What could cause a Raspberry pi 4, running Retropie, to shut down in the middle of gameplay?
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I have it hooked up to a four player joystick system with each having 1 joystick, and 7 buttons per controller setup(ordered from Amazon). I am using a canakit 5.1 v 3.5a power supply. I have the the latest raspbian and Retropie 4.6. The system shuts off at about the 10 min mark each time. This does not occur when I play with a keyboard.
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@YJK I would guess that your power supply is struggling with all those illuminated buttons each drawing 20mA?
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@rbaker I have tried only hooking up one set and disconnected the leds and it still does it.
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@YJK How are you cooling it? I also don't trust 3rd party psu's. I only go with official.
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@YJK If it does it when you only connect your controller gear then at least you know that is the cause. It could be overheating see:
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2019/raspberry-pi-4-needs-fan-heres-why-and-how-you-can-add-one
I use separate power supplies for controls, sound and Pi and I always power the Pi with an official psu. If you have any other usb devices on top of your kit, it all adds to the current draw. Increased current means a poor supply cannot hold 5V and the voltage collapses - so does the pi
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@Darksavior I have an external acrylic case with a pi-fan cooling kit. I was checking the temp as it ran and it never exceeded 48 degrees C.
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@rbaker I was using a powered usb hub for the four joystick controls. The Canakit power was a unit that was recommended to buy for powering the Raspberry pi.
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@YJK said in What could cause a Raspberry pi 4, running Retropie, to shut down in the middle of gameplay?:
@rbaker I have tried only hooking up one set and disconnected the leds and it still does it.
You said that it doesn't happen when you use a keyboard - are the LEDs/buttons still connected when doing so ?
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Hello Everyone,
Thank you for all the advice but I figured out that the unit was going into sleep mode since there was no keyboard or mouse input. The joysticks and buttons do not register as activity on the system. I just went in and made it so that the system does not go to sleep. -
@YJK sounds like you are running from the desktop which is not correct. How did you install RetroPie?
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