's
packages.
- To build: the [PS5 payload SDK](https://github.com/ps5-payload-dev/sdk).
`tools/build.sh` finds it through `PS5_PAYLOAD_SDK`.
- The console's address in `PS5_HOST`, or in `.env` (copy `.env.example`).
DevLoop presses buttons and looks. Launching and closing titles from a script,
and reading klog, are jobs for the tools you already have; mine are
[PS5_Vulkan](https://github.com/mihawk-99/PS5_Vulkan)'s `ps5vkctl` and run
tools. The pad can launch anything from the home screen without them.
## Commands
| Command | What it does |
| --- | --- |
| `load [ELF]` | send the payload to the console's ELF loader |
| `open` | create the virtual pad on the foreground user and make it the one titles read |
| `press BUTTONS [--ms N]` | press and release: `cross`, `l1+r1` |
| `hold BUTTONS [--lx N ...]` | hold buttons, sticks (0-255) and triggers until the next `hold` or `release` |
| `seq STEPS...` | presses and waits in order: `down cross:300 wait:1000` |
| `grab [FILE]` | the running title's frame (`--title`, from `titles.json`) |
| `shot [FILE]` | the whole screen, through the console's screenshot |
| `close` | remove the pad |
`tools/ps5loop.py --help` lists the rest; `payload/main.c` documents the wire
protocol (one text command per connection, port 9112).
## How it works
- **Input** is the system's virtual pad device (`scePadVirtualDevice*`, what
Remote Play uses). The payload holds a state and inserts it every 8 ms;
presses are timed on the console, not across the network.
- **A title's frame** (`grab`) comes from the title. The payload creates a
request file in the title's folder; the title removes it and writes a picture
of its next frame; the payload sends that and deletes it. About 1 s end to end
at 3840x2160. A title needs a hook of a few lines (`AGENTS.md`, "Giving a
title grab"), and an entry in `titles.json`.
- **The whole screen** (`shot`) is the console's own screenshot: the payload
holds the virtual Create button for 1.2 s, waits for the new file under
`/user/av_contents/photo`, sends it, and deletes it through
`sceContentDeleteByPath` (libSceContentDelete), as the gallery's own Delete
does: the file, its thumbnail and its row in the media database all go. The
client decodes it (JPEG XR when HDR is on) and scales it to 1280 wide.
## What the console showed (firmware 13.60)
- `AddDevice` for the real user answers `0x803b0001` and creates nothing. For
user 1 it answers `0x803b0006` and the device appears in klog
(`DEVICE_ADDED ... subType:22`); its id is the handle `InsertData` takes.
- `sceMbusBindDeviceWithUserId`, called in the payload's own process, binds it
(returns 0, `DEVICE_OWNER_CHANGED` follows). No injection into the shell is
needed.
- The console still raises "Who's using this controller?". Circle from the
virtual pad closes it; `open` does that 1.5 s after opening.
- A title opens its user's first controller (`scePadOpen(user, 0, 0)`). With a
real DualSense connected the virtual pad is the second and the title never
reads it. `sceMbusDisconnectDevice` on the real one leaves the virtual pad
first, and a title already running picks it up at once. `open` finds the real
pad in klog's `[CIM]` table and disconnects it; PS on the real pad reconnects
it.
- Confirmed by picture, on the home screen and in a title's menus: Cross,
Circle, the d-pad, L1, Create. Not yet exercised: sticks, triggers, PS,
Options, the touchpad.
- `sceScreenShotCapture` (libSceScreenShot), called from the payload, answers
"busy" until it is cancelled, with either type: no way round the Create hold
was found.
## Limits
- Pictures are stills, not video. Nothing known reads the composited display
from a payload.
- `shot` takes about 3 s: Create held for less than 1.2 s opens the Create menu
instead.
- While the pad drives a title, the real controller is disconnected
(`open --beside` keeps it, for the home screen only).
- The pad's device id is read from the klog server while it opens: another klog
client connecting at that moment can make `open` miss it.
- The payload listens on the local network with no authentication. Run it on a
network you trust.
