Joystick daemon as non-root user?

[jimklo]

I looked through your blog post about this and this is a pretty fantastic example. I'm trying to do something similar with a spacemouse.

Wondering about the note you made about the joystick-daemon running in Linux as non-root but on a Pi it required root. Curious what groups your user belongs to or other config that allows you to run as non-root on Linux?

[gwilymk]

Thanks for reading! I didn't realise anyone looked at my posts :P. Glad that my little experiment was useful for someone.

I've just grabbed the machine I ran this on last time, my user is now a member of:

adm, dialout, sudo, dip, plugdev, input, lpadmin, sambashare, docker

no idea if I added any of those in the years since I built the thing though... Hope that's helpful for you to be able to find out what it is :). The pi was running stock retro-pie (from when the post was written) which should help narrow down which groups the pi user is in to maybe find out why it was being awkward.