Kodi Controller Support, certain emulators controller doesn't work

[Moco]

Hello, I have 2 problems.

#1 - Getting Kodi to work with a controller
I have to use a mouse to work with kodi because nothing happens when I try to use my controller. Is there a way to make it work?

#2 - Some emulators do not work with my controller
I'm using an xbox 360 controller and some systems run just fine but yesterday I installed a new system and it doesn't work. (other systems still work fine)

Thanks in advance.

[Hellcube]

#1 new retropie 3.7 have kodi 1.6 with controller support, but you still have to make map files manaually.
#2 which emulators don't work be more acurate.

[Addison]

Hi.

I've followed the directions here:
https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/KODI

I skipped over the part of "For more advanced users the following is another method that you can use to set kodi as its own system." since it was a bit too confusing.

Anyway, using SSH, I typed in
cat > joystick.xml

I then pasted this and pressed CTRL-D.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<keymap>
<global>
<joystick name="USB,2-axis 8-button gamepad "><!--iBuffalo SNES-->
<button id="1">Select</button><!--A-->
<button id="2">Back</button><!--B-->
<button id="3">Stop</button><!--X-->
<button id="4">ContextMenu</button><!--Y-->
<button id="5">Rewind</button><!--L-->
<button id="6">FastForward</button><!--R-->
<button id="7">Info</button><!--SELECT-->
<button id="8">PlayPause</button><!--START-->
<button id="7,8">Quit</button><!--SELECT+START-->
<axis id="1" limit="+1">Right</axis><!--RIGHT-->
<axis id="1" limit="-1">Left</axis><!--LEFT-->
<axis id="2" limit="-1">Up</axis><!--UP-->
<axis id="2" limit="+1">Down</axis><!--DOWN-->
</joystick>
</global>
</keymap>

My iBuffalo controller does nothing with Kodi.

Do I perhaps have the wrong permissions with that joystick.xml file?

I'd really like to use WinSCP but /home/pi/.kodi doesn't show up for me as a directory, I can only see this using the command line when I SSH into my Pi.

This what I'm seeing if I type in sudo nano /home/pi/.kodi/userdata/keymaps/joystick.xml

I don't understand what I've done wrong.

Please help.

[Addison]

Okay, so I did this:

mv joystick.xml ibufallo.xml

Still nothing.

I just don't get it.

[wetriner]

What is the output when you run kodi --version in the terminal? If it isn't 16.0, joystick keymaps won't work. You'll have to remove kodi, update your setup script and reinstall.

[Addison]

15.2 Git:02e7013 Media Center Kodi
Copyright (C) 2005-2013 Team Kodi - http://kodi.tv

I'm not sure why though.

I just downloaded retropie-v3.7-rpi2 and even did an update tonight.

So how do I get the latest Kodi version?

I thought I did when I downloaded it two hours ago from the experimental packages available.

[wetriner]

Updating the setup script in RetroPie-Setup should do it, but to make sure. Compare the contents of the file kodi.sh in /home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/scriptmodules/ports/ with the github version and you'll have to use sudo apt-get remove kodi before installing again.

[Addison]

Omygosh!

I can't even begin to thank you enough Wetriner!

I finally can use my SNES controller with Kobi because of you.

So happy!