## Credits
The virtual pad's call sequence and its 120-byte sample follow what
[SplashDown](https://github.com/seregonwar/SplashDown),
[Control4Free](https://github.com/MoHadiShibli/Control4Free),
[OmniPad-PS5](https://github.com/diegobarbosaa/OmniPad-PS5) and
[Ghostpad](https://github.com/srbraboo/Ghostpad) established on hardware. The
payload's command server follows `ps5vkctl` from
[PS5_Vulkan](https://github.com/mihawk-99/PS5_Vulkan) by Mihawk. Built with the
[PS5 payload SDK](https://github.com/ps5-payload-dev/sdk).
Not affiliated with Sony Interactive Entertainment.
## License
GPL-3.0-or-later. See `LICENSE`.
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# PS5 DevLoop - resident input and screen-capture payload build.
# Copyright (C) 2026 Gary Riches
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
#
# Builds build/ps5loop.elf. Run tools/build.sh, which resolves PS5_PAYLOAD_SDK.
ifndef PS5_PAYLOAD_SDK
$(error PS5_PAYLOAD_SDK is undefined; run tools/build.sh)
endif
include $(PS5_PAYLOAD_SDK)/toolchain/prospero.mk
ROOT := $(abspath $(CURDIR)/..)
OUTPUT := $(ROOT)/build
ELF := $(OUTPUT)/ps5loop.elf
CFLAGS := -std=c11 -O2 -g -Wall -Wextra -Werror
LDLIBS := -lScePad -lSceUserService -lpthread
all: $(ELF)
$(ELF): main.c | $(OUTPUT)
$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -o $@ main.c $(LDLIBS)
$(OUTPUT):
mkdir -p $(OUTPUT)
clean:
rm -f $(ELF)
.PHONY: all clean
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{
"quake": {
"title_id": "PPSA99303",
"request": "/data/homebrew/PPSA99303/devloop-shot",
"folder": "/data/homebrew/PPSA99303/baseq3/screenshots"
}
}
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#!/usr/bin/env bash
# PS5 DevLoop - build the resident payload, from macOS or inside the VM.
# Copyright (C) 2026 Gary Riches
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
#
# tools/build.sh [make arguments] -> build/ps5loop.elf
#
# The payload SDK (ps5-payload-dev/sdk) is found through PS5_PAYLOAD_SDK, or in
# ~/ps5-payload-sdk, /usr/local/ps5-payload-sdk or /opt/ps5-payload-sdk. On
# macOS with no SDK set, the build runs in a Lima VM that has one and mounts
# this folder at the same path: PS5LOOP_VM names it (default "ps5").
set -euo pipefail
root="$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")/.." && pwd)"
if [[ $(uname) == Darwin && -z ${PS5_PAYLOAD_SDK:-} ]] && command -v limactl >/dev/null; then
exec limactl shell "${PS5LOOP_VM:-ps5}" -- bash -lc 'cd "$1"; shift; exec bash tools/build.sh "$@"' _ "$root" "$@"
fi
sdk="${PS5_PAYLOAD_SDK:-}"
if [[ -z $sdk ]]; then
for candidate in "$HOME/ps5-payload-sdk" /usr/local/ps5-payload-sdk /opt/ps5-payload-sdk; do
if [[ -x "$candidate/bin/prospero-clang" ]]; then
sdk="$candidate"
break
fi
done
fi
if [[ -z $sdk || ! -x "$sdk/bin/prospero-clang" ]]; then
echo "build: no PS5 payload SDK; set PS5_PAYLOAD_SDK to one" >&2
exit 1
fi
export PS5_PAYLOAD_SDK="$sdk"
make -C "$root/payload" "$@"
echo "==> $root/build/ps5loop.elf"
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#!/usr/bin/env python3
# PS5 DevLoop - the client of the resident input and screen-capture payload.
# Copyright (C) 2026 Gary Riches
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
"""Press buttons on the console and see what its screen shows.
