Playstation Controllers

Controller compatibility combinations

Controller	Connection	Operating system	Standard input	Rumble	Extra inputs	Gyro	Touchpad	HD haptics	Adaptive triggers
Sony DualSense	USB	Windows	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Sony DualSense	Bluetooth	Windows	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌	✅
Sony DualSense	USB	Linux	✅	✅	✅	✅	🛠️	✅	✅
Sony DualSense	Bluetooth	Linux	✅	✅	✅	✅	🛠️	❌	✅
Sony DualSense	USB	macOS	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌	✅
Sony DualSense	Bluetooth	macOS	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	❌	✅

Fixing touchpad on Linux

On modern Linux systems, there exists a driver, hid-playstation, that detects the touchpad as a system touchpad. If you want to make use of the touchpad in Controlify (currently only using the touchpad as a button), then you will need to create a udev rule to prevent Linux from recognizing the touchpad.

Create the following udev rule:

sudo nano /etc/udev/rules.d/99-controlify-playstation-touchpad.rules

It may ask for your password, then add:

ACTION!="remove", KERNEL=="event[0-9]*", \
    ENV{ID_VENDOR_ID}=="054c", \
    ENV{ID_INPUT_TOUCHPAD}=="1", \
    ENV{LIBINPUT_IGNORE_DEVICE}="1"

Save the file (Ctrl+O, then Enter), then reload the rules:

sudo udevadm control --reload-rules
sudo udevadm trigger

Disconnect and reconnect your controller after running the commands.

This prevents any USB/Bluetooth device identifying itself as made by Sony (vendor ID 0x54c) from being recognized as a touchpad.

If you want to reverse these changes, delete the file and re-run the commands.