An ATTiny85 is driving the LED. The LED is connected in series with a 220 Ohm resistor directly to a GPIO pin and GND.

Ok, so just to make sure I wasn't missing anything, I did the following...

Re-download and install RetroPie. Connect to WiFi and install updates. Download and install ControlBlock driver from RetroPie setup. Configured new controllers on startup.

After doing some more testing, I discovered that my conltrol settings responded the same for NES, SNES, and all lr-* arcade emulators. Anything using mame4all seems to be governed by different setting. So for the moment, I'll stick with libretro emulators.

Now, when I go in to RetroArch from the RetroPie setup menu and make changes to the button configurations, a few things happen. Setting buttons for Restart and Quit RetroArch requires that I set a button for Toggle Hotkeys. I'd prefer not to have to do that. Making those button changes also causes Select+Start in NES and SNES to stop quiting RetroArch.

I feel like I'm getting closer, but the hotkeys are still throwing me off.
Any thoughts? Thanks.

Glad to hear that you figured it out!

@ortsac thanks for your answer. I understand and will try to find a way positioning the cable differently, or just live with it :)

Regards.

@auriuman78 I too, am having this exact issue. Controller is fresh out of the box. If I remove the voltage pin, I get inputs appearing on all buttons (ON) through jstest. Did you have any luck with it?

@edmaul69 I know normally you're supposed to just wire the positive and negative ends to the appropriate pins on the control block. They're specifically marked. But im not sure what to do at this point. Thanks for your reply

@petrockblog Thank you very much !!!!

From measuring the USB power drain from the power supply (inline USB measuring) the ControlBlock2 is pulling 5.06V and 0.421A when the yellow warning is in the upper right corner. I didn't measure the 5V output from the Pi or ControlBlock itself as I don't have my multimeter here.

@petrockblog it worked!!! Thank you!!!

To find out if the RPi GPIOs are working correctly, you can use the script as described at https://github.com/petrockblog/ControlBlockService2#checking-the-raw-gpio-of-the-raspberry. It could either be a wiring issue or an issue with the ControlBlock. I suggest to run through the script and see if the GPIOs are all working correctly.

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@rbaker said in Wired to NO instead of NC:

@domodan I thought that the terminals on the control block were screw terminals for buttons. If you are referring to the fact that you have soldered wires directly to the normally closed terminals of the micro switches inside your arcade buttons then no, you must de-solder and attach them to normally open otherwise they will all appear as permanently pressed. Why are you soldering at all? Crimp for the button contacts and terminal blocks for control block?

I'm a fan of solder over crimping and spade connectors. I don't have the right size spade connectors...the ones I have are too big. Solder works great...if you connect it to the right terminal. LOL. I was so excited I wasn't paying close enough attention for a second.

@Mikester said in ControlBlock does not work:

Thanks for your reply.

It works! I tried to uninstall everythink and followed the steps. This time I was succesful.

Thanks for your help

When you say that you "uninstalled everything" are you talking about uninstalling/reinstalling RetroPie and everything as well? Or just the ControlBlock stuff?

Mine was working fine, and then stopped and is behaving exactly as you describe. I tried removing all the ControlBlock stuff and reinstalling but the problem persists. The only thing I can think of is to do a clean install of the entire OS...I just really don't look forward to going through all of that again.

@petrockblog said in setting controlBlock service to gamepadtype: mame ?:

Yes, it will exactly do what you have written.

Thank you for your reply!

This is exactly what I did. I used wire that was probably to thick so it seemed like an easier way to do it.

Yes, you need two ControlBlocks to support 4 players. The capability for stackable ControlBlocks was recently added.

Hi just wondering with the LED ring style button did you managed to get it to work with the powerblock only lighting up the ring when latched on?
Thanks,
Tom