ScpToolkit VS LgTvControl

Installer can be found on github. Here's the link to the page: https://github.com/nefarius/ScpToolkit/releases . Scroll down the latest stable build and download/install the exe.

for me best "controller for PC" is DualShock 4 with SCPToolkit https://github.com/nefarius/ScpToolkit (or DS4Windows but i use SCP)

You can use SCP Toolkit to use your PS3 Controller on the PC.

i searched up "how to get ps3 controller working on windows 10" on google clicked the first thing that popped up "lifewire" How to Connect a PS3 Controller to a PC (lifewire.com) and downloaded this from Release ScpToolkit v1.6.238.16010 · nefarius/ScpToolkit · GitHub

I remember DS2 and DS3 controllers having pressure sensitive buttons, meaning that pressing X to accelerate would make the car go faster the harder you press on X and slower the lighter you press X. I have been trying to setup my DS3 for at least 2 hours now trying to get the pressure sensitivity to work using GInput. I tried to get ScpToolkit to work, but the program wont even open to let me install the drivers. I then found DsHidMini, which works flawlessy with GInput, I was able to install the drivers and get my DS3 working in-game without any problems... except there's no pressure sensitivity. I tried putting DsHidMini's XInput1_3.dll into the games directory thinking that would work, but it didn't change anything.

I searched online everywhere and I couldn't get a definite answer. I searched up "Is ScpToolkit safe?" and the first thing that popped up was that SCPToolkit contains malware from both a Steam page and an article. But at the same time, I found on Reddit, from u/forlecam, 3 years ago, that asked the same question. The answers (2/4) were basically saying that it is safe as long as you download it from the original GitHub page. Although, one of the comments that intrigued me said to check on Totalvirus (VirusTotal). So, I went to GitHub and noticed a warning talking about suspicious substitutes, so I thought that was the problem. I downloaded it, went to VirusTotal, and got two malware warnings. I quickly deleted it, searched around some more, and found people talking as if they have used it forever and saying that it is fine. I keep on getting mixed information and Shibari does not work. I have also just recently found more mixed information.

At least on my LG TV, basic non-"smart" controls are available directly via both RS-232[1] and IR remote without recourse to menus.

The IR remote, in particular, might be a solution for your in-laws' TV, as LG-compatible IR remotes are "plug-and-play" and available for less than $10 (avoid "service" remotes for this application, as they include a button that makes it easy to accidentally factory reset the TV, which, while ultimately harmless, is annoying).

RS-232 is particularly nice for tinkering with one's own TV, as it allows you to disable the OSD entirely, completely neutering all smart TV functions and pop-ups until the TV is turned off (or OSD is re-enabled via RS-232), and also includes video and audio controls not available on any of the IR remotes I've seen (brightness, contrast, bass, treble, etc.).

Along with a 4-port IR-controllable USB switch[2] and an audio interface with a TOSLINK input[3], I use the RS-232 functionality as a basis for my desktop "KVM", with inputs, brightness, power, and volume controlled with an Apple Siri remote paired to a Mac.

The only times I touch the menus are rare cases where I actually want to use the built-in smart TV apps (viz., for 4K video from services that don't support it on Mac or PC).

[1] https://github.com/jasminetroll/LgTvControl/blob/master/Docu...

[2] https://www.amazon.com/Cable-Matters-Sharing-Computers-Perip...

[3] https://babyface.rme-audio.de

Which is awesome and highly recommended, but for the present application any USB audio interface with low-latency monitoring and TOSLINK should work as well.

And if you don't care about mixing the currently active HDMI audio source with other audio like I do, the volume on the TV's built-in speakers and non-digital audio outputs is controllable via RS-232.

Furthermore, if you're connecting devices like PC GPUs that don't support CEC, most LG TVs have an RS-232 interface that supports all the basic "dumb TV" commands, including most of what you'd want to do with CEC or IR remote (power on/off, input select, volume, brightness, and other basic audio and video settings).

RS-232 control also has a command to disable OSD, which has the pleasant side effect of disabling annoying smart TV bits like pop-up notifications even when the TV is connected to the Internet (and also superfluous [to me] non-smart TV pop-ups that ordinarily appear when switching inputs and adjusting visually apparent settings like brightness).

Disabling the OSD also disables the bundled Magic Remote, though IR remotes still work (unless locked out with another command) and OSD can be re-enabled via RS-232, or by simply power-cycling the TV.

As a bonus, input switching via IR remote (or RS-232) is noticeably faster than switching via Magic Remote, even if you set up hotkeys, as full-featured LG IR remotes have hard buttons for each input that don't require press-and-hold to activate (this includes sub-$10 service remote knock-offs on Amazon, which work perfectly fine IME, though you may want to steer away from these in a casual setting as some of the service buttons can cause undesirable behavior).

For my own use, I wrote a trivial ASP.NET Web API wrapper around the LG RS-232,

https://github.com/jasminetroll/LgTvControl

While only tested on macOS controlling the TV I own (55SK9000), the documentation it's written against isn't model-specific and I'm not using any platform-specific .NET APIs, so it should work across many TV models and on any platform that supports RS-232 and .NET (.NET 6.0+ as currently configured, though it was mostly developed on .NET Core 3.1, so changing TargetFramework in the csproj file should suffice to get it running on older versions).

You can still buy the (current model) Apple remote separately from Apple TV; current Mac OS versions still have built in support for the basic media control buttons (pause/play, volume control, maybe a few others). And you can use tools like BetterTouchTool to customize it.

I use mine (previous-gen Siri remote) to control volume, display brightness, display power on/off, and to switch between display inputs, the first using OSC to the RME mixer app and the rest via a trivial Web service I wrote[1] that controls the LG TV I use as a display via RS-232 (which, for UI reasons, is noticeably faster than using the TV's bundled remote for the same tasks, and much faster than using the buttons and OSD to input-switch on my previous, non-TV display).

While I have keyboard hotkeys set up for the same operations on the Mac, I frequently USB switch my keyboard and mouse to other computers connected to the display, with HDMI audio routed via S/PDIF to the same audio interface (RME Babyface Pro), so having "always-on" copies of these controls is handy.

Before the Apple Remote, I considered using controls on a small MIDI digital piano I have within reach for the same purpose, but this way is slightly more convenient in that I don't have to toggle the controls off when playing the piano.

[1] https://github.com/jasminetroll/LgTvControl