8BITDO Pro in Kodi 16

dawed

Have anybody a 8Bitdo NES Pro Controller and get it working in Kodi-Port?

dawed

Still my hats and axis won't work.. no idea why - so i did a Little "hack" to still use the Controllers inside kodi... It's not great but it works... If anybody have an idea to get the hats and axis working - please let me know... on kodi debug log it Shows the axis and hats when i press it - but in the Joystick.xml, if i activate them like i think it is correct, nothing happen after...

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<keymap>
<global>
<joystick name="8Bitdo NES30 Pro">
<button id="1">Right</button>
<button id="2">Down</button>
<button id="4">Up</button>
<button id="5">Left</button>
<button id="11">Stop</button>
<button id="12">PlayPause</button>
<button id="10">ContextMenu</button>
<button id="8">Info</button>
<button id="7">FullScreen</button>
<button id="9">Quit</button>
<button id="14">Select</button>
<button id="15">Back</button>




</joystick>
</global>
</keymap>

herb_fargus

Look at the xbox360 template for the hat and axis syntax:

https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/KODI#xbox-360

dawed

So far so good...
but only those above work:

<axis limit="-1" id="1">Left</axis>
<axis limit="-1" id="2">Up</axis>
<axis limit="-1" id="4">VolumeUp</axis>
<axis limit="-1" id="5">AnalogSeekBack</axis>

Not the hats and also not the other axis... no idea why :(

EDIT: All the Limit+1 axis don't work (hat never mind so far actually). I try with trigger with other values - nothing

Cabardi

Hope someone get's this to work, and will post the keymap solution here. I'm having the same problems with my NES30 Pro ..

chavatar

Has anyone had anymore luck with this? I've spent a rainy and largely unproductive afternoon trying to get it work. Bit annoying as my PS3 Controller wirelessly works fine (showing as a PS3 Controller) but plugged in doesn't (as a Gasia)

I can get all the buttons working - but crucially not the Dpad or Analogs - the former not at all, the latter as dawed says, only for the limit="-1" attribute = "limit="+1" seems to be unrecognised. Tried hats, any variation. I've been through the retropie docs, kodi docs & logs, xbox examples (which, if they worked here, would be very useful).

I've got a functioning controller in kodi, I've assigned Down and Right to the right analog stick counter-intuitively to Up and Left limit-1. The buttons are no problem, so it can be used. But irritatingly can't get a straightforward control config, that I'd get with something working OOTB. Perhaps it's Kodi, more likely 8Bitdo, but if anyone has had more luck in the areas I've mentioned...

Pi3, 3.7 clean install from image, binary latest. I'm still fessing around with the keymap, and if anyone's interested I'll post, but my feeling is I may have to wait awhile until stuff matures.

Rascas

@chavatar about the 8bitbo pro, it can be considered a bug in the joystick support, I will fix it in the next Kodi version (16.2).

About the Gasia PS3 controller, what happens is that via bt it gets the same controller name as the original one, and works OOTB. Via USB it gets the name "Gasia something else" which is not in the default kodi PS3 xml controller config.
Copy the original PS3 xml to /home/pi/.kodi/userdata/keymaps/ and add or change the joystick name to what you get with cat /proc/bus/input/devices.
More info in https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/KODI

chavatar

@Rascas Oh that's brilliant to know, many thanks. Will stop fessing on this one for now :)

Abadox88

I am having the same problem as of yesterday I upgraded to 3.8 on Retropie and just needed my NES30 Gamepad Joystick to work in conjunction with Kodi. I noticed with my file I created I could only get Left and Up to work with the D-pad. I have tried so many combinations and failed. This is my code here:

<axis limit="-1" id="1">Left</axis>
<axis limit="-1" id="2">Up</axis>
<axis limit="+1" id="1">Right</axis>
<axis limit="+1" id="2">Down</axis>

Any help with this would be great. I am not a coder and new to Linux.

Rion

@Rascas said in 8BITDO Pro in Kodi 16:

@chavatar about the 8bitbo pro, it can be considered a bug in the joystick support, I will fix it in the next Kodi version (16.2).

I suppose this is the case with Nes30/Sfc30 to?

Rascas

@Rion I don't have neither of this gamepads but I think so, yes.

saccublenda

@Rion
Yes, I have a SFC30 and I have the same problem: UP and LEFT work, DOWN and RIGHT don't.

Sinkyboy2000

I have this same problem with the NES30 Pro. UP and LEFT work DOWN and RIGHT don't. Neither do A, B, X or Y

Is there a workaround?

dildo_baggins

same issue here.. latest.

any updates on this one?

Rascas

It will be fixed in Kodi 17, when the stable version comes out. Kodi 16 joystick support is experimental (and not official).

PetroRie

@Sinkyboy2000 said in 8BITDO Pro in Kodi 16:

I have this same problem with the NES30 Pro. UP and LEFT work DOWN and RIGHT don't. Neither do A, B, X or Y

Is there a workaround?

I have this problem with the PS4 controller too. I never knew other controllers had this problem too. I hope they fix it in the next release.

chavatar

For me, out of Retropie, Recalbox and Lakka the only one where it's been a straightforward affair, all working is Recalbox. Running Kodi Isenguard...can't wait for Krypton to catch up ;)

Much prefer Retropie, but hope ppl don't mind the mention.