Xbox One Wireless Adaptor Connection

backstander · 2 Oct 2018, 21:18

@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 · 3 Oct 2018, 05:25

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 · 3 Oct 2018, 06:52

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

tomoby · 3 Oct 2018, 16:41

@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 · 3 Oct 2018, 16:45

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

tomoby · 3 Oct 2018, 16:48

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

backstander · 3 Oct 2018, 17:38

@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 · 4 Oct 2018, 18:27

@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 · 4 Oct 2018, 19:06

@tomoby

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

backstander · 4 Oct 2018, 20:57

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 · 11 Feb 2020, 12:45

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 · 11 Feb 2020, 16:09

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

mikeydoom · 16 Feb 2020, 00:27

@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 · 17 Mar 2020, 14:44

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 · 17 Mar 2020, 14:51

@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 · 17 Mar 2020, 16:06

@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 · 17 Mar 2020, 16:13

@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 · 17 Mar 2020, 16:40

@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).

liondog · 22 Mar 2020, 08:17

@LeSabotageur Can you share the installation steps? I follow the instructions in the portal but got error when run makefile.

LeSabotageur · 23 Mar 2020, 11:03

@liondog I've followed the installation instructions there : https://github.com/medusalix/xow , launched manually xow to check if the controller was connecting correctly, then rebooted and the controller was usable in retropie.

I didn't have a problem running makefile; do you have the prerequisites listed, especially libusb ? What's the error shown ?