Commands:
load [ELF] send the payload to the console's ELF loader (once a boot)
ping is the payload there
raw WORDS... send one command line as it is, print the answer
open [USERID] create the virtual pad, give it to the foreground user, close
the prompt the console raises, and disconnect any real
controller so that titles read the pad
close remove it
status the pad's handle, device, user and last insert result
press BUTTONS [--ms] press and release: "cross", "l1+r1", "down"
hold BUTTONS [--lx ..] hold buttons, sticks (0-255, 128 centre) and triggers
release let everything go
seq STEPS... steps in order: a button press ("down", "cross:300" for
300 ms), or "wait:500"
shot [FILE] the whole screen, system UI included, through the console's
own screenshot: about 3 s. For the home screen and dialogs
grab [FILE] ask the running title for its frame (--title, from
titles.json): about 1 s. Use it whenever a title runs
latest [FILE] fetch the newest capture without pressing anything
shots list the console's newest captures
The console's address comes from PS5_HOST in the environment, then from .env in
this project (.env.example). It is never printed.
"""
import argparse
import json
import os
import socket
import subprocess
import sys
import time
from pathlib import Path
ROOT = Path(__file__).resolve().parent.parent
PORT = int(os.environ.get("PS5LOOP_PORT", "9112"))
KLOG_PORT = int(os.environ.get("KLOG_PORT", "3232"))
LOADER_PORT = int(os.environ.get("PS5_LOADER_PORT", "9021"))
# What a picture is scaled down to, so that it can be looked at cheaply.
VIEW_WIDTH = 1280
# Titles that answer a request file with a picture of their frame (AGENTS.md,
# "Giving a title grab"): the file the title looks for, and the folder it writes
# the picture into.
TITLES = json.loads((ROOT / "titles.json").read_text(encoding="utf-8"))
NO_HOOK = ("the title did not answer: is it running, and does it have the grab hook? "
"(AGENTS.md, \"Giving a title grab\"); shot takes the whole screen meanwhile")
BUTTONS = {
"create": 0x1, "l3": 0x2, "r3": 0x4, "options": 0x8,
"up": 0x10, "right": 0x20, "down": 0x40, "left": 0x80,
"l2": 0x100, "r2": 0x200, "l1": 0x400, "r1": 0x800,
"triangle": 0x1000, "circle": 0x2000, "cross": 0x4000, "square": 0x8000,
"ps": 0x10000, "touchpad": 0x100000,
}
def env_file_host(text):
for raw in text.splitlines():
key, _, value = raw.strip().partition("=")
if key.strip() == "PS5_HOST" and value.strip():
return value.strip()
return None
def console_host():
host = os.environ.get("PS5_HOST")
if host:
return host
local = ROOT / ".env"
if local.is_file():
host = env_file_host(local.read_text(encoding="utf-8"))
if host:
return host
raise SystemExit("PS5_HOST is not set: export it, or copy .env.example to .env")
def command(line, timeout=30.0, payload=False):
"""Send one command. Returns the answer line, and the bytes after it for a file."""
try:
connection = socket.create_connection((console_host(), PORT), timeout=10)
except OSError as error:
raise SystemExit(f"ps5loop: the payload did not answer ({error.strerror or error}); "
"run: ps5loop.py load") from None
with connection:
connection.settimeout(timeout)
connection.sendall(line.encode() + b"\n")
data = b""
while b"\n" not in data:
chunk = connection.recv(65536)
if not chunk:
break
data += chunk
answer, _, rest = data.partition(b"\n")
answer = answer.decode("utf-8", "replace")
if not payload or not answer.startswith("ok file"):
return answer, b""
size = int(dict(word.split("=", 1) for word in answer.split() if "=" in word)["size"])
while len(rest) < size:
chunk = connection.recv(1 << 20)
if not chunk:
raise SystemExit(f"ps5loop: the file ended at {len(rest)} of {size} bytes")
rest += chunk
return answer, rest[:size]
def klog_listen():
"""A connection to the console's klog, or None. Opened before the pad, so
that what the console logs as the pad arrives is not missed."""
try:
return socket.create_connection((console_host(), KLOG_PORT), timeout=5)
except OSError:
return None
def other_pads(connection, device, seconds=2.5):
"""The other controllers the console lists, from the table its klog prints
when a controller changes owner: "[CIM] [0] 0x<device> 0x<user> ..."."""
