pi400kb VS HidGuardian

There is an issue open for macros here that seems to hint you have to grab the keyboard first:

Go here https://github.com/Gadgetoid/pi400kb and follow the instructions.

See my reply elsewhere - look at GitHub here for your keyboard issue.

It's not easy (see this GitHub repository for a 400 HID example and this Pi 4 MagPi article for a network example) and NOT just plug and play.

Mirroring laptop + using the Pi400 as keyboard: thanks to Pi400kb, I can pretty much run Windows with some Linux benefits. It may be considered a silly setup because the Pi becomes a glorified and ore expensive keyboard for the laptop, but I have the advantage of a more stable setup. The Pi can also still run headless tasks via cron, so it's not totally useless.

I'm currently working on getting Kali Linux installed and working on my Pi400 with an adafruit screen attached to the GPIO port. It's a convenient size for hand-carrying, and with the screen disconnected it could pass (to the casual observer) as a simple compact keyboard. Especially when paired with the pi400kb "driver" [1]

That it'll run off of a USB battery pack for quite some time is an added bonus. It's obviously not as powerful as a dedicated laptop but as a "cyberdeck" or an incognito penetration test device, I think it'll find a place of regular usage in my life.

[1] https://github.com/Gadgetoid/pi400kb

HidGuardian lives here: https://github.com/ViGEm/HidGuardian Its whole purpose is to block controllers from working. Figure out how she installed it and get rid of it.

And also install HidGuardian

Devreorder as already linked works well, you can also use something like HidGuardian ( https://github.com/ViGEm/HidGuardian ) normally used with Joystrick Gremlin or UCR to prevent programs from seeing certain devices at all, which can be handy in various circumstances.

Hid Guardian (Last commit 2020-12-17)is discontinued, mentions a newer HidHide so if you're using HID Guardian, you might want to make the switch.

If you install HIDGuardian, hide controller will *always* work, but you have to whitelist apps that you want to detect the controller individually as you launch them. It's not ideal, but it's the best solution I've found.

So a problem may arise after you use VJOY/Gremlin to create a new combined virtual device. This problem is that some games won't show all devices as they stop enumerating after one or two. You will then need to use HIDGuardian https://github.com/ViGEm/HidGuardian to hide the individual devices so that only the newly created combined virtual device is shown. There are a large amount of youtube videos on both VJOY and Gremlin as they are used most often.