Atrract mode and BT keyboard not working

[rridenour]

I have a BT keyboard that works well with retropie. I am running current versions of both retropie and attractmode. I have my default boot to attract mode and when it does the keyboard does not work but if I drop to terminal and type attract it then works fine. I read that the boot config needs to not use xinit attract but does the newest version not have X installed? I have read the boot.cfg and if I remember correctly it does not have xinit attract in it. So I guess what I need to know is how to put a delay timer in the boot to give the BT time to get initiated and then the keyboard then attract mode to launch.

Thanks

[Floob]

Are you running AM from the experimental menu within RetroPie, or did you build it with a specific image?

[rridenour]

I used the motion blue image i checked the boot files and it is listed as just attract to launch, I am wondering if i need a boot delay to give the BT time to initialize. But this was on other images i have tried also

[Floob]

Ok, if you use the RetroPie image and confirm steps then I'm sure someone can help. I wont be able to support the many variants of images that are out there though.
I'll try a new guide using the RetroPie experimental AM version soon.

[rridenour]

Thanks for looking into it, although I don't know if starting over with "clean images" would solve the issue. Because it is this way with all images. I have not tried retropie and attractmode from experimental but i may load it and see if it makes a difference. I thought i figured it out but it did not work tried to configure in bluetooth to load the devices at boot but still does not load. in the meantime i will just have to keep dropping out of attractmode and type attract to get my kb. thanks for the replying back

[Floob]

Yes, give it a go from a version with the standard build and add AM from experimental. I'm sure Buzz integrated it better than I would have done, plus I could do the same to help debug if it still doesnt work.