SC Controller

User-mode driver, mapper and GTK3 based GUI for Steam Controller, DS4 and similar controllers.

Features

• Allows to setup, configure and use Steam Controller(s) without ever launching Steam
• Supports profiles switchable in GUI or with controller button
• Stick, Pads and Gyroscope input
• Haptic Feedback and in-game Rumble support
• OSD, Menus, On-Screen Keyboard for desktop and in games.
• Automatic profile switching based on active window.
• Macros, button cycling, rapid fire, modeshift, mouse regions...
• Emulates Xbox360 controller, mouse, trackball and keyboard.

Based on Standalone Steam Controller Driver by Ynsta.

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You can check out the ways to donate on my website, or just go straight to my Ko-Fi.

Donation links for kozec, who is the original developer, can be found on the old upstream repository.

Packages

Linux:

• Arch Linux: Found in AUR/sc-controller and AUR/sc-controller-git
• Ubuntu (22.04-jammy, 24.04-noble): Packaged as AppImage in GitHub releases, which may also run fine on other operating systems - jammy image is currently the most compatible one
• Gentoo: Packaged as game-util/sc-controller
• Void Linux: Packaged as sc-controller - Run xbps-install -S sc-controller in a terminal, points to archived Ryochan7's fork at the time of writing
• Others: You can attempt to use one of the AppImages (try all, AppImages built on older distributions tend to work better), or a package meant for your parent distribution if applicable. Flatpak is planned.

Windows:

• It should be possible to get it running as per the upstream wiki, but this is untested and might be broken, report a bug if so

Building the package by yourself

Dependencies

• Python 3.8+
• GTK 3.24+
• PyGObject
• python-gi-cairo and gir1.2-rsvg-2.0 on Debian-based distributions (included in PyGObject elsewhere)
• setuptools
• python-evdev
• python-pylibacl
• python-vdf
• python-libusb1
• python-ioctl-opt
• gtk-layer-shell

Installing

• Download and extract latest release
• python3 setup.py build
• python3 setup.py install

Docker

A test build with Docker can be created using the following way:

docker build -o build-output --build-arg BASE_CODENAME=noble .

Running with non distro-specific package

• Download and extract latest release
• Navigate to extracted directory: cd sc-controller
• If you do not wish to use system dependencies, you can setup a venv and install them there:
  • Create the venv: python -m venv venv
  • Activate it, you will need to do this before each launch: source venv/bin/activate
  • Install dependencies: pip install -r requirements.txt
• Execute ./run.sh
• If you are debuggin an issue, running ./run.sh daemon first will launch the daemon in debug mode, allowing you to launch sc-controller in another terminal with ./run.sh