Help with a teesny controller issue:

Mechdude

Hi there,

Thanks id like to say what an amazing site this is, I came here looking for information and just found myself reading through so many forum posts and learning a great deal, in fact it was this forum which kind of got me into this problem in the first place...
After checking out the awesome "projects" section I decided to make my own..
everything seems fine except I am having this last problem.

I am using a raspberry pi 3, I am also using the official raspberry pi screen, and for the control pad I decided to go all in and try to build one with a teensy++2.0.
I have got everything wired up correctly and I can start the retro pi.
Once everything is loaded I am asked to set my button config in emulation station, this goes to plan. however the next section I try to select "retropi setup" and the teensy goes dead, in fact if I press anything in this second "retropie" menu it seems to run some scripts and then teensy goes dead.
The weird thing is if I leave it for a while all backlights dims (as expected) but when I click a button all lights brighten but I still cannot do anything.

Any help would be amazing!
thanks you for your time.

Mechdude

A bit more information in case it helps?
Every time I start the raspberry pi when I get to emulation station I have to re input all of my controls even if I did it successfully.
I am able to post my code from my teensy however it basically loops through all pins checking state, and I have the actual device set to a serial keyboard, mouse, joystick

hope this extra info helps :)
thanks again

Xeon

Keyboard emulation... can you do it?

Mechdude

HI there
thanks so much for getting back to me!
I am sorry to be a pain, however I am fairly new to this, what is meant by keyboard emulation?
Do you mean the options in the Aurduino IDE?
I have the following:
Serial
Keyboard + Mouse + Joystick
Serial Keyboard + Mouse + Joystick <- one I am using
Disk internal + keyboard
Disk (SD) + keyboard
MIDI
Raw HID
Flight controller

Thanks again

Xeon

Sorry I am a utter douche.
Recently broke my right arm so i cant solder or play games.

I could be wrong but the quickest fix is to make the teensy act as a keyboard gamepad hybrid
Making use of the dirrectional keys ect... for use in menu's.

i have only seen this work with a gamepad once... and i have no idea how i enabled it.

Been trying to see if google can spot the answer.
But i'm guessing one of the more skilled guys is about to melt my face as i am sure they also apply buttons to the script menu's in the recent update.

I could be wrong.

Again sorry for my attitude.
And best of luck buddy.

Mechdude

Hey not at all thank you so much for your time!
Sorry to hear about your arm, hope you get to soldering and playing games asap!

Mechdude

I have tried these different profiles however they do not seem to do anything, I cannot even get to the emulation station config screen.
Any help would be awesome!