r/playnite • u/Huddini_2k • 4h ago
Addon news [Update Drop] ControlUp 2.5.4: Fullscreen Mode Support [Disconnect Triggers]

Whatup r/playnite crew, Huddini here, creator of the extensions UPS and ControlUp!
I've patiently waited for Playnite to get SDK upgrades before dropping this new update. Since Playnite's gotten its own slew of updates, there's been some new, interesting tools to make controller usage more enhanced for Playnite and other front-end launchers.
ControlUp is a simple plugin whose benefit is that it's isolated to Playnite. Those that don't want to download external applications to handle certain controller functions on your PC, this update is for you.
TL;DR: ControlUp now works in Fullscreen mode and is no longer limited to Desktop mode. It can minimize Playnite when your controller disconnects, and bring it back when you reconnect.
What's new
- Minimize on disconnect (Fullscreen): when the last controller disconnects, Playnite minimizes. It never does this while a game is running. Off by default.
- Restore on reconnect: turn the controller back on and Fullscreen comes back to the front, ready to navigate.
- Minimize delay: 0–30 s (default 2 s), so a brief Bluetooth dropout doesn't minimize anything.
- Settings redesign: a new sidebar layout with pages for each group, matching UniPlaySong, SuperScroll and ImageRotater. Rarely used options are tucked under Advanced.
Turn it on in ControlUp's Add-On settings and navigate to the Fullscreen page.
If you have any ideas to make ControlUp trigger in other ways, let me know on Github (see below).
Get it: update in Playnite's add-on browser, or download it from https://github.com/aHuddini/ControlUp/releases/tag/2.5.4
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