Steering wheels in pygame and arcade go under the name "joysticks". I was able to get my Logitech G27 Racing Wheel to work with pygame but not with Arcade. I made a project using Arcade and used the joystick handling from pygame.
General idea of the code, important parts:
joysticks = None
def init():
pygame.init()
pygame.joystick.init()
global joysticks
joysticks = [pygame.joystick.Joystick(x) for x in range(pygame.joystick.get_count())]
class MyGame(arcade.Window):
def __init__(self):
...
'''
Use Logitech G27 Racing Wheel if found, else the first connected, if
any.
'''
self.joy_in_use = None
if joysticks:
for joystick in joysticks:
if "Logitech G27 Racing Wheel USB" in joystick.get_name():
self.joy_in_use = joystick
if not self.joy_in_use:
self.joy_in_use = joysticks[0]
if self.joy_in_use:
self.joy_in_use.init()
def arcade_joystick_events(self):
for event in pygame.event.get(): # User did something.
if event.type == JOYBUTTONDOWN:
input = event.button
if (input == 0 or input == 6):
# code for player jump
if event.type == pygame.JOYAXISMOTION:
if joysticks:
if (axis_val := self.joy_in_use.get_axis(0)) > 0.2:
# code for player moving right
# axis_val can be used to affect moving speed.
elif axis_val < - 0.2:
# code for player moving left
else:
# code for player standing still
pygame.time.wait(10)
def on_update(self, delta_time):
self.arcade_joystick_events()
...
