One Joystick Key Press, Two Events

[TopherGopher]

I'm trying to view of series of images on the Sense Hat using the left and right joystick direction. The code seems to be working, but unfortunately it seems to execute twice when I press in the desired direction. I believe the issue is from the joystick going back to center. Any ideas on how to fix the problem? Here is the code.

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from sense_hat import SenseHat
import glob
from evdev import InputDevice, ecodes, list_devices
from select import select

sense = SenseHat()
sense.clear()

imageNames = glob.glob('/home/pi/8bit/*.jpg')

count = 0

sense.load_image(imageNames[0])

devices = [InputDevice(fn) for fn in list_devices()]
for dev in devices:
	if dev.name == "Raspberry Pi Sense HAT Joystick":
		js = dev
	
while True:
	r, w, x = select([dev.fd], [], [], 0.01)
	for fd in r:
		for event in dev.read():
			if event.type == ecodes.EV_KEY:# and event.value == 1:
				if event.code == ecodes.KEY_UP:
					print("up")
				elif event.code == ecodes.KEY_LEFT:
					print("left")
					if count > 0:
						count -= 1
						sense.load_image(imageNames[count])
					elif count == 0:
						count = 8
						sense.load_image(imageNames[count])					
				elif event.code == ecodes.KEY_RIGHT:
					print("right")
					if count < 8:
						count += 1
						sense.load_image(imageNames[count])
					elif count == 8:
						count = 0
						sense.load_image(imageNames[count])						
				elif event.code == ecodes.KEY_DOWN:
					print("down")
				else:
					print("enter")

[jojopi]

if event.type == ecodes.EV_KEY:# and event.value == 1:

With the event.value test commented out, you are responding to press (value==1), release (value==0), and auto-repeat (value==2) events equally.

There is a bug in the device selection too. In the "for dev in devices" loop, you have determined that js is the correct device, so you should be selecting and reading on that, not on dev. They will only be the same if the HAT happens to be the last input device detected.

[TopherGopher]

@ jojopi

Brilliant! That is exactly what I needed! Thanks for your help.

[Davespice]

Folks, did you know this has all been simplified into the Sense HAT API itself? From version 2.2.0 onwards.
Among other things you can now go:

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sense.stick.get_events()

Scroll down to Joystick here: http://pythonhosted.org/sense-hat/api/

You probably have version 2.1.0 installed though so you'll need to pull the latest version of the api.

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sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install python-sense-hat python3-sense-hat -y