Help setting up controllers
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Have a pi3b and a zin -mo arcade in a cabinet, 2 joysticks, which when configured work fine in both emulation station and games. However when i hook up a mini wirless 2.4g keyboard the keyboard takes over and becomes the only controller for the games. emulation station still works for all the controllers. but i no control in the games to exit or even play...
I have tried
setting up the controller order in the retoarch configs, it seems to see all of the controllers plugged into the pi and i have them in the proper order.
changing the core retoarch joypad driver file to "udev"
moving the order of inputs plugged into the usbNOW the weird thing is when I plug a diff (full size) wireless keyboard into the pi it works just fine?? any thought on this, my next step may be to try about 6 different mini keyboards to see what one works? i cant for the life of me figure out why one works and one doesn't i guess that's Linux for you?
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It would be helpful to add more info about the keyboard (model/vendor) - maybe it's also doubling as a pointer device. Add more info - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first - and try to get a verbose log from a Libretro core when running a game, then post the log (
/dev/shm/runcommand.log) on pastebin.com. -
The Keyboard is a mini type H20 Keyboard and Touchpad. The other full size keyboard i have is a logitech keyboard only. Its very possible that the mouse is causing an issues or is doubling up. How would I be able to turn this off or shut this down in the code?
I can also try and paste the code you speak off, however have never done that but can try and see if if i'm able to capture.
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Here is more info I found when looking at some of the logs
lvl2: Added unconfigured joystick USB USB Device (GUID: 03000000450c00000181000001010000, instance ID: 0, device index: 0).
lvl2: Added known joystick Xin-Mo Xin-Mo Dual Arcade (instance ID: 1, device index: 1)
lvl2: Added known joystick Xin-Mo Xin-Mo Dual Arcade (instance ID: 2, device index: 2)It seems to be adding my usb keyboard as an upconfigured joystick, when i set it up a keyboard? any thoughts on that?
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@hangin said in Help setting up controllers:
It seems to be adding my usb keyboard as an upconfigured joystick, when i set it up a keyboard? any thoughts on that?
That's because your keyboard advertises itself as a joystick. Can you run
cat /proc/bus/input/devicesand post the output ?
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pi@retropie:~ $ I: Bus=0003 Vendor=0c45 Product=8101 Version=0101
S: Sysfs=/devices/platform/soc/3f980000.usb/usb1/1-1/1-1.4/1-1.4:1.0/0003:0C45:8101.0002/input/input0
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=sysrq kbd leds event0
-bash: I:: command not found
B: PROP=0
B: EV=12001f
B: KEY=3f 3007f 0 0 0 0 4c3ffff 17aff32d bf544446 0 0 1 130f93 8b17c007 ffff7bfa d951dfff febeffdf ffefffff ffffffff fffffffe
B: REL=40
B: ABS=1 0
B: MSC=10
B: LED=1fI: Bus=0003 Vendor=0c45 Product=8101 Version=0101
N: Name="USB USB Device"
P: Phys=usb-3f980000.usb-1.4/input1
pi@retropie:~ $ N: Name="USB USB Device"
S: Sysfs=/devices/platform/soc/3f980000.usb/usb1/1-1/1-1.4/1-1.4:1.1/0003:0C45:8101.0003/input/input1
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=mouse0 event1
B: PROP=0
B: EV=17
B: KEY=1f0000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
B: REL=103
B: MSC=10
-bash: N:: command not foundI: Bus=0003 Vendor=0c45 Product=8101 Version=0101
N: Name="USB USB Device"
P: Phys=usb-3f980000.usb-1.4/input3
pi@retropie:~ $ P: Phys=usb-3f980000.usb-1.4/input0
S: Sysfs=/devices/platform/soc/3f980000.usb/usb1/1-1/1-1.4/1-1.4:1.3/0003:0C45:8101.0005/input/input2
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=event2 js0
B: PROP=0
B: EV=1b
B: KEY=7fff0000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
B: ABS=100 3063f
-bash: P:: command not found
B: MSC=10I: Bus=0003 Vendor=16c0 Product=05e1 Version=0101
N: Name="Xin-Mo Xin-Mo Dual Arcade"
P: Phys=usb-3f980000.usb-1.2/input0
S: Sysfs=/devices/platform/soc/3f980000.usb/usb1/1-1/1-1.2/1-1.2:1.0/0003:16C0:05E1.0001/input/input3
