Can the nRF52832 support an HID joystick profile?

[jstoezel]

Hi:

Looking in both SDK12/13 I cannot see any examples related to an HID Joystick/Gamepad. It looks like somebody asked a similar question here: devzone.nordicsemi.com/.../

I did start to modify the mouse example to act as a joystick. modifying report_map_data to report a joystick. Windows then reported an error with the driver of the joystick.

Looking further into the code, I can see mouse specific API calls being made including &hids_init_obj.security_mode_boot_mouse_inp_rep.cccd_write_perm, hids_init_obj.is_mouse and ble_hids_boot_mouse_inp_rep_send.

Parsing the SDK I cannot find equivalents for a joystick and so I got to wonder if the SDK really supports joysticks. Apart from the HID descriptor, which is pretty straight forward, what is necessary to modify in the HID initialization to report a joystick? Particularly those calls to BLE_GAP_CONN_SEC_MODE_SET_ENC_NO_MITM and BLE_GAP_CONN_SEC_MODE_SET_NO_ACCESS.

Regards, JS

[Turbo J]

More likely just a mis-formatted report descriptor. You may want to post that here.

[FormerMember]

Yes, the nRF52832 can support an HID joystick profile. Unfortunately, we haven't implemented it, but this post gives you some start information for how to do it.