Ive searched far and wide and no one seems to have tried or exhibited an Xbox One controller being used in OSX. Has anyone tried this?
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OS X Xbox One Controller in OS X?
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I believe Feral has support for it in some of it's recent games, but I don't believe anyone has anything made to use it universally unfortunately. I'd like to see support soon as well.
Thanks fore the respsonses. So can I assume this means theres no support for Steam games or for the matter things like steam's in home streaming in OSX?
It would depend on the game however I am not aware of any other Mac games with XBONE pad support right now.
There is a driver available for Mac OS X (including Yosemite) for the Xbox One controller.
http://www.stonelightpictures.com
you can download it from that link
http://www.stonelightpictures.com
you can download it from that link
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Your post is misleading. The driver doesn't exist and won't exist unless that project is funded.
I don't think it needs all this kickstarter work from scratch, some modifications to the tattiebogle driver would get you pretty much all the major support required as the protocol on the 360 pad and the XBONE are the same, adding rumble trigger support etc might be some extra work but this is not impossible or required.
I totally don't have the spare time to work on adding the support in myself but someone who has a USB XBONE and some programming experience should be able to get it working without it being too much time and effort.
not to mention that the tattieboogie unofficial driver is open source… but you need someone with knowledge in code to be able to mod it to adapt it for Xbox One controller... 
https://github.com/d235j/360Controller/releases
https://github.com/d235j/360Controller/releases
Usually you need a driver but with Feral's latest games have a new feature to support XBox pads without any drivers needed.
I just finished a driver for the Xbox One controller for Mac OS X. You can check it out at: https://github.com/FranticRain/Xone-OSX
Unlike that Kickstarter, its free and has no licensing fee! They deleted my comment on Kickstarter though, so tell your friends.
Unlike that Kickstarter, its free and has no licensing fee! They deleted my comment on Kickstarter though, so tell your friends.
You mean Yosemite has built-in drivers for the xbox one controller?Looks like xbox one controller started working in latest yosemite, i was just surprised to see the white led turning on
Looks like xbox one controller started working in latest yosemite, i was just surprised to see the white led turning on
I don't believe Yosemite has any Xbox support, I know Apple haven't mention it at all in any documentation and our Xbox One pads are not working in OS X only in our games (as we have built in support now).
There is no support for the wireless pad as no wireless dongle exists yet (for Windows or Mac).
Possible & free
Check out my video on how to use the Xbox One Controller on MAC OS X Link: http://youtu.be/e2iLn3Jfcwk
Check out my video on how to use the Xbox One Controller on MAC OS X
Link: http://youtu.be/e2iLn3JfcwkThanks a lot for the work, as I see it is regulary updated (last update: 2nd January 2015). However, I installed the package from this link:
https://github.com/FranticRain/Xone-OSX/releases/tag/v0.4.0
rebooted the mac, and nothing happens. The xbox1 controller does nothing, and it is not recognized in any game. Is there anything I can do to make it work?
edit: it looks like the driver is for OS 10.9+, while I have installed the 10.7.5. Probably this is the reason.
I am completely ignorant and this is over my head on how to get this working.
in the description in that link, there is a sentence:
the "check the releases page" is a link: click on it to reach the installing package.
I installed it from the very same link and am playing Dirt 2 right now with my Xbox one Controller on macbook retina with Yosemite. However, there is an update to v.1 that I tried and it didn't work for me. I haven't tried on a different game yet. Hope this will help.
A wired xbox controller works with steam, just look for the controller support icon.