Hi!

I really like the pressure sensitive control with the analog stick on the Xbox controller, but would also need a way to adjust that pan/tilt ptz speed using more variables. I have searched a bit but haven't found a post with this exactly request, but sorry if this is a duplicate.

Today 0.5 pressure is 0.5 movement speed. I would like to set it to half the speed, like 0.5 pressure is 0.25 speed. Just to make the control stick less sensitive, like this formula:
Pressure * 0.5 = movement speed

An even better solution is to make it possible to set the movement speed slower the more zoomed in you are. Maybe a formula like this:
Pressure * (1-(zoom * 0.9))=movement speed

So half a press on the controller is 0.5, and zoom value is 1 when fully zoomed in, results in:
0.5 * (1-(1 * 0.9))=0.05 movement speed

When fully zoomed out it's:
0.5*(1-(1 * 0))=0.5 movement speed

I hope you understand all my explanations! My reason is simply to make sure to have slow (but still pressure sensitive) movements in all scenarios.

I have tried doing some stuff using VB scripts but couldn't figure out how to solve this. Then I tried using JavaScript and gamepad API to register the movement of the Xbox controller's analog stick, then make API calls to vMix, and adjust the speed that way. The problem here is that the tab in the browser must be active all the time and vMix can't be full screen, otherwise the browser disables the gamepad API (in general puts the tab to sleep) and my clever workaround doesn't work any longer. Another problem is that I don't know the zoom position, so I can't adjust the speed based on the zoom value.

Another thought was to make API calls directly to the PTZ Optics camera to move it, but that would also depend on API calls from my JavaScript code and an active browser tab. PTZ Optics didn't have a rest API for getting the position of the zoom either.

It was a long text. If you know a solution for this, please share it with me. Otherwise I hope that you think it's a good future implementation request to vote for. :)

Thanks in advance!
Johan

+1 from me

I'm also looking for a solution for this. Xbox controllers are way too sensitive to rack smoothly.

Coupple of years ago I started writing Auto Hotkey Script that you could use to control Panasonic cameras.
I did not finished it because reasons... :-D But anyway if anyone like to take a look at it is available in Github.
https://github.com/TuomasJaa/PanasonicController

Or even better... If vMix just implements variable speed, dualrate and expo settings for joystick momevent that would be nice.