Power On/Off Button is in Reverse... Pushed-IN is OFF and Pushed-OUT is on.

briandamico

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Any suggestions aside from messing with the wires, which I did, now granted i tried a lot of configuration of the wires but they all did not fix the issue.

I am going into a Mausberry Shutdown Circuit as well.

Power is set to the SW slots and Reset is set to the RST slots

Is there the possibility that i need to adjust script?

thanks everyone!

Brian D

edmaul69

@briandamico any info/ pics of the switch you are using?

briandamico

@edmaul69 lol Ed, are you getting tired of helping me ? I'm going to have to send you a gift basket when were done.

ok take a peek here

http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l137/briandamico/nes/Screen Shot 2017-05-26 at 6.34.09 PM.png

if you can't make out the photo too well let me know

so just some additional info, i moved the wires around quite a bit trying different variations, all of them failed to reverse it. sure i could of missed something but can't figure it out.

The mausberry switch is on the far right where the wires go to. for some reason this switch has SW without a + or - near a specific hole like the RST does.

just feel this shouldn't be rocket science. The switch is the original NES mini circuit board. but i only tapped into the actual switch itself and the actual reset button as u can clearly see in the photos

thanks Ed

AlexMurphy

@briandamico I doubt anyone is getting tired of helping. You just need to provide more info. BTW, Can you not put images on photob*cket, please. Images can be uploaded to the forum.

briandamico

can u tell me how to do that Alex?
is that taking the link from PB and inputting it. or is there literally an upload link

never mind, found it, accept it has an error

briandamico

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AlexMurphy

@briandamico When you hit REPLY there is a wee cloud with an up arrow. I just hate fighting through the adverts on PhotoFuckit.

radiofreero

That's a 4 prong switch. You will either need to wire it through the connector, use a bread board, or create your own PCB for it. Wiring directly to the button like that will not help.

briandamico

@radiofreero
the right button is a reset button and the left push button is for power which is what they were originally used for

now when you say wire it through the connector, what do you mean exactly?

at this moment its working, just in reverse.

AlexMurphy

@briandamico If it is working in reverse... Have you tried wiring it in reverse?

briandamico

@AlexMurphy I've tried every which way and nothing has changed it

AlexMurphy

@briandamico Ok, I was being facetious, You need, if you want help, to give some basic info, you need to start from the very start. No one can guess your set-up. Please do not post a support request without first reading and following the advice in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

edmaul69

@briandamico can you post a link to your switch you bought? So it is probably a dpdt )double pole double throw) or spdt (single pole double throw) switch. You have it wired to normally open (up positition). You need to put it on a different pin set for the normally closed (pushed down)

edmaul69

@briandamico best way to test is to use a multimeter on the diode setting. ->|- With the button pushed down, find two pins the make the multimeter beep or show something close to 0.00 (zero). Then push it back up. Then if those two pins dont beep pushed up they are the ones you want. The two pins on the opposite side of what you wired to are probably correct pins.

briandamico

@AlexMurphy well my apologies Alex i was happy with my initial post as I thought it was pretty clear but i am happy to be extremely more in depth. so i will try to do so now

Pi Model - Raspberry Pi Model 3 B
Power Supply used: NorthPada Raspberry Pi 3 Model B Power Supply Charger AC Adapter 5V 3A PSU Micro USB 5 Feet with Power On / Off Switch
RetroPie Version Used - 4.2
Built From: Custom from scratch
USB Devices connected: 2 soldered USB female connectors
Controller used: Custom NES USB and Wii U Wireless
Mausberry Shutdown Circuit is being used and is properly set up via script to shut down properly

the problem: I have an NES mini (original) that i gut everything but the original Power On/off - reset - LED board.
I would like to use the original board and am pretty much am using it for the fact the power push button is in reverse. Out is ON and In is Off. plain and simply

I hooked up a sep LED to the Pie via the mausberry shut down LED tab and the ground to the Raspberry pis ground 3 GIO pin.

So if if this is too much to figure out, i am open to suggestions and part list suggestions to building a similar Bread board with a push button and reset button and led light if it will work properly. but if we can get the original to work in Non-reverse- id be forever grateful

hope this explains everything

edmaul69

@briandamico read my last two posts.

briandamico

@edmaul69 if you go to http://mausberrycircuits.com and click SHUTDOWN CIRCUIT (USE YOUR OWN SWITCH) and see the direct micro USB one thats what i have.

now you ask about it being wired normally and i don't know what double pole double throw means and single old double throw means.

so how to i change the pin set if i am blunt asking that. I'm sure i already know but you can always tell me again

briandamico

@edmaul69 ok i can try this with a multimeter

which you can see here.

what setting would u like me to use

edmaul69

@briandamico you see you have two wires soldered to one side of the switch. Move them to the pins on the other side of your switch. That will probably fix it.

briandamico

@edmaul69 well i did try that and it didn't not change.

i tried many many many many combos with the wires ed.

i did bottom 2 pins left side, bottom 2 pins right side
top right bottom right
top left bottom left

i really did but I'm happy to do the multi meter