found = set()
if connection is None:
return None
with connection:
connection.settimeout(0.5)
data = b""
deadline = time.monotonic() + seconds
while time.monotonic() < deadline:
try:
chunk = connection.recv(65536)
except socket.timeout:
continue
if not chunk:
break
data += chunk
# The last table is the current one.
table = data.decode("utf-8", "replace").rsplit("[CIM] Pad", 1)
if len(table) < 2:
return None
for line in table[1].splitlines():
words = line.split()
if len(words) >= 4 and words[0].endswith("[CIM]") and words[2].startswith("0x"):
pad = int(words[2], 16)
if pad not in (device, 0xffffffffffffffff):
found.add(pad)
return found
def open_pad(args):
"""Create the pad, close the console's prompt, and make the pad its user's first."""
klog = None if args.beside else klog_listen()
answer, _ = command(f"pad open {args.user}".strip())
if not answer.startswith("ok") or "already open" in answer:
return say(answer)
print(answer)
device = int(answer.split("device=")[1].split()[0], 16)
if not args.keep_prompt:
# The console asks who the new controller belongs to although it is bound
# already; Circle, from the pad itself, closes the question.
time.sleep(1.5)
command(f"pad tap {BUTTONS['circle']:x} 80")
if args.beside:
return 0
# A title reads its user's first controller, so a real one that is connected
# has to go: PS on it brings it back.
pads = other_pads(klog, device)
if pads is None:
print("klog did not list the controllers: if a real one is connected, titles "
"read it and not this pad (pad evict DEVICE)")
return 0
for pad in sorted(pads):
print(command(f"pad evict {pad:x}")[0])
if not pads:
print("ok no other controller is connected")
return 0
def say(answer):
print(answer)
return 0 if answer.startswith("ok") else 1
def mask(names):
value = 0
for name in names.lower().replace(",", "+").split("+"):
if name not in BUTTONS:
raise SystemExit(f"unknown button {name!r}: {', '.join(BUTTONS)}")
value |= BUTTONS[name]
return value
def load(args):
elf = Path(args.elf) if args.elf else ROOT / "build/ps5loop.elf"
if not elf.is_file():
raise SystemExit(f"missing payload: {elf} (run tools/build.sh)")
with socket.create_connection((console_host(), LOADER_PORT), timeout=10) as connection:
connection.sendall(elf.read_bytes())
print(f"sent {elf.name} ({elf.stat().st_size} bytes) to the loader")
if elf.name != "ps5loop.elf":
return 0
for _ in range(20):
time.sleep(0.5)
try:
return say(command("ping", timeout=5)[0])
except SystemExit:
continue
raise SystemExit("ps5loop: loaded, but the payload does not answer; read klog")
def to_png(data, target):
"""Write a capture as a PNG to look at, whatever the console saved it as."""
target = Path(target)
target.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
if data[:3] == b"II\xbc":
# JPEG XR, what the console writes with HDR on.
raw = target.with_suffix(".jxr")
raw.write_bytes(data)
tiff = target.with_suffix(".tif")
# Asked for 24-bit RGB first: left to itself the decoder writes the home
# screen's 10-bit pictures as a packed TIFF that nothing reads back
# correctly. A title's 8-bit pictures refuse that conversion and decode
# as they are.
for conversion in (["-c", "9"], []):
tiff.unlink(missing_ok=True)
decoded = subprocess.run(["JxrDecApp", "-i", str(raw), "-o", str(tiff), *conversion],
capture_output=True, text=True, check=False)
if decoded.returncode == 0 and tiff.is_file():
break
if decoded.returncode != 0 or not tiff.is_file():
print(f"kept {raw}: JxrDecApp could not decode it ({decoded.stdout.strip()[-200:]})")
return raw
source = tiff
else:
source = target.with_suffix(".png" if data[:4] == b"\x89PNG" else ".jpg")
if source == target:
source = target.with_suffix(".full.png")
source.write_bytes(data)
