Automatic cursor movement in runcommand

MiK

@mitu said in Automatic cursor movement in runcommand:

If it actually has 2 buttons, then it would be able to fully operate the runcommand menus (1 button is enough for most actions anyway). I'll think of something and may have an updated version you could test in a day.

The adapter supports two joysticks. Each joystick has one button.

But the driver in RetroPie doesn't support the button of the second joystick at all. sdl2-jstest shows that the axis of the second joystick results in the same values as the first joystick. In both cases it says "joystick: 0".

MiK

@mitu said in Automatic cursor movement in runcommand:

I'll think of something and may have an updated version you could test in a day.

One more information, I forgot: This problem wasn't there in older versions. It appeared in one of the last updates. Unfortunately I can't say which update, because I used only Kodi in the last months an didn't try to start a game.

mitu

@mik said in Automatic cursor movement in runcommand:

This problem wasn't there in older versions.

Probably because joy2key was updated at the end of June and the new version uses now SDL2 under the hood.
I have a tentative fix for this class of problems. Can you repeat the test from yesterday, but with [this version] of joy2key:

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cmitu/RetroPie-Setup/99fb97f5aef306f522850c6ebeea0117c2c6dd48/scriptmodules/admin/joy2key/joy2key_sdl.py

python3 joy2key_sdl.py kcub1 kcuf1 kcuu1 kcud1 0x0a 0x20 0x1b 0x00 kpp knp -d

You should see the connected devices and any inputs from your gamepad(s). You can try with both controllers connected and see if the inputs are correctly registered.

MiK

@mitu I will try later in the evening.
I'm not very familiar with python, but shouldn't there be the file name in the second line?

mitu

@mik said in Automatic cursor movement in runcommand:

but shouldn't there be the file name in the second line?

Yes, I forgot to add it. Should be fine now, thanks for noticing.

MiK

@mitu said in Automatic cursor movement in runcommand:

I have a tentative fix for this class of problems. Can you repeat the test from yesterday, but with [this version] of joy2key:

The fix seems to work. After starting the script, I only get:

pi@retropie:~/joy2key-test $ python3 joy2key_sdl.py kcub1 kcuf1 kcuu1 kcud1 0x0a 0x20 0x1b 0x00 kpp knp -d
pi@retropie:~/joy2key-test $ 2021-11-01 23:18:54,466 DEBUG  Using SDL Version 2.0.10, PySDL2 version 0.9.3.
2021-11-01 23:18:54,467 DEBUG  Joystick #0 Microsoft X-Box 360 pad added
2021-11-01 23:18:54,467 DEBUG  Added configuration for known device Microsoft X-Box 360 pad, hats: {0: [(1, 'up'), (8, 'left'), (2, 'right'), (4, 'down')]}, buttons: {4: 'pageup', 5: 'pagedown', 2: 'y', 3: 'x', 0: 'b', 1: 'a'}, axis: {3: [(-1, 'up'), (1, 'down')], 2: [(-1, 'left'), (1, 'right')], 1: [(1, 'down'), (-1, 'up')], 0: [(1, 'right'), (-1, 'left')]}
2021-11-01 23:18:54,468 DEBUG  Joystick #1 hexagons.de Joystick added
2021-11-01 23:18:54,468 DEBUG  Added configuration for known device hexagons.de Joystick, hats: {}, buttons: {0: 'a'}, axis: {1: [(-1, 'up'), (1, 'down')], 0: [(-1, 'left'), (1, 'right')]}

Moving the joystick and pressing the buttons on the gamepad results in the corresponding outputs.

mitu

Thank you for testing and reporting the problem.
We'll add the fixes to the the RetroPie version, so one of the next updates will have the new joy2key version.

MiK

@mitu said in Automatic cursor movement in runcommand:

Thank you for testing and reporting the problem.
We'll add the fixes to the the RetroPie version, so one of the next updates will have the new joy2key version.

Thanks for your quick response and for your work on the fix.

How could I try the fixed version in the real environment (runcommand, RetroPie-Setup)?

mitu

@mik Just copy the .py file to /opt/retropie/admin/joy2key, overwriting the existing file, and it should be used instead for all menus.

EDIT: actually, just update your RetroPie-Setup script, the fixed version should be now included.

MiK

@mitu Sorry for the late reply: Everything works fine in runcommand and RetroPie-Setup with your new version.