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    FlyingTomahawk @spruce_m00se
    last edited by 1 Jul 2017, 04:01

    @spruce_m00se

    Thanks for your reply and help.
    I am not so savvy with all this switch stuff. I just installed the setup script that Mausberry offers in their install manual so not sure for what kind of switch that script is. A momentary switch is a switch that has 3 pins (only 2 connected) and a non-momentary switch is a switch like an Arcade stick button from Sanwa?

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      edmaul69 @FlyingTomahawk
      last edited by edmaul69 7 Jan 2017, 05:21 1 Jul 2017, 04:20

      @FlyingTomahawk an arcade button is a momentary switch. Both mementary and non momentary can have 2-3 pins. On an arcade momentary button you have n.o. and n.c. Normally open and normally closed. If you wire to the normally open then when you press down it activates. Whe it is depressed (pushed up) it activates the normally closed. Some things require a button being detected pressed when you arent pushing it down. Not very common in an arcade to use the nc.

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        FlyingTomahawk @edmaul69
        last edited by 1 Jul 2017, 04:32

        @edmaul69

        Thx for explaining.
        So what kind of switch is inside a Famicom? Or SNES?

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          edmaul69 @FlyingTomahawk
          last edited by 1 Jul 2017, 05:14

          @FlyingTomahawk the power switch is non momentary. The reset is a momentary. Momentary meaning it only stays activated for a moment. So anything even like keyboard keys or your controller buttons that are only pressed for a moment and not permanent is a momentary switch.

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            FlyingTomahawk @edmaul69
            last edited by 1 Jul 2017, 05:22

            @edmaul69

            So non-momentary switch it is.
            So this script is useless?

            '#!/bin/bash
            
            #this is the GPIO pin connected to the lead on switch labeled OUT
            GPIOpin1=23
            
            #this is the GPIO pin connected to the lead on switch labeled IN
            GPIOpin2=24
            
            echo "$GPIOpin1" > /sys/class/gpio/export
            echo "in" > /sys/class/gpio/gpio$GPIOpin1/direction
            echo "$GPIOpin2" > /sys/class/gpio/export
            echo "out" > /sys/class/gpio/gpio$GPIOpin2/direction
            echo "1" > /sys/class/gpio/gpio$GPIOpin2/value
            while [ 1 = 1 ]; do
            power=$(cat /sys/class/gpio/gpio$GPIOpin1/value)
            if [ $power = 0 ]; then
            sleep 1
            else
            sudo poweroff
            fi
            done
            
            
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              edmaul69 @FlyingTomahawk
              last edited by 1 Jul 2017, 05:33

              @FlyingTomahawk i am assuming that it wont work for you. Im not familiar with the mausberry though.

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                FlyingTomahawk
                last edited by FlyingTomahawk 7 Jan 2017, 08:12 1 Jul 2017, 07:11

                Yeah, script seems to be not working with my current setup.
                Here pics of the current switch and setup.

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                I also have a PowerBoost 500 which I think can also be used to switch ON/OFF a RPi right?
                At least it is used here in this Pi Zero in a SNES controller build.

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                  FlyingTomahawk
                  last edited by 1 Jul 2017, 08:13

                  UPDATE


                  I tried the Mausberry switch on my RPi 3 this time and who would have thought it does work. So it looks like that the Mausberry or/and Mausberry script won't work with my Pi Zero.
                  Guess I'll have to figure out a different way then.

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                    obsidianspider @FlyingTomahawk
                    last edited by 1 Jul 2017, 10:57

                    @FlyingTomahawk

                    Good to see you're back on the project! I thought maybe a mountain of Gameboys crushed you during a recent trip to Hard-On! ;)

                    You said you have a PowerBoost 500C in the mix. Where is that in the circuit? I don't see it in your photos? I'm pretty sure the Zero in a controller build you linked to is just using the switch to cut power to the Pi. It's not triggering a soft shutdown like the Mausberry is.

                    The switch you have is not a momentary switch. It's a "latching switch" in that you flip it to one position and it stays there. That said, the Mausberry will automatically detect if the switch is a momentary one or a latching one. That's all taken care of in hardware, so the script is not the issue.

                    The script is really just detecting the state of the GPIO pins and when one drops in voltage due to the Mausberry not sending current anymore, it triggers a shutdown command.

                    You said that it works with a Pi 3, so we assume that the Mausberry itself is "good", and while I've not tried one with a Zero, I don't see why it wouldn't work, unless the GPIO pins are either configured differently in your build (I don't think so) or that something is not being detected properly.

                    I'm thinking that the best way to troubleshoot this would be to tweak the script to do something else instead of sudo poweroff or to somehow monitor the state of the GPIO pins. I'm not a programming or hardware wizard, so I'll have to think on it a bit, and it's not quite 7 AM yet.

                    To confirm that your script isn't wonky, this is the working script that I just copied from my Genesis USB hub Pi. Granted, that's with a Pi 3, but still.

                    #!/bin/bash
                    #this is the GPIO pin connected to the lead on switch labeled OUT
                    GPIOpin1=23
                    #this is the GPIO pin connected to the lead on switch labeled IN
                    GPIOpin2=24
                    echo "$GPIOpin1" > /sys/class/gpio/export
                    echo "in" > /sys/class/gpio/gpio$GPIOpin1/direction
                    echo "$GPIOpin2" > /sys/class/gpio/export
                    echo "out" > /sys/class/gpio/gpio$GPIOpin2/direction
                    echo "1" > /sys/class/gpio/gpio$GPIOpin2/value
                    while [ 1 = 1 ]; do
                    power=$(cat /sys/class/gpio/gpio$GPIOpin1/value)
                    if [ $power = 0 ]; then
                    sleep 1
                    else
                    sudo poweroff
                    fi
                    done

                    I really think it's a matter of the GPIO not being detected properly, not that the Mausberry is being weird.

