Unity Control Schemes – No Events Firing

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I ran into a problem when working with the action map in my Unity game. I wanted to break the controls into their own separate schemes for rebinding, but there was a problem! When I added the control schemes, my code seemed to stop working. I checked the C# callback and Default Map on my PlayerInput component, toggling autoswitch didn't do anything, and I double-checked to make sure there were no other scripts consuming the input events.

After inspecting the InputAsset as JSON, I noticed something! The devices (although in the editor it says "All Devices") were empty!

"controlSchemes": [
    {
        "name": "Gamepad",
        "bindingGroup": "Gamepad",
        "devices": []
    },
    {
        "name": "Keyboard",
        "bindingGroup": "Keyboard",
        "devices": []
    },
    {
        "name": "GCC",
        "bindingGroup": "GCC",
        "devices": []
    }
]

Aha! I remembered a little tick box I didn't know the use of when creating the control schemes!
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Here's what it looked like after I assigned them:

"controlSchemes": [
    {
        "name": "Gamepad",
        "bindingGroup": "Gamepad",
        "devices": [
            {
                "devicePath": "",
                "isOptional": false,
                "isOR": false
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "name": "Keyboard",
        "bindingGroup": "Keyboard",
        "devices": [
            {
                "devicePath": "",
                "isOptional": false,
                "isOR": false
            }
        ]
    },
    {
        "name": "GCC",
        "bindingGroup": "GCC",
        "devices": [
            {
                "devicePath": "",
                "isOptional": false,
                "isOR": false
            }
        ]
    }
]

So remember to assign the device (although you already assigned the buttons in the action map) to the scheme!

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