@mitu said in Keys not working when using physical keyboard in EmulationStation Desktop Edition:

you need is to turn on Game Focus by pressing Scroll Lock

Thanks a lot mitu for your quick and precise answer. I confirm that pressing the Scroll Lock key i see a notification on screen (Game Focus On) and the keyboard full keyset is available!
I guess we can tag this post as solved ;)
And huge thanks as well to have allowed this post

It's been a while since I took another look into this, but I have a lead that this forum could possibly help with. On a side note, the Arduino forum was not very helpful at all. The only thing that I could think of was if the Arduino was being driven too much power (or if the power is inconsistent somehow), and the switched I have in the dance mat are acting as capacitors and letting some current through. I haven't done any measurements or math to look into this, but it seems very unlikely to me.

Asking chatgpt, I got lead to check permissions of the usb device, and even giving the decide all permissions does not help. However, I decided to check the dmesg log, and noticed something. I am transcribing this from a photo I took of the text on a CRC tv, so I apologize if there's errors.

[ 153.053753] usb 1-1.1.3 New USB device strings Mfr=1, Product=2 SerialNumber=3 [ 153.053758] usb 1-1.1.3 Product: Arduino Leonardo [ 153.053763] usb 1-1.1.3 Manufacturer: Arduino LLC [ 153.053768] usb 1-1.1.3 SerialNumber: HIDAF [ 153.067997] input: Arduino LLC Arduino Leonardo as /devices/platform/scb/61500000.pcie/pci0000:00/0000:00:00.0/usb1/1-1/1-1.1/1-1.1.3/1-1.1.3:1.2/0003:2341:0036.0003/input/input4 [ 153.068204] hid-generic: 0003:2341:8036.0003: input.hidraw2: USB HID v1.01 joystick (Arduino LLC Arduino Leonardo) on usb-0000:01:00.0-1.1.3/input2 [ 154.009506] cdc_acm 1-1.1.3:1.0: ttyACM0: USB ACM device [ 154.092227] usbcore: registered new interface driver cdc_acm [ 154.092232] cdc_acm: USB Abstract Control Model driver for USB *[illegible]* and USB adapter

A couple things I noticed here: The arduino is being read as an input into input 4, and it is being read as a HID joystick into input 2, and it is being read as an ACM device. Do any of you think that being registered as multiple inputs/systems could cause the issues I am seeing? And if so, how can I make Debian only recognize the arduino as one device? I am not linux savvy enough to know how to do that.

Thanks!

@kdeck2004 :

Update: I got my controller working again with RetroPi.

Root Cause: I tried two wireless keyboards and hard wired them via USB to the RetroPi. Neither one was recognized.

Solution: I used a regular USB keyboard that I use on my PC to connect to RetroPi. It immediately connected and was in use.

I had to then go into the Bluetooth settings and ‘forget device’ my 8BitDo controller. I then re-paired it using the menu and it worked like a champ. :)

Configuring the keyboard in ES doesn't mean you can't use it as a keyboard in the emulators. Please add more info about your setup, as detailed in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first and specify which emulators have you tried and didn't work.

@ShinxtheMorpeko I fixed the problem with not getting into RetroArch. I configured keyboard 2 but it still moved player 1 in Super Bomberman 2.

@Stefan2902 Did it work?

It's a known issue on the Pi 4, the controls in DraStic are not working properly. We don't have a solution at the moment, but we're looking into it.

@otello

Any suggestions?

You can check out the Keyboard Configuration File at /etc/default/keyboard.

Not sure if this will help but try this...

When you're remoted in, run the RPi Software Configuration Tool with sudo raspi-config and go to Localisation Options then Change Keyboard Layout and run through that to reset those settings.

@mitu I just did it and now seems to work correctly. Thank you. I'll let you know if I get other issues

This topic should be closed, as I figured that it's not actually because of the keyboard. Comes out the RetroPie just freezes by itself on start

It's fixed!

I've removed all .ini files in /opt/retropie/configs/gc/Config
After that I opened Dolphin and I can use the keyboard now to navigate the menu.

I found the file to modify, it is the file retroarch.cfg, which I modify to put the keys that I want.
Here it could be for other people.

Thank you for your answers and your help anyway.

Woohool!

You're welcome fellows.

Cheers!

@lostless well I'm not really concerned with who is P1 and P2 on EmulationStation. I'm concerned with trying to get one controller to map inputs. I know on an emulator's RGUI I can set P1 and P2 controls by navigating the menu with a separate controller, but sometimes it acts weird and I'll have to switch between 4 separate controllers to get it working. Choosing which controller is P1/P2 on the RGUI is easy until the controls decide to act up and get split up between 3 or 4 different controllers.

@mitu when it detects the keyboard at startup with the configuration pop up. I had a controller connected up then connected up the usb reciever to use with keyboard and no buttons worked to navigate the RP screens other than the controller.

Vice isn't a Retroarch emulator, it treats a keyboard as a real commodore keyboard. If you press f12, do you get the config menu? In there you can setup controls.

Also some c64 games seem to want joystick 2 instead of joystick 1 for control.

@Gamerguy010101 Please mark the thread as solved