Haptics

PadIO can rumble connected controllers in response to system events. All haptic configuration is optional and opt-in — omit the haptics key entirely to disable all system-event rumble.

"haptics": {
  "on_system_beep": {
    "intensity": 0.5,
    "sharpness": 0.3,
    "duration": 0.2
  },
  "on_notification": {
    "intensity": 0.6,
    "sharpness": 0.4,
    "duration": 0.25,
    "apps": ["com.apple.MobileSMS", "com.tinyspeck.slackmacgap"]
  }
}

on_system_beep

Rumble whenever macOS plays a system alert sound (the error "beep"). Fires on all connected controllers.

Field	Type	Default	Description
intensity	number	0.5	Motor strength (0.0–1.0).
sharpness	number	0.3	Haptic sharpness (0.0–1.0).
duration	number	0.2	Rumble duration in seconds.

on_notification

Rumble when a user notification is delivered by any app (or a filtered list of apps).

Field	Type	Default	Description
intensity	number	0.6	Motor strength (0.0–1.0).
sharpness	number	0.4	Haptic sharpness (0.0–1.0).
duration	number	0.25	Rumble duration in seconds.
apps	array of strings	all apps	If set, only rumble when the notification comes from one of these bundle IDs. Omit or leave empty to rumble for all apps.

rumble action type

You can also trigger a rumble directly from any button binding using the rumble action type, independently of the system-event triggers above.