# Only the console's HDR pictures need their levels stretched to be readable.
levels = ["-auto-level"] if source.suffix == ".tif" else []
scaled = subprocess.run(["magick", str(source), *levels, "-resize", f"{VIEW_WIDTH}x>",
"-depth", "8", str(target)],
capture_output=True, text=True, check=False)
if scaled.returncode != 0:
print(f"kept {source}: magick could not convert it ({scaled.stderr.strip()[-200:]})")
return source
if source.suffix == ".tif":
source.unlink()
return target
def fetch(line, args):
answer, data = command(line, timeout=60, payload=True)
if not answer.startswith("ok file"):
return say(answer)
name = args.file or ROOT / "captures" / time.strftime("shot-%Y%m%d-%H%M%S.png")
print(f"{answer.split(' path=')[0]} -> {to_png(data, name)}")
return 0
def sequence(args):
for step in args.steps:
name, _, value = step.partition(":")
if name == "wait":
time.sleep(int(value or 500) / 1000)
continue
answer, _ = command(f"pad tap {mask(name):x} {int(value or args.ms)}")
if not answer.startswith("ok"):
return say(answer)
time.sleep(args.gap / 1000)
print(f"ok {len(args.steps)} steps")
return 0
def main():
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description=__doc__,
formatter_class=argparse.RawDescriptionHelpFormatter)
commands = parser.add_subparsers(dest="command", required=True)
commands.add_parser("load").add_argument("elf", nargs="?")
commands.add_parser("ping")
commands.add_parser("raw").add_argument("words", nargs="+")
opening = commands.add_parser("open")
opening.add_argument("user", nargs="?", default="")
opening.add_argument("--keep-prompt", action="store_true",
help="leave the console's \"Who's using this controller?\" prompt up")
opening.add_argument("--beside", action="store_true",
help="leave a real controller connected (titles then read it, not the pad)")
commands.add_parser("close")
commands.add_parser("status")
press = commands.add_parser("press")
press.add_argument("buttons")
press.add_argument("--ms", type=int, default=80)
hold = commands.add_parser("hold")
hold.add_argument("buttons", nargs="?", default="")
for axis, default in (("lx", 128), ("ly", 128), ("rx", 128), ("ry", 128), ("l2", 0), ("r2", 0)):
hold.add_argument(f"--{axis}", type=int, default=default)
commands.add_parser("release")
steps = commands.add_parser("seq")
steps.add_argument("steps", nargs="+")
steps.add_argument("--ms", type=int, default=80, help="how long each press is held")
steps.add_argument("--gap", type=int, default=250, help="the pause after each press")
shot = commands.add_parser("shot")
shot.add_argument("file", nargs="?")
shot.add_argument("--hold", type=int, default=0, help="how long Create is held, in ms")
grabbing = commands.add_parser("grab")
grabbing.add_argument("file", nargs="?")
grabbing.add_argument("--title", default=next(iter(TITLES)), choices=sorted(TITLES),
help="a title from titles.json")
commands.add_parser("latest").add_argument("file", nargs="?")
commands.add_parser("shots")
args = parser.parse_args()
if args.command == "load":
return load(args)
if args.command == "open":
return open_pad(args)
if args.command == "seq":
return sequence(args)
if args.command == "shot":
return fetch(f"shot {args.hold}" if args.hold else "shot", args)
if args.command == "grab":
title = TITLES[args.title]
status = fetch(f"grab {title['request']} {title['folder']}", args)
if status != 0:
print(NO_HOOK)
return status
if args.command == "latest":
return fetch("latest", args)
if args.command == "press":
return say(command(f"pad tap {mask(args.buttons):x} {args.ms}")[0])
if args.command == "hold":
buttons = mask(args.buttons) if args.buttons else 0
return say(command(f"pad set {buttons:x} {args.lx} {args.ly} {args.rx} {args.ry} "
f"{args.l2} {args.r2}")[0])
if args.command == "release":
return say(command("pad set 0 128 128 128 128 0 0")[0])
line = {"ping": "ping", "shots": "shots", "status": "pad status", "close": "pad close",
"raw": " ".join(getattr(args, "words", []))}[args.command]
return say(command(line)[0])
if __name__ == "__main__":
sys.exit(main())