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    • Substring
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      so far, i have no idea on how to do that on Bluez4. Will have a look

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      • acris
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        An idea : try an another bluethoot 4.0 dongle.

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        • marchegiano
          marchegiano last edited by

          Howdy pals, I'm too green to understand the code you've posted, but I can tell you this. I tried my CTRLR just yesterday, and while I got nothing with it set to BT or PC modes when I set it to mouse mode the d-pad was picked up. Nothing else worked, and I wasn't asked to configure the controller, but the d-pad did work. I don't know if that helps you at all or if it's just a useless story but I figured it might so may as well share just in case.

          also, I dunno if they're different at all but my CTRLR is the one that comes bundled with the MOJO.

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          • elchhome
            elchhome last edited by

            mmh. In order to get even an emulated mouse function running the device has to be paired.
            I think the gamepad should be exactly the same as yours, but I tried all three modes and it doesn't pair.
            The home button keeps blinking read and blue and nothing is working although the GUI said "ok".

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            • marchegiano
              marchegiano last edited by

              I just tried it again. All I can tell you is exactly what I'm doing and what I'm experiencing. I have the dongle plugged in and the controller, in BT mode, on and searching before I turn on the pi. While recalbox is booting it connects, or at least stops blinking and stays blue, and after it's done booting when I slide the slider over to mouse and I can use the d-pad. At no point am I prompted to configure anything or pair anything. This time around I went ahead and tried to configure it. Nothing comes up under BT pairing and when I went to configure a controller and held down a direction on the d-pad it comes up as keyboard. I turned off the controller, and plugged it in through the micro usb port, I meant to unplug the dongle but I forgot, dunno if that matters or not. the home button went red, but I still got the same functions. on mouse mode the d-pad comes up as a keyboard. Nothing else works and nothing comes up under bluetooth.

              The only other thing I can say is I have kept my firmware up to date. if you have owned the controller for a few years without updating, updating the firmware might be why i'm getting a d-pad.

              Have you tried the moderator's suggestion? I've been trying to but I can't find any of my dongles.

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              • elchhome
                elchhome last edited by elchhome

                You're completely right. I tried anothe dongle and now I have exactly the same behavior as you described.
                The interesting thing is, that the additional buttons like fastforward/fastbackward/pause and the digital arrow keys are then received as keyboard strokes and not as gamepad buttons.

                btw. my controller firmware is on latest level v1.2.5 that can be downloaded from madcatz.com

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                • Substring
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                  Guyz, seems to me it's an android pad ONLY which means it may not trigger any joypad event. Very easy to find out : once paired (in that "mouse" mode or whatever), run evtest, select your pad, foold around with the buttons. If you only get some keys starting with KEY_, you're screwed because we don't handle keyboards. Well there might be a solution with the xarcade2jstick driver, but it's very restrictive on keys it handles (MAME keys in fact).

                  But if you get some BTN_ events, we could do something probably

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                  • elchhome
                    elchhome last edited by

                    evtest brings for me something like:

                    Event: time 1471421830.222857, -------------- SYN_REPORT ------------
                    Event: time 1471421839.037076, type 4 (EV_MSC), code 4 (MSC_SCAN), value 90008
                    Event: time 1471421839.037076, type 1 (EV_KEY), code 311 (BTN_TR), value 1
                    Event: time 1471421839.037076, -------------- SYN_REPORT ------------
                    Event: time 1471421839.222181, type 4 (EV_MSC), code 4 (MSC_SCAN), value 90008
                    Event: time 1471421839.222181, type 1 (EV_KEY), code 311 (BTN_TR), value 0
                    Event: time 1471421839.222181, -------------- SYN_REPORT ------------
                    Event: time 1471421839.747441, type 4 (EV_MSC), code 4 (MSC_SCAN), value 90007
                    Event: time 1471421839.747441, type 1 (EV_KEY), code 310 (BTN_TL), value 1
                    Event: time 1471421839.747441, -------------- SYN_REPORT ------------
                    Event: time 1471421839.935186, type 4 (EV_MSC), code 4 (MSC_SCAN), value 90007
                    Event: time 1471421839.935186, type 1 (EV_KEY), code 310 (BTN_TL), value 0
                    Event: time 1471421839.935186, -------------- SYN_REPORT ------------
                    Event: time 1471421841.059117, type 4 (EV_MSC), code 4 (MSC_SCAN), value 90008
                    Event: time 1471421841.059117, type 1 (EV_KEY), code 311 (BTN_TR), value 1
                    Event: time 1471421841.059117, -------------- SYN_REPORT ------------
                    Event: time 1471421841.184228, type 4 (EV_MSC), code 4 (MSC_SCAN), value 90008
                    Event: time 1471421841.184228, type 1 (EV_KEY), code 311 (BTN_TR), value 0
                    Event: time 1471421841.184228, -------------- SYN_REPORT ------------
                    Event: time 1471421850.286365, type 4 (EV_MSC), code 4 (MSC_SCAN), value 90001
                    Event: time 1471421850.286365, type 1 (EV_KEY), code 304 (BTN_SOUTH), value 1
                    Event: time 1471421850.286365, -------------- SYN_REPORT ------------
                    Event: time 1471421850.384091, type 4 (EV_MSC), code 4 (MSC_SCAN), value 90001
                    Event: time 1471421850.384091, type 1 (EV_KEY), code 304 (BTN_SOUTH), value 0
                    Event: time 1471421850.384091, -------------- SYN_REPORT ------------
                    Event: time 1471421851.221895, type 4 (EV_MSC), code 4 (MSC_SCAN), value 90002
                    Event: time 1471421851.221895, type 1 (EV_KEY), code 305 (BTN_EAST), value 1
                    Event: time 1471421851.221895, -------------- SYN_REPORT ------------
                    Event: time 1471421851.320732, type 4 (EV_MSC), code 4 (MSC_SCAN), value 90002
                    Event: time 1471421851.320732, type 1 (EV_KEY), code 305 (BTN_EAST), value 0
                    Event: time 1471421851.320732, -------------- SYN_REPORT ------------
                    

                    and the button names doesn't even change when changing between the three controller modes (android/mouse/windows)
                    So finally it comes down to a button name mapping issue

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                    • acris
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                      • Substring
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                        @elchhome so it's paired, sends joypad events. If there are also mouse events sticked to it, it won't be recognized as a joypad but as a mouse. Need a udev rule. We need you to run /recalbox/scripts/recalbox-support.sh with your pad paired and upload the file somewhere. With this, we will know if your pad is seen as a mouse/keyboard or pad, and make what's necessary to have it recognised as a pad

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                        • elchhome
                          elchhome last edited by

                          I hope you can download it:
                          h_t_t_p_s://drive.google.com/open?id=0BxMwQBosHAcbUUVWVkxoVkVnN2M

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                          • elchhome
                            elchhome last edited by

                            @subs
                            Did you download the file and do you already have an idea how to fix that?

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                              nope, didn't have the opportunity yet

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                              • elchhome
                                elchhome last edited by

                                @subs
                                is there a file where I can add the button mapping by hand?

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                                • Substring
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                                  @elchhome sorry dude, I was out for the weekend. Gonna check your file today and report back.

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                                  • Substring
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                                    @elchhome try those commands through SSH :

                                    mount -o remount, rw /
                                    echo 'SUBSYSTEM=="input", ATTRS{name}=="Mad Catz C.T.R.L.R", MODE="0666", ENV{ID_INPUT_JOYSTICK}="1"' >> /etc/udev/rules.d/99-joysticks-exotics.rules
                                    reboot && logout
                                    

                                    Your pad is, as I expected, considered as a mouse/keyboard. Those commands above will force the joystick bit, and it should then work. Can you confirm ? If yes, we'll add your pad to 4.1 so that it's automatically detected as a pad

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                                    • elchhome
                                      elchhome last edited by elchhome

                                      @subs
                                      Thanks a lot! This change makes the controller available to the system.
                                      Good work! 🙂

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                                      • Substring
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                                        @acris a reminder for you to include the udev rule in 4.1

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                                        • acris
                                          acris last edited by

                                          @subs it s done
                                          https://github.com/recalbox/recalbox-buildroot/pull/461/commits/a00f6c3a6c226a2bcd54044fd0e477c10c61e2e0

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                                          • Substring
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                                            @acris Nice !

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