U: Uniq=
pi@retropie:~ $ S: Sysfs=/devices/platform/soc/3f980000.usb/usb1/1-1/1-1.4/1-1.4:1.0/0003:0C45:8101.0002/input/input0
H: Handlers=event3 js1
B: PROP=0
B: EV=1b
B: KEY=3ff 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
B: ABS=3
-bash: S:: command not found
B: MSC=10I: Bus=0003 Vendor=16c0 Product=05e1 Version=0101
N: Name="Xin-Mo Xin-Mo Dual Arcade"
P: Phys=usb-3f980000.usb-1.2/input0
S: Sysfs=/devices/platform/soc/3f980000.usb/usb1/1-1/1-1.2/1-1.2:1.0/0003:16C0:05E1.0001/input/input4
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=event4 js2
B: PROP=0
B: EV=1b
B: KEY=fff 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
B: ABS=3
B: MSC=10 -
I also added a dolphin light bar in this setup but when i ran that command it was not connected at the time, just trying to take away any confusion.
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OK, so the keyboard is also registering as a joystick:
I: Bus=0003 Vendor=0c45 Product=8101 Version=0101 N: Name="USB USB Device" P: Phys=usb-3f980000.usb-1.4/input3 pi@retropie:~ $ P: Phys=usb-3f980000.usb-1.4/input0 S: Sysfs=/devices/platform/soc/3f980000.usb/usb1/1-1/1-1.4/1-1.4:1.3/0003:0C45:8101.0005/input/input2 U: Uniq= H: Handlers=event2 js0 B: PROP=0 B: EV=1b B: KEY=7fff0000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 B: ABS=100 3063f B: MSC=10That's why it appears in the list of controllers for Emulationstation and also in RetroArch.
What kind of keyboard is it ? Maybe it has a switch to toggle functions off (like toggling the JS off) ? -
Keyboard is an H20 Mini Wireless Keyboard and Joystick, only option is to turn it on and off. I have ordered another type of keyboard still a combo deal just to see if it make a difference. I cant figure out what else i can o from my end? any other suggestions? i appreciate all your help
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correction h20 keyboard and touchpad not a joystick.
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Try setting the controllers' order through the Advanced Configuration Editor. Edit the options for all libretro emulators and change the controller order.
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I tried that already but i'll try that again and see what happens. ty
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How do you suggest i setup and plug in the controllers
1.) Xin - mo - top left
2.) Dolphin bar -Bottom left
3) Keyboard- Top Right
4) Nothing??
also should i configure the keyboard as the last controller?
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@hangin The Xin Mo are actually 2 controllers, so I'd add them first, then the Dolphinbar. I'd leave the keyboard alone for now and test if this configuration works.
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i got it to work, after i updated retroarch as well as the drivers. I believe this may have been a bug in the retroarch version i was using. Once i updated it auto detected everything. Thanks for all your help.
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Dolphin bar help setup. controller setup
I recently installed a dolphin bar and wi-mote and cannot get it to work in combination with Name lightgun games. The bar is seen by the PI as well as my 2 joysticks and a keyboard. It seems that I can use the "Dpad" on the Wii mote and will move the target sight within the games, however i cannot get the pointer to move when moving the remote.
I have the dolphin bar set on mode 1 and the wii has two lights side-by-side on them and have tried different modes to try and get it working. I also changed the mouse input index on player 3 and player 4, to "0" and "1" they were all set to zero previous. These are the 2 inputs that i have both the wi-mote and keyboard, i did this within the retoarch.cfg file (not sure that's the correct file for Mame).
any help is appreciated on this subject, seems to me that there is a conflict between the keyboard and mouse being on the same index, however when I change them to "0" and "1" i seem to get the same result, to be able to only use the Dpad. all the other buttons seem to respond. thanks for all the help once again.
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