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@dill83 update retropie setup first.

Well, first you have a lot of addons installed that might be related to "piracy", I don't care about it, but that might cause problems, especially because many of them are done by people with little experience in coding and/or with malicious intents, be carefull about what you add to Kodi.
Second, you have a lot of errors (besides the ones from the addons I mentioned above) that Kodi cannot read or says that the file is read only:

1:43:30.972 T:1631396784 ERROR: SQL: [Textures13.db] Attempt to write a readonly database

This generally indicates that your system suffered file corruption, or most likely, your microSD card is broken or faulty.
This isn't easy to fix, and is impossible if your card is broken.
Try to move or delete your Kodi settings (/home/pi/.kodi) to start fresh with default settings.

@mitu alright so after updating everything from source and powering down and coming back I got the it to pair with my switch pro controller which seems to work fine now. I also turned off Bluetooth on all my other devices in the house phone smartwatch etc maybe that helped

Still having issues with the SteelSeries. Able to configure and regsiter all the buttons in device setup. In emulation station all the buttons seem to work as programmed but once a rom is launched the center buttons the ones I have programed to start and select don't register. Looking through the forums it seems will have to jump through a lot of hoops to get the device to play nice with the SteelSeries XL.

Any suggestions?

Btw thanks again!!!

@mitu

thank you, I appreciate the information. sorry, i skimmed the read first, must've not been paying attention.

@mitu Thank you very much for the quick reply. That was my thoughts as well. I have read that documentation but I do need to double check the update of Retropie. I will get back to you with my results. Again, thank you!

@mitu I set it up in menu - Start>config controller> hold a to config

@marcus11 https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first.
How are you connecting the controller ? I assume it's USB, since the PI2 doesn't have a bluetooth chip. Do you have more than 1 controller ?

Another thing to make sure of is that the controller firmware is up to date.

http://support.8bitdo.com/

8bitdo has gone through many iterations of their controller software. I didn't use the 8bitdo hack but was able to connect the controller normally to a Pi Zero W using normal Bluetooth methods.

thanks, but problem persist. When I install the ps3 controller driver, the onboard bluetooth of the pi3 stops working and when I remove it works again.

when doing "sudo service bluetooth status" I get the following:

pi@retropie:~ $ sudo service bluetooth status

● bluetooth.service - Bluetooth service
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/bluetooth.service; enabled)
Active: failed (Result: signal) since Tue 2017-06-13 00:05:01 UTC; 5min ago
Docs: man:bluetoothd(8)
Main PID: 767 (code=killed, signal=KILL)
Status: "Running"

Jun 12 02:17:08 retropie bluetoothd[767]: Bluetooth daemon 5.23
Jun 12 02:17:08 retropie systemd[1]: Started Bluetooth service.
Jun 12 02:17:08 retropie bluetoothd[767]: Starting SDP server
Jun 12 02:17:08 retropie bluetoothd[767]: Bluetooth management interface 1.1...d
Jun 12 02:17:08 retropie bluetoothd[767]: Sap driver initialization failed.
Jun 12 02:17:08 retropie bluetoothd[767]: sap-server: Operation not permitte...)
Jun 13 00:05:01 retropie systemd[1]: bluetooth.service: main process exited...LL
Jun 13 00:05:01 retropie systemd[1]: Unit bluetooth.service entered failed ...e.
Hint: Some lines were ellipsized, use -l to show in full.
pi@retropie:~ $

@BuZz yes I Have installed PS3 drivers in the past. How do I ensure they are completely removed?

I'll try cleaning it up and see if that fixes it.

@justkiller91 This behavior isn't normal.
I never saw something interfering a bluetooth signal like that so I guess your pi is broken at some point.

A bluetooth dongle should fix that, but I would send my raspberry back to whereever you bought it and get a new one

This is my opinion/way to solve it, it could be "correct" but it hasn't to.

Hello,
The controller,Did you start it in Windows mode or other mode ?
You have 4 mode on the controller.