Nothing in controlblockconfig

[dantropie]

i got it to work!!! FINALLY!
I basically started over from scratch. I installed a clean image of retropie on my sd card and redid the entire process. took an hour or so but it finally works!!!
some of the installation process went a bit differently, so perhaps i made a typo or something the first time around.

[petrockblog]

Glad to hear!

[m312]

Still nothing in sudo nano /etc/controlblockconfig.cfg

Tried a fresh install, followed the steps on http://blog.petrockblock.com/2014/12/29/controlblock-power-switch-and-io-for-the-raspberry-pi/

The step that doesn't work is:
13. Clone the ControlBlock driver repository: “git clone –recursive git://github.com/petrockblog/ControlBlockService2.git”.

It does clone if you use --recursive, I don't know if I'm going wrong here, or if there is something else wrong...?

Step 15: Build Makefile: mkdir build && cd build && cmake ..
Is that just a single line? copied and pasted as it is? This isn't on the video either, but make does not do anything without doing it

I notice theres similar comments on the YouTube video too of the config file being empty...

[m312]

controlblockconfig.cfg just doesn't exist :(

[petrockblog]

The config file should be located at /usr/local/etc/controlblockconfig.cfg now. The documentation at Github was updated already, the documentation on petrockblock.com was updated just now.

Does it exist at /usr/local/etc/controlblockconfig.cfg?

[m312]

Wahey! I've got something in the file!

I deleted the ControlBlockService2 folder and clones again with the github instructions (which is different to the petrockblog website):

git clone --recursive https://github.com/petrockblog/ControlBlockService2.git

[m312]

@petrockblog Whoops, sorry already tried updating from git hub

Think you need to update the petrockblog website so that step 13 says:

git clone --recursive https://github.com/petrockblog/ControlBlockService2.git

rather than

git clone –recursive git://github.com/petrockblog/ControlBlockService2.git

Thanks for the help, will be back if I still can't get it working, but at least the file exists now! :)

[m312]

It all works now! Whooooo!

[petrockblog]

Thanks for the hint - I updated the URL in the documentation.

[petrockblog]

And glad to hear it is working for you now!