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    GPIO joysticks are randomly stopping when system has been on for a short while.

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      UndeadSoul
      last edited by

      Hello,

      I seem to be having an issue where I have two GPIO joystick/button combos connected to my raspberry pi 3 b+ for my arcade unit and they will randomly stop working when the system has been on for a short while. Sometimes this seems to happen after running a game for a little while or after a screensaver appears, or just randomly stops working in the main menu.

      If anyone could please help with this situation it would be great. Thank you.

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      • mituM
        mitu Global Moderator
        last edited by mitu

        Please add some info about your setup, as detailed in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first.

        What drivers are you using the the GPIO controllers ?

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          UndeadSoul @mitu
          last edited by

          @mitu I seemed to have fixed the issue. The games I had almost entirely filled the size of the USB I had. I changed to a larger USB and the issue does not seem to happen at all anymore.

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          • Thorr69T
            Thorr69 @UndeadSoul
            last edited by

            @UndeadSoul That sounds like you have some sort of log/error log that is building up to a large file while you run the system. That seems like something you should look into.

            RPi 3b
            Official PSU
            Official RetroPie image
            Pandora's Box 5 controller

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              UndeadSoul @Thorr69
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              @Thorr69 could you elaborate on what file that would be? When I had used a 16gb USB, the romset I had totalled almost 16GB and it seemed to have been causing issues until I swapped to a larger capacity USB so I doubt it would have been a log file issue?

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