Switch to a new fork of XBoxDRV in order to get new features such as chatpad support

Syhles

@BenMcLean
I know you can download and install things via the command line from GitHub on Linux, I would suggest googling the command line commands for this.

Not guaranteed that this will work though, just a suggestion.

BenMcLean

@Syhles said in Switch to a new fork of XBoxDRV in order to get new features such as chatpad support:

@BenMcLean
I know you can download and install things via the command line from GitHub on Linux, I would suggest googling the command line commands for this.

Not guaranteed that this will work though, just a suggestion.

We all have Google, but linux driver configuration is kind of an advanced topic and I don't want to permanently screw up my retropie install by following outdated information which an inexperienced person has absolutely no way to avoid if they're just going from Googling this without talking to someone who knows what they're doing on it.

Maybe I should get a second memory stick just for testing.

herb_fargus

@BenMcLean swap it out for your branch here:

https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/blob/master/scriptmodules/supplementary/xboxdrv.sh#L30

And go to town.

I have a separate sd card I use solely for testing that I reimage at least once a week. If you don't have an extra make backups but they are cheap, so I'd recommend having an extra if your worried about borking stuff.

BenMcLean

@herb_fargus said in Switch to a new fork of XBoxDRV in order to get new features such as chatpad support:

@BenMcLean swap it out for your branch here:

https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/blob/master/scriptmodules/supplementary/xboxdrv.sh#L30

And go to town.

I have a separate sd card I use solely for testing that I reimage at least once a week. If you don't have an extra make backups but they are cheap, so I'd recommend having an extra if your worried about borking stuff.

Thank you so much. I think this is the info I needed. I will scrounge around for an SD card for testing.

BenMcLean

OK I installed to a new sd card and installed stepheny's stable branch of xboxdrv from source by changing this line to refer to https://github.com/stepheny/xboxdrv.git and I saw it succeed in getting that version when I chose "install from source" from the menu in retropie setup.

Unfortunately, I haven't observed any change in behavior after I reboot and plug in the chatpad. I'm not sure if this means the changes to the driver are ineffective or if EmulationStation isn't prepared to take advantage of them or if EmulationStation is even using that xboxdrv driver. How would I test / check to narrow down these possibilities?

BenMcLean

Bump. Anyone know what I should be trying on this?

BenMcLean

Really too bad there hasn't been any progress on this. :(

BenMcLean

Come on. Nobody knows?

mediamogul

@benmclean

xboxdrv should create a new system event for the chatpad, so you should be able to run evtest on the keyboard event if it exists.

munchausen

I know this is an old topic but I was reading it just before I tried out the xboxdrv from https://github.com/zerojay/xboxdrv/ and I thought I'd just let you know... having built and tested it all you have to do is launch xboxdrv with the --chatpad option and it works perfectly.

I don't use retropie so I don't know where you need to make this change, but that is all that is required. My main annoyance with it is that I can't find a tab key... but it works well, I'm writing this post with it on my laptop.