Xiaomi Bluetooth Gamepad after 4.0.6 update
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Xiaomi bluetooth gamepad has an alias with chinese characters. Aka 小米无线手柄.
Before the update of 4.0.6, retroarch allowed me to see the gamepad's name as some garbled characters and I have no issues configuring the buttons binding within retroarch.
After the update, each time I enter the input binding page ( of the connected controller) , retroarch will quit automatically and throw me back to emulationstation.
If I turn off the controller and access the retroarch input binding page with my kb, it will not throw me out to emulationstation.
Anyone with the same gamepad wanna comment also?
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The only thing that changed that I can think would affect it is the version of RetroArch and I suspect it's a bug with the newer version - you can report it here - https://github.com/libretro/RetroArch/issues
The version of retroarch is probably
RetroArch: Frontend for libretro -- v1.3.6 -- 4bffe5f -- Compiler: GCC (4.9.2) 32-bitBuilt: Oct 22 2016but you can run from terminal
/opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/bin/retroarch --versionto get the version -
@BuZz said in Xiaomi Bluetooth Gamepad after 4.0.6 update:
The only thing that changed that I can think would affect it is the version of RetroArch and I suspect it's a bug with the newer version - you can report it here - https://github.com/libretro/RetroArch/issues
The version of retroarch is probably
RetroArch: Frontend for libretro -- v1.3.6 -- 4bffe5f -- Compiler: GCC (4.9.2) 32-bitBuilt: Oct 22 2016but you can run from terminal
/opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/bin/retroarch --versionto get the versionI tried to install retropie 4.1 on Ubuntu and paired the same xiaomi bt gamepad controller.. no issue encountered unlike the experience described above when using retroarch with rpi3
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In my quest to resolve the xiaomi bt controller issue, I also realised the configure BT script in retropie setup did not cater for utf 8 characters and resulted in the xiaomi controller not being able to show up in the "Display Registered & Connected Bluetooth Devices"
Did some research and added these lines in this script.
RetroPie-Setup/scriptmodules/supplementary/bluetooth/bluez-test-deviceappend under import sys
[code]
import sys
reload(sys)
sys.setdefaultencoding('utf-8')
[/code]now my xiaomi bt gamepad shows up in the display bluetooth devices page instead of showing me this error msg
"unicodeencodeerror 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 18-23"
May I suggest this script to be updated to support BT devices with UTF-8 names?
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Hey,
I have the same issues as you do.Retroarch settings crash if I try to configure the Xiaomi Gamepad.
Have yo made any progress on getting it working in the emulators?
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@farbird said in Xiaomi Bluetooth Gamepad after 4.0.6 update:
In my quest to resolve the xiaomi bt controller issue, I also realised the configure BT script in retropie setup did not cater for utf 8 characters and resulted in the xiaomi controller not being able to show up in the "Display Registered & Connected Bluetooth Devices"
Did some research and added these lines in this script.
RetroPie-Setup/scriptmodules/supplementary/bluetooth/bluez-test-deviceappend under import sys
[code]
import sys
reload(sys)
sys.setdefaultencoding('utf-8')
[/code]now my xiaomi bt gamepad shows up in the display bluetooth devices page instead of showing me this error msg
"unicodeencodeerror 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 18-23"
May I suggest this script to be updated to support BT devices with UTF-8 names?
Thank very much for your fix. I got my xiaomi show its name at the bluetooth device display. But, like you said, there's must be a problem with the last retroarch update, when I try to map the xiaomi gamepad buttons on retroarch menu it closes itself automatically and I go back to emulestation.
In other post there is a xiaomi cfg file to be placed at "/opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch-joypads/udev/小米蓝牙手柄.cfg". With this file I've got my xiaomi gamepad work nearly perfect, only button that doesn't work is right triger and I don't know why
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@diegopl2
Can you tell me which cfg you used exactly?
I tried different ones and put them directly into the retroarch-joypads folder and I tried to create the udev folder.
None of them worked inside the emulators.Did you change something else?
EDIT:
After applying the fix mentioned by @farbird I was able to see my device in the bluetooth device list.
I still can't configure it through retroarch, because it crashes.But using the .cfg posted here https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/2502/xiaomi-mi-bt-game-controller-issues/4 by @bohdans makes the controller work.
It seems like all buttons work. Just some weird behavior with the R1 Button. Select + R1 closes Retroarch emulators, no matter the hotkey settings. Select + Start does not work though. :(
@diegopl2 Are your troubles as well with R1? Because you said right trigger, but that would be R2.
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This is my cfg file content that I had configured to use for retroarch when it was still able to be configured/binding before 4.0.6
input_driver = "udev"
input_device = "小米蓝牙手柄"
input_b_btn = "4"
input_y_btn = "7"
input_select_btn = "15"
input_start_btn = "14"
input_up_btn = "h0up"
input_down_btn = "h0down"
input_left_btn = "h0left"
input_right_btn = "h0right"
input_a_btn = "5"
input_x_btn = "8"
input_l_btn = "11"
input_r_btn = "10"
input_l2_btn = "12"
input_r2_btn = "13"
input_l3_btn = "17"
input_r3_btn = "18"
input_l_x_plus_axis = "+0"
input_l_x_minus_axis = "-0"
input_l_y_plus_axis = "+1"
input_l_y_minus_axis = "-1"
input_r_x_plus_axis = "+2"
input_r_x_minus_axis = "-2"
input_r_y_plus_axis = "+5"
input_r_y_minus_axis = "-5"
input_left_axis = "-0"
input_right_axis = "+0" -
@HansWursT619
R2 is the button I'm not able to get recognized on libreto emulators :_(
I will try with the cfg that farbird has posted
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