@lostless Yep, the wireless router, PS5, pi, Nintendo Switch and smart TV are all within a couple meters of each other in the living room. Like I said, I didn't experience any issues using the pi upstairs. Thanks for your help here, I never would have considered that to be the issue.

I might just have to go wired when using the pi in the living room as I don't have an option to move the wireless router.

Could someone publish this patch on
RetroPie-Setup/scriptmodules/supplementary/customhidsony ?

@mitu happy to report that after installing 20.04 on another HD I am able to natively use my controllers in the menus. Now to go through the process of redoing all the OS tweaks.

Thanks for all your help @mitu

@dankcushions thanks for that suggestion. I tried that now but to no avail. BUT: it lead me down the right path and I found this thread here:
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/763/psx-multitap-retroarch-4-players/70?lang=en-US
That solved it for me!
Thanks y‘yall!

If the controllers are wireless then they probably go to sleep and don't send any button presses to the Pi. If the Pi goes to sleep the controllers won't wake it up.

@Tom_Neverwinter Could you share what you found?

But there's more. I guess the /dev/hidraw0 device is something to with motion sensors. This appears to confuse emulationstation.

https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/17650/dualshock-controllers-on-4-4-with-3b

This has a udev rule to add that removes that second device. Fixed at least one game for me.

Found it. Forgot to trust the controller in bluetoothctl:

[bluetooth]# trust 1C:96:5A:53:C1:C3 [CHG] Device 1C:96:5A:53:C1:C3 Trusted: yes Changing 1C:96:5A:53:C1:C3 trust succeeded [CHG] Device 1C:96:5A:53:C1:C3 Connected: yes

It now stays on.

@Sheldon25 said in PS4 controller, right analogue stick wont work at all:

@darthlink If you adjust the mappings in emulation station differently than how the controller is supposed to be set up, the emulator will not read the controls correctly and it will make it more difficult to figure out why the controller is not working correctly.
Another poster asked, and is still awaiting an answer. What emulator are you using to play quake 2 and soul reaver?
Do you have a ps3 or xbox controller to test and make sure that it is not related to your settings being messed up?

My ps4 controller was mapped via the emulation station input set up and both analog sticks work on n64 games, kodi, moonlight.

I am using the PS4 controller only and i am usung the lr-pcsx-rearmed emulator for PlayStation 1 games.

I had also setup my controller via the emulationstation setup menu. I have not reverted it like i know i can. So far it is still as its suppose to be, Analog with analog and D-pad with D-pad. I was just mentioning it because i know it works this way if i setup the left or right analog stick instead of D-pad but it only transfer the problem to witch ever analog i may setup as the d-pad.

@fongmac You can try this tool and see what happens: https://github.com/meleu/RetroPie-joystick-selection

Also pay attention at that message on top of every page of this forum. You should give more info on your post.