Phone
The phone on the table
Phone next to the pad, on the coffee table. Plug in, start, and the PC in the other room gets the gamepad.
USB gamepad server for Android
Your pad.Your PC.No cables.
Plug your gamepad into a phone, tablet or Android TV box and play on the PC in the other room. Your local network does the rest.
USB/IP · ANDROID → WINDOWS · LOCAL NETWORK
How it works
One chain. Five links.
The pad goes into the Android device over USB, travels across your local network with a compatible USB/IP protocol and comes out on the PC as if it were plugged in there. Windows sees USB and loads the official driver.
Gamepad
USB-C or its USB receiver
01Android
ChimpDeck server
02Local network
Your home network
03PC
Windows client
04Game
As if it were local
05- 01
Plug in
Connect the pad to your phone, tablet or Android TV box over USB-C, or plug in its USB receiver.
- 02
Start
A welcome screen with no menus: one button, “Start server”. The SERVER · PAD · PC chain lights up as each link connects.
- 03
Play
The pad appears on the PC with its official driver. Rumble travels back from the game to the pad.
Setups
Wherever you already have an Android, you already have a server.
The same app adapts to the device: phone in hand, tablet with a side rail, and a living-room layout you drive with the pad’s D-pad.
Tablet
Tablet as a console
On a tablet the interface switches to a side rail: more room for session data and for the gamepad tools.
Android TV
From the couch to the PC
On an Android TV box wired to the television, the whole app is driven with the pad’s D-pad. No mouse, no keyboard.
Features
What it does, said plainly.
Everything in this grid is in the app today. What is not, is further down under “Coming soon”.
Your pad on the PC, over the network
Any USB gamepad — Xbox, PlayStation, Switch Pro, third party — reaches the PC with its official driver. Windows sees USB.
Latency measured, not promised
The app measures the phone → PC trip with a synchronised clock and shows you the figure with its margin of error. No “0 ms”.
Rumble on the way back
Games shake the pad through the client. On pads with trigger motors, such as Xbox ones, all four motors.
Your phone drives the client
Motors, patterns and rumble modes are controlled from the phone, and the PC mirrors the state even with the client minimised to the tray.
Gamepad tools
Button tester, stick drift and dead zone, trigger curve, four-motor rumble and a reaction test.
End-to-end encryption, out of the box
The link between the Android device and the PC is encrypted with the Noise protocol, on its own port. It is on by default and there is nothing to configure: the two devices recognise each other on their own the first time they meet on your local network.
Steady in the background
A session watchdog with reconnection and automatic handover, Wi-Fi in low-latency mode while a session is live, a background service, and autostart on boot or when the pad is plugged in.
Session summary
Exportable. Notices when a client takes or releases the pad, nicknames per pad, and several pads with filters.
Gamepad tools
Five tests to find out what is wrong with your pad.
They live inside the app, on the Android device itself, and they work whether or not a session with the PC is open.
Honest latency
We tell you how long it takes. And how wrong that figure can be.
Nobody can promise you zero milliseconds. What you can do is measure it properly and show it.
ChimpDeck synchronises the Android clock with the PC clock and measures the full trip from the pad to the client.
The number you see comes with its margin of error, because a measurement without a margin of error is not a measurement: it is a slogan.
That is why you will not find a latency figure on this page. The figure depends on your network, your pad and your PC, and the app gives it to you in your own home — not a banner on a website.
- Synchronised clock
- Margin of error in plain sight
- Measured on your network
Coming soon
What comes next.
Bluetooth mode
A virtual Xbox 360 pad on the PC, over the same tunnel the USB mode already uses.
PC streaming to the living room
Bringing the PC picture to the television by integrating Moonlight and Sunshine.
Downloads
Two pieces: the server and the client.
The Android app is the server; ChimpDeck for Windows is the client, a native window with a web console and a USB bridge. There are no public links yet.
Both downloads will be available very soon.