Xbox One Wireless Adaptor Connection

tomoby

@mitu Hi, the wireless adaptor is brand new and the latest. The controller is a second release, so the older model (pre-bluetooth) which was from 2015.

I don't have a PC to test it on but have a Mac, however it's not made to work on that.

backstander

@tomoby
What controller where you using before the XboxOne wireless controller, if any?

~~First, make sure you have either the Xpad (Easier) or xboxdrv driver installed.~~ Disregard this because you said that it worked when you plugged in using a micro USB cable.

2nd, you'll need to "bind" your Xbox One controller to your USB wireless adapter:

Connect the Xbox Wireless Adapter to your Raspberry Pi (so it has power), and then push the button on the Xbox Wireless Adapter.
Make sure the controller is powered on, and then press the controller Connect button. The controller LED will blink while it's connecting. Once it connects, the LED on the adapter and controller both go solid.

If you can't get them to bind, it could be that the wireless adapter isn't getting enough power from the Raspberry Pi's USB ports to work and you might need to bind them using a Windows computer (only need to do this once).

If you do get them to bind, then try the commands @mitu posted.

backstander

@tomoby
If you're not getting enough power, I don't know how safe this is and you'll want to make sure you have a good quality 5V 2A+ power supply for your Raspberry Pi but, you can increase the USB power output from 600mA to 1200mA (1.2A) by adding this to config.txt:

$ sudo nano /boot/config.txt

# Increase the USB from 600mA to 1200mA
max_usb_current=1

grant2258

None of this will her the xbox one dongle isint supported in linux yet. The best bet you can do is get a bluetooth version

mitu

I think @grant2258 is right. Judging by https://github.com/paroj/xpad/issues/14, support for this adapter is not implemented currently.

tomoby

@backstander Thanks for replying to my post! That’s really helpful. I’ve seen the following replies about Linux and not supporting the adaptor but I’ll give the Windows binding a go as I may as well, plus I’ll check all firmwares are up-to-date. I think it may be in vein unfortunately as there is either not enough power as you say or it sinply isn’t supported yet – as no lights come on, on the adaptor when it’s plugged in.

Thanks again, appreciate the help.

tomoby

@backstander Great idea, a last resort maybe, as you said, could be unsafe.

tomoby

@grant2258 Thanks, sounds like you might be right :( Roll on Linux updates! :)

backstander

@tomoby

but I’ll give the Windows binding a go as I may as well, plus I’ll check all firmwares are up-to-date.

I forgot to mention firmware updates! Yes, that's a good idea!

either not enough power as you say or it sinply isn’t supported yet – as no lights come on, on the adaptor when it’s plugged in

I tried this a couple years back but never got it to work so I just continued to use my Xbox 360 wireless controllers. I have the original USB wireless adapter (it looks different than yours). I also have the 2nd gen Xbox One controller with the 3.5mm audio jack. I didn't know about the "max_usb_current=1" back then so I haven't tried that. I really think it's a power issue because the receiver doesn't light up and the controller works great when plugged in directly with a micro USB cable. I was hoping the newer receiver would work now.

tomoby

@backstander I’ll definitely look into changing the power and will let you know if it works or not. If you don’t hear from me again it’s possible I burnt the house down trying :/ Thanks again for all your help!

backstander

@tomoby

If you don’t hear from me again it’s possible I burnt the house down trying :/

Did I Do That?

backstander

For fun I looked up videos of Raspberry Pi's catching fire and this is what I found:

Raspberry Pi "overclocking failure" from connecting it to a 12V lead acid batteries

A Raspberry Pi powered drone, named Zoe, catches fire at the Pi Party Weekend

LeSabotageur

Update on using the Xbox One dongle in linux : an implementation has been available for some weeks nom, here : https://github.com/medusalix/xow

I gave it a whirl on retropie but I haven't yet succeeded, I'll try again sometime later with v0.3 (I was on v0.2), but if anyone manages to use it in the meantime, I'd be interested to know.

grant2258

ill try this out at the weekend stuck on a xbox360 controller on linux at the moment

mikeydoom

@backstander

Thank you so much for this.

I was having power issues with my usb when using all 4 ports at the same time, some devices would randomly disconnect over and over until I unplugged one.

But with the fix you just posted it solved all my usb power issues,

So again I say thank you so much.

LeSabotageur

Tried it yesterday : the dongle is functional in retropie with xow V0.3 ! Installing xow is enough, no further configuration required (well, the new gamepad configuration in retropie excepted).
There SHOULD be less latency with the dongle than with bluetooth, but I haven't tested it.
@mitu : do you know if there's any plan to officially embed xow in future retropie releases ?

mitu

@LeSabotageur said in Xbox One Wireless Adaptor Connection:

@mitu : do you know if there's any plan to officially embed xow in future retropie releases ?

No, it's not right now - but I looked at the it and it shouldn't be difficult to add it as a scriptmodule. But I'm not sure about the maturity of the driver and the fact that includes a non-free/non-open source firmware blob.

MediaTek Inc. grants permission to use and redistribute aforementioned firmware
files for the use with devices containing MediaTek chipsets, but not as part of
the Linux kernel or in any other form which would require these files themselves
to be covered by the terms of the GNU General Public License or the GNU Lesser
General Public License.

These firmware files are distributed in the hope that they will be useful, but
are provided WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO IMPLIED WARRANTY
OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

LeSabotageur

@mitu Yeah I guess technically it should be fairly simple; as for the license regarding the firmware.bin, I saw it discussed there : https://github.com/medusalix/xow/issues/15 if that may help.

mitu

@LeSabotageur Thank you for the pointer - it's helpful to get the perspective from the a Debian packager. I see the package is uploaded to sid (https://packages.debian.org/sid/xow), though only for amd64. I wonder if the firmware is not already distributed as part of one of the several firmware packages included in the Debian/Ubuntu non-free repository section.

LeSabotageur

@mitu You're very welcome; for further information, there's a list of several current releases on https://github.com/medusalix/xow, listing Debian, Arch Linux, EmuELEC, GamerOS and Steam Link.
I wouldn't know however if the licenses there are similar to Retropie's (or if the respective distributors care enough about that, for that matter; I sure hope they do).