{"id":281243,"date":"2026-06-25T04:55:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T08:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/25\/collabplayinputdisplay-is-an-open-source-tool-for-displaying-on-screen-controller-input\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T05:55:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T09:55:08","slug":"collabplayinputdisplay-is-an-open-source-tool-for-displaying-on-screen-controller-input","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/25\/collabplayinputdisplay-is-an-open-source-tool-for-displaying-on-screen-controller-input\/","title":{"rendered":"CollabPlayInputDisplay is an open source tool for displaying on-screen controller input"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamingonlinux.com\/2026\/06\/collabplayinputdisplay-is-an-open-source-tool-for-displaying-on-screen-controller-input\/\">CollabPlayInputDisplay is an open source tool for displaying on-screen controller input<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamingonlinux.com\/2026\/06\/collabplayinputdisplay-is-an-open-source-tool-for-displaying-on-screen-controller-input\/\">https:\/\/www.gamingonlinux.com\/2026\/06\/collabplayinputdisplay-is-an-open-source-tool-for-displaying-on-screen-controller-input\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-25 04:55:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.gamingonlinux.com\">www.gamingonlinux.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Inspired by Open Joystick Display, CollabPlayInputDisplay just released a first version for on-screen controller input displaying on Linux.<\/p>\n<p>The developer emailed in to GamingOnLinux to explain: &#8220;CollabPlayInputDisplay is a game controller display that lets you view  your controller inputs in realtime, perfect for showing them on a video or stream. It has themes for common game controllers out of the box, including PlayStation, Xbox, and more. It&#8217;s designed as a powerful yet simple and easy to-use input display, and it already recognizes most controllers thanks to SDL3. Fully free and open source, and built in Godot, with a convenient single-file executable&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>Sounds like a useful project, especially for video content creators on Linux. Being able to show viewers exactly what you&#8217;re pressing is a fun little addition to videos of all kinds.<\/p>\n<p>As for the inspiration: &#8220;My inspiration for this project was Open Joystick Display, which has been abandoned a long time ago. I wanted something native, thus not dependent on faulty web APIs, and that supports showing multiple different controllers at once &#8211; think showing player 1 and player 2&#8217;s inputs at the same time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The developer told me clearly no generative AI was used for the project and had some pretty stern words against using generative AI.<\/p>\n<p>Made with Godot too &#8211; interesting to see more apps and not just games.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\ud83c\udf10 <strong>External Sources:<\/strong> codeberg.org, godotengine.org<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"hidden_message\">Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamingonlinux.com\/2026\/06\/collabplayinputdisplay-is-an-open-source-tool-for-displaying-on-screen-controller-input\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CollabPlayInputDisplay is an open source tool for displaying on-screen controller input https:\/\/www.gamingonlinux.com\/2026\/06\/collabplayinputdisplay-is-an-open-source-tool-for-displaying-on-screen-controller-input\/ Publish Date: 2026-06-25&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":281246,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.gamingonlinux.com\/uploads\/articles\/tagline_images\/1743654186id29280gol_og.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-281243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux","tag-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281243"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":281248,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281243\/revisions\/281248"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}