The way I did it, choosing the desktop with autologin has worked so far. But now I know how to retrace my steps. Invariably, I post these an entire house away from where I'm working on the pi, so I never have the various screens right there next to me and I panic. Visual/experience learner over here :-D. Thanks again for your help. I actually posted a follow-up on the reddit thread of mine as well.

@zequico Please use a topic that summarises the problem when posting.

If he gets banned from the Lakka forums it'll be a perfect trifecta.

When I have this in rc.local:
/usr/local/bin/ds4drv --led 000008 &
exit 0

I get this error when booting into the CLI:
[ OK ] Started Getty on tty1.
[ OK ] Reached target Login Prompts.
[ OK ] Started LSB: Start NTP daemon.
[error][daemon] 'hcitool clock' returned error. Make sure your bluetooth device is powered up with 'hciconfig hciX up'.
[ OK ] Started LSB: start Samba daemons for the AD DC.
[ OK ] Started LSB: start Samba NetBIOS nameserver (nmbd).
Starting LSB: start Samba SMB/CIFS daemon (smbd)...
[ OK ] Started Configure Bluetooth Modems connected by UART.
Starting Load/Save RF Kill Switch Status of rfkill1...
Starting Bluetooth service...
[ OK ] Started Load/Save RF Kill Switch Status of rfkill1.
[ OK ] Started Bluetooth service.

Try setting your Pi to boot into the CLI and see if you have the same error.

It looks to me like something to do with BT isn't initializing in time for the rc.local entry. Does anyone know why this might be and how to rectify it?

Thanks

@KNGAlive: You can see the master THEMES.md from the original EmulationStation github repo here. The only 'sound' mentioned in this document is the <scrollsound> within the "textlist". Unless they've been added my another developer somewhere along the way (unlikely), then that is the only sound you can use. Sorry.

On a related note, I'd like to see your theme when it's done. I always love to see new themes. If you need a hand with anything else theme related, there is a Tutorial on the wiki.

Also, welcome to the Forum :D

@sonicsheppard
Thanks man :) Although, i'm not really a huge fan of the Roland Sound Canvas (especially the guitar sound). Anyways, i'll have a look at the PSX music. Although not 'authentic', it sounds more like 'real' music :)

On a sidenote, the SC55 pack features a track called 'bye bye american pie', and i can't help to think how much it sounds like a very well known Alice in Chains classic:

@cdoug does anything show on the screen when you are typing?

ok i finally uploaded everything and made a readme on github. Everything works now, when mouse mode is active the keys from your buttons are not registered anymore and you can switch between mouse mode and your normal input method. you specify and remap existing keys of your encoder specifically for use in mouse mode (you tell it if i press this button which is key CTRL for example then send key F5 instead). You can specify 6 keys like this.

i did not find a game yet that did not work with this version, my readme needs work though but it's a rather long readme for something simple to setup

@jojo280 Yeah, you should mark this thread as solved :)

Thanks for the reply but i dont find any of these options

@kingcrafty sounds like you didn't follow https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/First-Installation (Did you restart emulationstation ? Did you make sure the rom names are correct - check the wiki pages for the systems in question).

It works perfectly, thanks a lot!

@backstander
Hi. Thanks i did that also. Read it on another forum but still the same problem. Wont pick up ANY bluetooth devices. Not just the lro controller. Maybe a hardware issue. Im jist gonna get a wireless adapter to plug in via usb.
Really wanted to utilize the on board bluetooth but no biggie. Not worth the hours i already spent researching the subject. Thanks for all your help. Great forum

Here's a video that shows you how to install a power switch on a PI3.

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That's unfortunate.

Does anyone know any workarounds such as using the device as a controller rather than keyboard? Or mapping the keys to a virtual controller?