PDP Wired Fight Pad Pro for Nintendo Switch not being detected by steam

[Pepper0ni]

For some reason my PDP Wired Fight Pad Pro for Nintendo Switch is not detected by steamas a controller no matter which combonation of settings I enable steam to find, it instead says there are no controllers. I tried installing nintendo-hid and joycond and that didn't change anything, and the controller is found by jstest, evdev, SDL2 and emulators but not by steam. The supported controller database lists my controller so it should work but it doesn't.

I'm on lubuntu if it matters.

[Pepper0ni]

Not being detected, it says there are no controllers connected despite other things being able to detect it.

[Marlock]

did you install "steam-devices" already? it might have udev rules for that controller...

if that doesn't help, you can try "SC Controller"... despite the name, it supports several devices beyond the Steam Controller and offers quite a decent range of customizations

there may be more specific ways to fix your issue, but I have no experience with that particular device

[Pepper0ni]

Steam-devices is installed.

Unfortunatly I'm on Ubuntu 20, which does not support python 2, and there is no clear guidance on which porting attempt if any works right now, rendering SC controller unusable.

[MetalAFK]

I was having this problem and got mine to work. I went into the game options in big picture mode, then under manage game, controller options, then then chose Forced On.

As a note, my system recognizes the controller as a switch pro controller, which it isn't, but I turned on the switch compatibility anyways. I also looked at Controller Configuration under Manage Game as well, but I couldn't really change anything. Everything seemed to be assigned right. The Force On option was what did it for me. Hope this helps you or anyone else googling this.

[Reggie]

I am also having this issue, and really want to fix this. My linux is picking it up, as a gba emulator is able to receive the inputs from the controller, but steam is just refusing to recognize i have the controller. its the same issue with hollow knight too, as it also won't detect my controller. Same controller here as OP, a Wired fight pad pro

[Rodancoci]

I think we might be having the same problem. I'm on Arch and I had to manually add a udev rule for it to pick up mine as the udev rules provided by the steam package are out of date or simply missing some controllers listed in https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=5199-TOKV-4426

In Arch, admin-made udev rules go in /etc/udev/rules.d/ but it might be a different directory on Ubuntu.

You'll have to create a file (I called mine 71-wired-pro-controller.rules) with the following contents:

# Wired Fight Pad Pro for Nintendo Switch
KERNEL=="hidraw*", ATTRS{idVendor}=="0e6f", ATTRS{idProduct}=="0185", MODE="0660", TAG+="uaccess"

Unplug the controller, reload the udev rules and plug it in again (or simply reboot) and Steam should pick up the controller.