@martinbailey74
The only gamepad driver I have installed is xpad. I picked option 1 - DisplayYesNo for the security mode. I did have some trouble on the initial connection, so you'll want to select the background option under the Configure bluetooth connect mode. Once you have that, try connecting the Stadia again. Whether it connects or not, select to remove a bluetooth device, pick your Stadia from the list, and then re-connect after that.

I'm not sure why this would work for any reason, but these are the steps I took and it works for me now, and pairs right up after a reboot when ES is done loading. One other thing to think about is if the Stadia is pairing to something else before the RetroPie grabs it.

What color light are you getting on the Stadia when you're having difficulty connecting after a reboot?

**Update: I recently had some trouble with connecting my Stadia, so I changed the connection mode to "default", which seems to have fixed it. You can try both modes and see if one or the other works for you.

@mitu I fixed it! There was a problem with the Wi-Fi links around the house, as i was in the back room. It appears that the keyboard has a problem, so that is probably fine as I connected a ps3 controller via Bluetooth. Thank you!

@fbrier said in Bluetooth PS3 controller connected wirelessly, but no paired devices:

I am guessing what I should see, after pressing the PS3 button, is that all 4 LEDs on the front of the controller will blink, then the first one should become solid, as occurs when paired with an actual PS3 unit.

Pretty much, yes. Can you try resetting the controller ? You are connecting it with the USB cable to the Pi, right ?

@Zentrifuge

Found solution for everything - Batocera - Works like a charm out of the box - Even with my N30 Pro + Bluetooth from internal device.

Thank you

Now after another upgrade it seems to be running again. BT devices are visible again and I could successfully pair the PS4 controller again. Thanks

I thought that once paired via Bluetooth, the speaker would re-pair when started with the system. How did you pair the speakers with RetroPie ?

I know another user made it work by installing the newer driver on the RetroPie image (see here).

For pairing, the 1st pairing option should always work, there's no need to try the other options. After it's paired, can you run

cat /proc/bus/input/devices

and post the output ? It should show if the gamepad is detected as an input device.

@mitu Oh okay. Thank you for your time mitu.

@Waterrr said in How to turn off Bluetooth completely:

Pi Model or other hardware: Pi3B

With that board, adding "dtoverlay=disable-bt" (sorry, the dot in my prev. msg was a typo i missed to observe&edit) to /boot/config.txt (preferable) under the comment ... :

# Additional overlays and parameters are documented /boot/overlays/README

should do the trick...

@notthesame i got a fix which works, i use a m30 and Start and B and than plug in this is for Dinput for standalone emulators and will keep gamepad active and i can now set out.

This should work for any other 8bitdo

Thanks again😃✌

@hawkes_84 I'd like them to do an M30 Pro with dual analogues, hard to fit on the 6 button layout though. There's a cheapo Chinese one that sort of does it, they've tilted the buttons the other way to make room for the right analogue. From what I could work out though it's not a proper 6 button layout, one of them is for turning on autofire.

Got a 2.4G M30 on the way for my real Mega Drive, can't wait!

@GoshGeeGolly said in Pi4, pairing random Bluetooth devices.:

Does installing vice, from source, maybe damage some core dependencies of retropie itself. Hence the weirdness?

No, that shouldn't affect Bluetooth connectivity. Also, why install from source when the binary is available ? Vice is also installed out of the box, so no installation should be necessary.

Would I have better luck with a USB dongle? I do have a pretty decent Asus BT400 I think somewhere, but I'd have thought by the year 2020 the Pi4 might have a reasonable enough chip??

If you have a metal case or an USB3 hdd connected, that may interfere with the wireless chip on the Pi and an external USB dongle may work better. You haven't provided the full details asked in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first, that would have helped diagnose this faster.

Try removing all Bluetooth connected devices from the RetroPie-Setup configuration, then re-pair the controller (I assume 'dual sense' is the new PS5 controller) and see if it works better.

Hello,

Is this ok in 2025 ?

I want to buy a Dualsense for my Retropie-4.8.9 Bookworm Lite on Pi5 and I want to know if it works today, or if tricks are needed to connect a dualsense in bluetooth.

Thanks

Seems like you mis-configured your bluetooth service and it's not starting anymore. My advice is to remove the override.conf you've added for the systemd service and try again to start it. If it doesn't work, maybe start over with a new image ?

Just to close the loop on this. I was unable to try the above solution as the controller had paired, but no security settings or configuration was allowed. When I tried to unpair the controller I couldn't. I assume I had messed up the settings trying fixes for this. I uninstalled retropie and reinstalled and it worked fine. Thanks for the help.

@ZackPlonk said in Trouble re-connecting Nintendo Pro controller:

I'll set that up and report back on how it works out...

@eberhab 's script works like a charm and my pro-controllers are now happily reconnecting to the RetroPie system after they have been used with the Switch

Thanks for your help!

@lindsay said in Sony PS3 controller Bluetooth:

What’s the correct way to do this now? (The documentation says it’s no longer relevant and needs to be updated -hence my question)

Which part is marked no longer relevant ?

I’ve tried 6axis, sonyhid, ps3 controller with official, gasia, etc. But I’m lost.

If you want to use the controller via Bluetooth, you'll have to pair it via the Bluetooth menu - as detailed in the Docs.

Ok, so had a bit of time to tinker, and I can confirm that Joycons are working perfectly in 4.7.19. Seems it's a bug in 4.8.

Now - any tips on getting them to sync at startup - I find I have to be very precise to the moment I turn them on during boot up, otherwise they don't pair!