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      dantropie
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      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
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        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
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          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
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                    @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
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                          And glad to hear it is working for you now!

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