Devices listed multiple times in Preferences - Controller

[jus]

Tested with latest lp:mixxx r3159 MacOSX 10.6.8 and a fresh mixxx database

I have external keyboard and pen tablet connected to my Macbook pro. Under Preferences->Controller they are listed multiple times. This is confusing. If i disconnect the external devices, even the internal trackpad is listed 4 times. Listing/Screenshot is from when the externals are connected. Also we should make the left column in the preferences window resizable, you can`t even read the full names of the devices in the listing.

Excerpt from mixxx.log
Debug [Main]: Displaying mixxx
Debug [Controller]: ControllerManager: Setting up devices
Debug [Controller]: Scanning PortMIDI devices:
Debug [Controller]: Scanning HSS1394 devices:
Debug [Controller]: Nodes detected: 0
Debug [Controller]: Scanning HID devices:
  Found Apple Computer, Inc. Apple IR r16, S/N Interface -1
  Found Apple Mikey HID Driver r0, S/N Interface -1
  Found Apple Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad r108, S/N Interface -1
  Found Apple Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad r0, S/N Interface -1
  Found Wacom Co.,Ltd. CTL-460 r106, S/N Interface -1
  Found Apple, Inc Apple Keyboard r69, S/N Interface -1
  Found Apple Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad r108, S/N Interface -1
  Found Apple Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad r108, S/N Interface -1
  Found Wacom Co.,Ltd. CTL-460 r0, S/N Interface -1
  Found Wacom Co.,Ltd. CTL-460 r106, S/N Interface -1
  Found Apple, Inc Apple Keyboard r69, S/N Interface -1
Debug [Controller]: ControllerManager::getControllerList
Debug [Controller]: Setting qConfigPath from location in resourcePath commandline arg: "res/"
Warning [Controller]: Cannot find "Apple_IR_.cntrlr.xml" in either res/ "or the user's Mixxx directories (/Users/user/Library/Application Support/Mixxx/presets/" "/Users/user/Library/Application Support/Mixxx/controllers/)"
Debug [Main]: resize QSize(1280, 700)
Debug [Controller]: Setting qConfigPath from location in resourcePath commandline arg: "res/"
Warning [Controller]: Cannot find "Apple_Mikey_HID_Driver_.cntrlr.xml" in either res/ "or the user's Mixxx directories (/Users/user/Library/Application Support/Mixxx/presets/" "/Users/user/Library/Application Support/Mixxx/controllers/)"
Debug [Controller]: Setting qConfigPath from location in resourcePath commandline arg: "res/"
Warning [Controller]: Cannot find "Apple_Internal_Keyboard_/_Trackpad_.cntrlr.xml" in either res/ "or the user's Mixxx directories (/Users/user/Library/Application Support/Mixxx/presets/" "/Users/user/Library/Application Support/Mixxx/controllers/)"
Debug [Controller]: Setting qConfigPath from location in resourcePath commandline arg: "res/"
Warning [Controller]: Cannot find "Apple_Internal_Keyboard_/_Trackpad_--2.cntrlr.xml" in either res/ "or the user's Mixxx directories (/Users/user/Library/Application Support/Mixxx/presets/" "/Users/user/Library/Application Support/Mixxx/controllers/)"
Debug [Controller]: Setting qConfigPath from location in resourcePath commandline arg: "res/"
Warning [Controller]: Cannot find "CTL-460_.cntrlr.xml" in either res/ "or the user's Mixxx directories (/Users/user/Library/Application Support/Mixxx/presets/" "/Users/user/Library/Application Support/Mixxx/controllers/)"
Debug [Controller]: Setting qConfigPath from location in resourcePath commandline arg: "res/"
Warning [Controller]: Cannot find "Apple_Keyboard_.cntrlr.xml" in either res/ "or the user's Mixxx directories (/Users/user/Library/Application Support/Mixxx/presets/" "/Users/user/Library/Application Support/Mixxx/controllers/)"
Debug [Controller]: Setting qConfigPath from location in resourcePath commandline arg: "res/"
Warning [Controller]: Cannot find "Apple_Internal_Keyboard_/_Trackpad_--3.cntrlr.xml" in either res/ "or the user's Mixxx directories (/Users/user/Library/Application Support/Mixxx/presets/" "/Users/user/Library/Application Support/Mixxx/controllers/)"
Debug [Controller]: Setting qConfigPath from location in resourcePath commandline arg: "res/"
Warning [Controller]: Cannot find "Apple_Internal_Keyboard_/_Trackpad_--4.cntrlr.xml" in either res/ "or the user's Mixxx directories (/Users/user/Library/Application Support/Mixxx/presets/" "/Users/user/Library/Application Support/Mixxx/controllers/)"
Debug [Controller]: Setting qConfigPath from location in resourcePath commandline arg: "res/"
Warning [Controller]: Cannot find "CTL-460_--2.cntrlr.xml" in either res/ "or the user's Mixxx directories (/Users/user/Library/Application Support/Mixxx/presets/" "/Users/user/Library/Application Support/Mixxx/controllers/)"
Debug [Controller]: Setting qConfigPath from location in resourcePath commandline arg: "res/"
Warning [Controller]: Cannot find "CTL-460_--3.cntrlr.xml" in either res/ "or the user's Mixxx directories (/Users/user/Library/Application Support/Mixxx/presets/" "/Users/user/Library/Application Support/Mixxx/controllers/)"
Debug [Controller]: Setting qConfigPath from location in resourcePath commandline arg: "res/"
Warning [Controller]: Cannot find "Apple_Keyboard_--2.cntrlr.xml" in either res/ "or the user's Mixxx directories (/Users/user/Library/Application Support/Mixxx/presets/" "/Users/user/Library/Application Support/Mixxx/controllers/)"
Debug [Controller]: Controller polling stopped.

[RJ Skerry-Ryan (rryan)]

Is this fixed?

[jus (jus)]

Nope.
See 1.11.0 final screenshot

[s7726 (gavinswanson)]

Maybe not something we can do much about but it's also kind of odd to see random Devices listed. My laptop lists 8 devices, three of which I think are related to my wireless mouse and the other 5 are just listed as USB Receiver (with some weird Unicode character in the name).

Using 1.11.0 x64

[RJ Skerry-Ryan (rryan)]

Hmm, I still can't reproduce on OS X but it would be great to get this sorted out.

[Sean M. Pappalardo (pegasus-renegadetech)]

What, you don't want to map your wireless mouse to control effects? :) Seriously, I suspect some of our more hacker type users would be interested in having access to use these pieces of hardware in Mixxx, so the ideal would be to have a run-time configurable black list. Perhaps as a preferences panel listing all devices with check boxes to the left that marks each device as hidden or not. That way we don't have to keep abreast of the latest devices as users can disable them on their own as they wish.

[RJ Skerry-Ryan (rryan)]

My assumption from Jus's report was that the dupes were not actually there in the underlying OS device list -- so I thought that was our bug.

[Daniel Schürmann (daschuer)]

Is this still an issue in Mixxx 2.2?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for Mixxx because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

[Swiftb0y (swiftb0y)]

Mixxx now uses GitHub for bug tracking. This bug has been migrated to:
https://github.com/mixxxdj/mixxx/issues/6443