You should try out the xpadneo driver: https://github.com/atar-axis/xpadneo see the section under install. This is specifically designed to work with the bluetooth xbox one controller model 1708.

@Babis said in Controllers Setup: If I install a fresh image of retropie will my roms remain or do I have to back them up and re upload them? A fresh image will have only RetroPie, no ROMs are included in the image. You'll have to back them up if you like to keep your existing files.

@DavidB21 oh okay that's good. I'm glad you found something that would work.

Which is your budget? If you want something with top quality and wish to spend 30, 50 or more dollars, I'd recommend you any 8bitdo bluetooth controllers. These are great recreations of controllers from older consoles such as SNES, Mega Drive and NES. They even created a SNES controller with two analogs and two more shoulder buttons, just like a PS4 controller. However, if you don't want to spend more than 10 dollars per controller, I'd recommend you USB controllers from older consoles that you can buy on AliExpress. Here's some examples: NES USB - Around 3 dollars per unit SNES USB - Around 4 dollars per unit Sega Genesis USB - Around 5 dollars per unit Sega Saturn USB - 10 dollars per unit

How are you connecting the devices - do you have an USB hub (and which type) ? Can you check the system log with dmesg to see if any errors appear there when the controller becomes unresponsive ? What power source (and no, a phone charger is not a proper power source) are you using ?

@zacho95 Also another thing you can try is powering off the console, pulling the power cord/power supply, press the power button on the Xbone a couple of times to drain it, and then reboot and retry. I used to get paid to do this shit for Microsoft :) When you connect a controller to an XBONE via wired or wireless, it saves the ID of the console in the controller's memory, so if it is not connecting to it after all of these steps, it is probably the wireless functionality on the controller that is dead (in all my years of working we have not had the wireless adapter on the console side break). I have seen a lot of those original controllers break over the years :) Also if you have a friend with an XBONE, try to pair it to that console

What exactly did that do though? I would like for the script to only execute when I click on an icon or something of it in Emulation Station. Sorry if I'm still being a pain on this. :(

@simonster @demesauce Okay thanks

I have also now got Kodi installed onto it so its my home media center to! :)

@goodfriendbob https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Creating-Your-Own-EmulationStation-Theme/

Sorry for reviving an old topic, but installing these drivers https://github.com/atar-axis/xpadneo worked for me. One thing to keep of note is when configuring the controller to make sure it matches what it says here for a Logitech Controller https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Logitech-Controller/#l2r2-top-triggers that L2 and R2 need to be +. After that select, and every other button, worked fine for me.

@w44dde your issue is pretty common, check your wires on the joystick. I bet you have the wires connected "upside down" on one of the joysticks. Simple fix should be just to switch the wires connected to the joystick for player 2.

To add to this I was able to get it connected again. It worked and I tested a couple games. I restarted the Pi and it would not work. If I shut down the pi and turn it back on, then turn the controller back on it connects. If I go to config to setup Joypad order it only shows '4' xbox controllers even though only 1 is connected. I shut down a couple more times like normal and booted up and controller connected. Now I shut down and boot the system back up and controller does not connect. Just blinks. When it does connect it will show player 1.

@Vliro If you disable the xpad driver in RetroPie you get the kernel xpad driver, which is the same between RetroPie and Raspbian (RetroPie images are Raspbian).