                    📷 @obsidianspider

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                      spruce_m00se
                      last edited by 1 Jul 2017, 11:05

                      Well if the mausberry can detect the difference between momentary and non momentary then we should assume thats not the problem, then if the pi3 works fine witht he same switch, it would seem likely that the zero isnt maintaining the same logic on the gpio when its off as the pi3.

                      as most of these things work by shorting a pin to ground, you may want to take a digital multi meter and make sure that the pin on the pi zero stays shorted to ground when its powered off.

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                        CodeDrawer
                        last edited by 1 Jul 2017, 12:32

                        I think that it seems fun!

                        N64 emulation is the next step :)

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                          FlyingTomahawk @obsidianspider
                          last edited by 1 Jul 2017, 13:07

                          @obsidianspider

                          Hey! It is so good to see that you are still around.
                          Yeah, I totally neglected this build. I guess waiting over 2 months for the Mausberry killed it. I kept working on my Futura theme and also got into other things like eGPU stuff.
                          Got me a GTX660 and connected it to my Laptop and now I started to replay all the games I could never play on Ultra settings. Skyrim, Sniper Elite V2, Mass Effect 1-3 I tell you gaming can be sooooo time consuming.

                          Anyways, back on topic.
                          I am not sure what exactly went wrong. As you guys say the Mausberry works with the RPi 3. I will try to solder the GPIO pins tomorrow so that I can just plug in the two cables that came with the Mausberry. Maybe my soldering work was not good?
                          Still I didn't wanna stop there and leave the stuff otherwise I might not continue to work on it again. So I took all my parts and start to put them into the Famicom and here is the result. She ain't a beauty but it does work and besides I still got a few more Famicoms here to improve. The controllers can only be charged if the Pi is running. Wish there was a sleep mode like the PS4 has where you can keep charging the controllers. Here pics....
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                            spruce_m00se
                            last edited by 1 Jul 2017, 13:43

                            that retropie logo is sweet, where did you get it ?

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                              FlyingTomahawk @spruce_m00se
                              last edited by FlyingTomahawk 7 Jan 2017, 14:58 1 Jul 2017, 13:52

                              @spruce_m00se

                              I got it from the Splashscreens section in the RetroPie Settings menu. Just download the extra splashscreens.

                              rookervik-nintendo.png

                              https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/Splashscreen

                              https://github.com/HerbFargus/retropie-splashscreens-extra

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                                lilbud @FlyingTomahawk
                                last edited by 1 Jul 2017, 13:55

                                @FlyingTomahawk How did you get the clock to show up in the bottom corner?

                                Creator of the Radiocade: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/6077/radiocade

                                Backlog: http://backloggery.com/lilbud

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                                  FlyingTomahawk @lilbud
                                  last edited by 1 Jul 2017, 13:56

                                  @lilbud said in Famicom (not Mini) build (WIP):

                                  @FlyingTomahawk How did you get the clock to show up in the bottom corner?

                                  lol. that's a TV feature not RPi feature. ;-)

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                                    lilbud @FlyingTomahawk
                                    last edited by 1 Jul 2017, 13:58

                                    @FlyingTomahawk What kind of tv does that? My TV struggles with overscan, no friggin way mine has a clock.

                                    Creator of the Radiocade: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/6077/radiocade

                                    Backlog: http://backloggery.com/lilbud

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                                      FlyingTomahawk
                                      last edited by 1 Jul 2017, 14:00

                                      It's a Sharp TV. We have 2 Sharp TVs and both can display that clock on the bottom-right.

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                                        FlyingTomahawk
                                        last edited by FlyingTomahawk 7 Feb 2017, 12:21 2 Jul 2017, 11:20

                                        Back at it again...
                                        Today I soldered the 40 pin thing into the Pi Zero just to make sure that it was not my soldering work that causes the issue.

                                        alt text

                                        Test 1 -> Success!
                                        At first it looked like my solder work was sloppy after all.... BUT...
                                        After I assembled everything back together I gave it another try and the issue appeared again. Back to square one.
                                        So we know the Mausberry is working.
                                        We know it did work with the setup in the image above.
                                        So what could it be... I start to remove cables and keep testing till I found it.

                                        The adapter cable male to female micro USB (yellow arrow) that I use to is the culprit.
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                                        If I plug the power cable directly into the Pi all works like it suppose to but if I use that adapter cable it won't work.
                                        I am technically not versed and don't know why that adapter cable can cause such an issue.
                                        For now I will keep the silver power cable connected directly so that I can use the Mausberry. I will have to find a different adapter cable but even then no guarantees that it works.

                                        If someone has a link to such a cable please share, thanks.

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                                          obsidianspider @FlyingTomahawk
                                          last edited by 2 Jul 2017, 11:38

                                          @FlyingTomahawk woo hoo! I'm glad your troubleshooting helped you identify the problem component.

                                          With extensions and adapters sometimes there can be a problem with voltage drop, or just crappy materials.

                                          If you connect a multimeter up to your 5V GPIO pin and ground, are voltages different with the black cable vs the silver? I'm wondering if the black one is fluctuating or something bizarre like that.

                                          📷 @obsidianspider

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