JVS/rs485 drivers for Win/Linux

[nago]

What solutions are out there to wire up a JVS IO board to a regular degular computer?

I know JVS is an rs485 protocol, so you can use a standard rs485 usb adapter to get it wired up.

How about drivers? What are people using for this? I'm aware of https://github.com/bobbydilley/JVSCore for linux, though I haven't tried it just yet. Anything else I should scope out?

What about for Windows based PCs, what are people using there?

 

[nago]

Got JVSCore working on linux, at least! It works really well, though I wish it had the capability to emulate a controller instead of keyboard input so certain games with controller support would be playable. It of course works great for MAME.

(I have no experience with USB drivers, but maybe I can figure out something besides /dev/uinput/ to try and emulate an Xbox controller... will probably poke around in that direction eventually unless I find something closer to complete instead.)

In absence of something similar for Windows, I wonder if there's a good JVS-to-controller hardware doohickey? I have an IONA which does the *opposite* translation, but I'm less aware of projects that go the other way.

Anything open source out there that uses a Pico, maybe?