USB Joypad (Teensy) appearing as 2 joysticks

Finndersen

In my Retropie build I'm using a teensy which is acting as a USB joystick, but there are two Joystick input devices being created.
js0 seems to be incorrect/broken, using jstest it doesn't respond to any input
js1 works as expected with jstest

This problem causes joy2key to not work in Retropie menu etc since it is trying to use js0 which appears to do nothing

Below are the outputs from JSTEST. Anyone know whats up?
pi@retropie:~ $ jstest /dev/input/js0
Driver version is 2.1.0.
Joystick (Teensyduino Serial/Keyboard/Mouse/Joystick) has 2 axes (X, Y)
and 8 buttons (LeftBtn, RightBtn, MiddleBtn, SideBtn, ExtraBtn, ForwardBtn, BackBtn, TaskBtn).
Testing ... (interrupt to exit)
Axes: 0:-32767 1:-32767 Buttons: 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off 7:off

pi@retropie:~ $ jstest /dev/input/js1
Driver version is 2.1.0.
Joystick (Teensyduino Serial/Keyboard/Mouse/Joystick) has 8 axes (X, Y, Z, Rz, Throttle, Rudder, Hat0X, Hat0Y)
and 32 buttons (Trigger, ThumbBtn, ThumbBtn2, TopBtn, TopBtn2, PinkieBtn, BaseBtn, BaseBtn2, BaseBtn3, BaseBtn4, BaseBtn5, BaseBtn6, BtnDead, BtnA, BtnB, BtnC, (null), (null), (null), (null), (null), (null), (null), (null), (null), (null), (null), (null), (null), (null), (null), (null)).
Testing ... (interrupt to exit)
Axes: 0: 0 1: 0 2: 0 3: 0 4: 0 5: 0 6: 0 7: 0 Buttons: 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off 7:off 8:off 9:off 10:off 11:off 12:off 13:off 14:off 15:off 16:off 17:off 18:off 19:off

meleu

@Finndersen I don't know the reason of your device being detected as 2 joysticks. But there is a workaround to solve your joy2key issue:

Edit your /opt/retropie/configs/all/autostart.sh and put this line before the emulationstation command:

export __joy2key_dev="/dev/input/js1"

gunnarh

Hi i am working on portable Retropi and the only thing i haven't get working is Teensy.

Do you now any wiring diagram and how to config Retropi for Teensy so i can see what i am doing wrong?

suprjami

I'm pretty sure this is dictated by the Teensy itself.

What joystick/keyboard code are you running on it?

lycrake

Hey there, I've got exactly the same problem. I have had it working, but in my tinkering on my portable project its stopped working! JS0 is created, and does nothing and when I test js1 in jstest all my buttons work.

I'm using the default "Complete" code that came with the Teensy LC, and that has definitely worked before.

I've tried to add "export __joy2key_dev="/dev/input/js1" to autostart.sh and that hasn't made a difference!

Retropie automatically pulls up "Gamepad 1" and it won't let me set any of the buttons, can't skip it and the keyboard wont work (apart from F4 to quit)

Any ideas???

Finndersen

@suprjami
Just the standard Joystick library, e.g.
Joystick.button(x, on/off)
Joystick.X(0-1023)
Joystick.Y(0-1023)
Joystick.send_now() - manual mode

@lycrake
Good to know I'm not alone... I'm not sure what could of changed, maybe a RetroPie update? Can't tell who's at fault or where to fix it (Teensy vs RPi)

lycrake

Yeah no idea, I've tried a couple of different sets of code, one is code i've written, one is the default code. I've definitely had it working.

I basically started from a fresh installation, I boot up and it says 2 Gamepads detected, hold a button to configure. Retropie then detects most of the buttons when I press them, but then when I hold it to configure none of them work :-(

I'm running retropie 4.0

lycrake

Also, when you upload to your Teensy, do you use Serial / Keyboard / Mouse / Joystick, or just Keyboard / Mouse / Joystick?

Finndersen

@lycrake I would use a keyboard to do initial button setup, then you can use the keyboard to enter controller config menu again and then press a button connected to teensy and you should be able to configure it (ignoring js0)
I tried both options (with/without serial), I think it's the same thing in both cases
However I noticed that the joy.cpl tool on Windows doesn't work wether there's no serial option..

lycrake

So I do that, and then when I go back to configure the Teensy controller, it lets me select it by holding a button, and then it can't configure any more buttons, occasionally it will let me configure one other but then thats it! Super weird!

lycrake

And its usually only the 'up' button that it lets me configure, I can hold any button to get into it, but can then only configure the up button!

lycrake

I've made my own topic as it seems this is one of the two issues I'm having :-)

Thanks

Finndersen

@meleu said in USB Joypad (Teensy) appearing as 2 joysticks:

@Finndersen I don't know the reason of your device being detected as 2 joysticks. But there is a workaround to solve your joy2key issue:

Edit your /opt/retropie/configs/all/autostart.sh and put this line before the emulationstation command:
export __joy2key_dev="/dev/input/js1"

Hi, thanks for the tip, this works to enable the controller in Runcommand, but not Retropie Setup!

meleu

@Finndersen uhmm... yeah, I think know where the problem is... try to put this same line in your /home/pi/.bashrc. When I get home I'll try to find a solution for both situations.
[edit: the .bashrc doesn't solve this problem :( ]

Finndersen

@lycrake said in USB Joypad (Teensy) appearing as 2 joysticks:

Hey there, I've got exactly the same problem. I have had it working, but in my tinkering on my portable project its stopped working! JS0 is created, and does nothing and when I test js1 in jstest all my buttons work.

I'm using the default "Complete" code that came with the Teensy LC, and that has definitely worked before.

I've tried to add "export __joy2key_dev="/dev/input/js1" to autostart.sh and that hasn't made a difference!

Retropie automatically pulls up "Gamepad 1" and it won't let me set any of the buttons, can't skip it and the keyboard wont work (apart from F4 to quit)

Any ideas???

Hey so I've fixed the Teensy problem.
Update your Arduino and Teensyduino, then there's a new HID mode you can select, Flight Control Sim and Joystick, choose that and now there's only js0
You will need to reconfigure controller though

gunnarh

I did solve this, i did follow this https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=826901#p826901 and now it works.

Finndersen

@gunnarh
All I see there is explaining the way the buttons are wired up, that wouldn't affect how the Teensy acts as multiple joysticks

yaz

anyone found the solution to this problem ?????????? plz help

bthelm2

Has anybody found a solution to this problem yet? I'm facing the same situation. (Yes I know this topic is old)

bthelm2

Fixed my problem. Figured I'd post the resolution in the event that somebody else inevitably has the same issue. gunnarh's posted solution was right. It's not an issue of the multiple joysticks. It's actually the sketch. You need to use the bounce library, like was used in gunnarh's link. Without it, the buttons don't get recognized properly within retropie. I went as far as to edit the usb_desc.h for the teensyduino libary to only have it expose the joystick, and nothing more. That worked for only having a single joystick show up, but the button issue remained. It wasn't until I utilized the Bounce library, that my button presses behaved as I expected.