ESP32-BLE-Keyboard VS ESP32-BLE-Gamepad

I am trying to get started with the bluetooth keyboard example for ESP32. using the example, it throws the error: "Compilation error: 'BleKeyboard' does not name a type" I have tried to compile this in Arduino 1.8 and 2.2.1 and on multiple computers. all fail to compile. I even tried to downgrade the ESP32 package to 2.x to no avail. What am i missing here?

For example: https://github.com/T-vK/ESP32-BLE-Keyboard

I like using the ESP32C3. If you don't need a lot of pinouts, the Seeed Studio XIAO ESP32C3 ($9) is awesome for emulating a Bluetooth Keyboard using the https://github.com/T-vK/ESP32-BLE-Keyboard library. Thanks to the Community members who made me aware of the BLE library.

this library is great

It'll be much easier and cheaper if you used a ESP32. Example https://github.com/T-vK/ESP32-BLE-Keyboard

From the library's BleKeyboard.h file, I think the main problem I have is that some keys are just "KEY_" which are type uint8_t.

If you're trying to build a totally custom thing, it looks like there's a library to use the ESP32 as a bluetooth keyboard. https://github.com/T-vK/ESP32-BLE-Keyboard

ESP32 with this BLE keyboard library is an option.

Keyboard Library: https://github.com/T-vK/ESP32-BLE-Keyboard/releases/tag/0.3.0

With this library it's pretty simple - have you tried it ? https://github.com/T-vK/ESP32-BLE-Keyboard

Trying to find premade code to make an xbox style controller for Steam. I have looked into it before but what I found isn't exactly clear. https://github.com/lemmingDev/ESP32-BLE-Gamepad This was the code I found but I don't understand what they define as a "hat" and how you're supposed to get 128 buttons.

Conveniently, I had a spare ESP32 board sitting in a drawer (which is not an Arduino and technically makes the title of this post innacurate, I know), and a quick Google search showed that some legendary human being had already done the hard work of writting an Arduino library to create Bluetooth wireless gamepads on ESP32. The stage was set!

Absolutely! It's quite a bit more complicated, but someone else has already put their code on GitHub for one: https://github.com/lemmingDev/ESP32-BLE-Gamepad

I simply want the controller to be able to function as a single full-fledged controller (with all the buttons of a regular controller) but also have the functionality of being split into two smaller/simpler controllers. For a smaller handheld, I was able to create a simple bluetooth controller using an ESP32-WROOM-32 and the ESP32-BLE-Gamepad library by lemmingDev.

Googling ESP32 Bluetooth game pad shows that there are libraries so I assume it's possible.

I used the ESP32-BLE-Gamepad library and changed up the flight controller example code slightly. I’d appreciate any advice, thanks!

Yes, with an ESP32 and the Bluetooth LE Gamepad library.

This is the library I used.

Have you looked at this one? https://github.com/lemmingDev/ESP32-BLE-Gamepad