Keyboard Keys / Commands that Work on PS4
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stormyuk
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I think Keyboard is presenting too much of an issue and you want voice commands?
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Yea I do, and I want a female voice, my wife doesn't nag me anymore and I kind of miss it. Besides that, one should keep both hands on the controls at all times. LOL
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Give us keyboard controls, and I can build foot pedals for ya. Heck, I could connect Alexa to the PS4 and give you your voice controls! That's the beauty of the keyboard, it uses the open HID protocol, which in turns opens the door for endless possibilities
"Alexa, deploy chaff!"
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Give us keyboard controls, and I can build foot pedals for ya. Heck, I could connect Alexa to the PS4 and give you your voice controls! That's the beauty of the keyboard, it uses the open HID protocol, which in turns opens the door for endless possibilities
"Alexa, deploy chaff!"
If what your saying by adding a keyboard one can gain access to the ps4 internal stuff, perhaps that's why, they don't want one to utilize it. I'm not a tech, but I know one can mess up a computer if they DON'T KNOW what they are doing, which most of us don't. I know there are files that cannot be messed with, and to do so may brick it. Sony's support doesn't need the additional hassel, reckon?
stormyuk
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Don't reckon, other games support keyboard on PS4.
Considering he's a multi-millionaire...
That shouldn't be an issue, though I'm not a multi millionaire, I'm close. He started this whole thing with a pc and thus like most pc gamer's, I'd reckon he's a bit biased. If my grandkids would have bought me a gaming pc rather than a ps4, I'd be a pc gammer rather than a console player. Though the learning curve may have been longer to use a pc vs a console. I wouldn't have noticed any difference as I would now if I switched. Though I could well afford it, having to do all that grinding to get to where I am now. Well, that ain't gonna happen; Even if it is a bit faster.
Hence I'd rather get voice control vs keyboard. I need two hands to operate the hotas, at too old to undergo surgery for and extra two operationable arms with a hands and fingers, one for keyboard one for a mouse. Though it would come in handy when the wife requires I help with the dishes.
No, no, I'm not saying that. What I'm saying is that a clever person could wire some actual switches and buttons to a microcontroller that sends appropriate key presses as if the user pressed those keys on the keyboard. So for example, one could have a button for cargo scoop which sends the appropriate keypress for that. I'd love to have foot pedals for left and right thrusters so I don't need to toggle between that and yaw all the time. That's just a simple mechanical device tied to a on/off switch that the microcontroller can change to an appropriate keypress.
None of what I'm suggesting gives any special access to the console (I'm not hacking the console itself). I'm just mimicking a keyboard. YOU could do this by taking a cheap USB keyboard and soldering wires to the key buttons and running those wires to switches and pedals. It would be ugly, but functional!
Just as a heads up to everyone; the frame rate and network information being available is a bug and they should not have appeared. This is being fixed. I will run the rest of the discussion past the team as some good points have been raised. The usual caveat of not being able to promise anything off the back of this applies, however.
Kind of like a Red Green situatation then, it may not be handsome, but at least it's useful.
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Sounds like a request to support dancemats (I only remember seeing them in the PS2 era)
If that point is discussed, please look at keyboards which have some analogue controls like Nyko Type Pad. That would be a killer for mapping lateral controls or headlook.
