Help setting up controllers

mitu

@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/devices

and post the output ?

hangin

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=1f

I: 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 found

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
-bash: P:: command not found
B: MSC=10

I: 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=10

I: 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

hangin

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.

mitu

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=10

That'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) ?

hangin

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

hangin

correction h20 keyboard and touchpad not a joystick.

mitu

Try setting the controllers' order through the Advanced Configuration Editor. Edit the options for all libretro emulators and change the controller order.

hangin

I tried that already but i'll try that again and see what happens. ty

hangin

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?

mitu

@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.

hangin

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.

hangin

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.