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      maudio
      last edited by maudio

      UPDATE : No button works... frustrating weekend :(

      Tried with cabels first. But no response yet.
      I planned to solder the outputs to the front(back) panel of a Snes, so you can plug original Snes Controllers in.

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        petrockblog Global Moderator
        last edited by

        There was a bug in the recent version of the driver. That is fixed now! Please pull the latest version of the driver and re-install it. Hope that helps!

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          dantropie
          last edited by

          im having the same issue. cannot get my arcade buttons detected at all. i tried reloading the drivers today at 1/16/17 8:44PM and still nothing. any h elp?

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            dantropie
            last edited by

            i got it to work!!! FINALLY!
            I basically started over from scratch. I installed a clean image of retropie on my sd card and redid the entire process. took an hour or so but it finally works!!!
            some of the installation process went a bit differently, so perhaps i made a typo or something the first time around.

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              petrockblog Global Moderator
              last edited by

              Glad to hear!

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                m312
                last edited by m312

                Still nothing in sudo nano /etc/controlblockconfig.cfg

                Tried a fresh install, followed the steps on http://blog.petrockblock.com/2014/12/29/controlblock-power-switch-and-io-for-the-raspberry-pi/

                The step that doesn't work is:
                13. Clone the ControlBlock driver repository: “git clone –recursive git://github.com/petrockblog/ControlBlockService2.git”.

                It does clone if you use --recursive, I don't know if I'm going wrong here, or if there is something else wrong...?

                Step 15: Build Makefile: mkdir build && cd build && cmake ..
                Is that just a single line? copied and pasted as it is? This isn't on the video either, but make does not do anything without doing it

                I notice theres similar comments on the YouTube video too of the config file being empty...

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                  m312
                  last edited by

                  controlblockconfig.cfg just doesn't exist :(

                  0_1484683396054_config.png

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                    petrockblog Global Moderator
                    last edited by

                    The config file should be located at /usr/local/etc/controlblockconfig.cfg now. The documentation at Github was updated already, the documentation on petrockblock.com was updated just now.

                    Does it exist at /usr/local/etc/controlblockconfig.cfg?

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                      m312
                      last edited by

                      Wahey! I've got something in the file!

                      I deleted the ControlBlockService2 folder and clones again with the github instructions (which is different to the petrockblog website):

                      git clone --recursive https://github.com/petrockblog/ControlBlockService2.git

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                        m312 @petrockblog
                        last edited by

                        @petrockblog Whoops, sorry already tried updating from git hub

                        Think you need to update the petrockblog website so that step 13 says:

                        git clone --recursive https://github.com/petrockblog/ControlBlockService2.git

                        rather than

                        git clone –recursive git://github.com/petrockblog/ControlBlockService2.git

                        Thanks for the help, will be back if I still can't get it working, but at least the file exists now! :)

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                          m312
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                          It all works now! Whooooo!

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                            petrockblog Global Moderator
                            last edited by

                            Thanks for the hint - I updated the URL in the documentation.

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                              petrockblog Global Moderator
                              last edited by

                              And glad to hear it is working for you now!

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