@Scavy Ok, merci pour ton conseil

sur le site c'est disponible
https://upgrade.recalbox.com/latest/download-wizard/rpi5_64/recalbox-rpi5_64.img.xz

MAJ 9.2.1, rien ne change.

Welp, I don't know how I did it, but I managed to fix the issue. it really was the recalbox-user-config.txt. I made sure to delete all my userscripts, pasted in this code in the user config: dtoverlay=gpio-fan,gpiopin=14,temp=60000 and connected my resistor wire to the corresponding GPIO pin and now it works exactly how I want.

I started noticing the fan was actually starting and stopping while the box was on after moving everything to a new SD card. I don't think it was the card that fixed it as I copied everything in both the recalbox and share drives to the new image, overwriting everything with my configs. The only difference is I removed the bash and python scripts I was experimenting with in the userscripts folder. The user-config still had the previous line of code and actually started working.

I still had one problem as I was still using GPIO 3 instead of 14, and the fan would stay on if I quit recalbox through the menu instead of a hard power down by holding down the button. Switching to GPIO 14 like I originally wanted and updating the code to match the pin fixed this, thankfully. Now I have a properly functioning mini fan that came with the case.

Tl;Dr;

If you buy a Geekpi case for Raspberry Pi 5, buy a EZ fan2 for it with some extra wires. Install the 5v and ground wires into pins 4 and 6 like the Geekpi instructions say, and add your new resistor wire to pin 8 (GPIO 14).

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Set up your recalbox as recommended, doing the first time boot and setup so it creates the needed files.

Open up your recalbox-user-config.txt located in the root of the RECALBOX drive either on your computer or via a network.

Paste in dtoverlay=gpio-fan,gpiopin=14,temp=60000 in a free line.

#Add a comment line above the code like this to write down it's the fan control code if you'd like

reboot

And that should work. I will experiment to see if why it didn't work for me before might have been because I wrote 55000 for the temp and that was too low or not, but I'm satisfied with 60 degrees as a trigger.

I will also quickly mention that the EZ fan2 does fit in the rather compact case. Just tuck it under the board with the wires in an "S" shape.

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I still think it would be nice if there could be a GPIO fan control menu in emulationstation like Raspberry Pi OS has, but I managed to work around it.

Thanks for listening and hope this helps someone in the future.

Thank you. I'll try as soon as I have some time. But is this procedure to be done with Linux? because I'm on windows.

@Kaldrill recalbox 9.2 , i downloaded the 9.2 zip file, how do i merge the 9.2 files to 8.1 recalbox, i needed the arcade joystiks workin, cannot open the manager to change to 1 position for it, thnx G, can you?

Hi all,

same for me, I just tested RecalBox for the first time on an rpi5 and I am very amazed! Thank you 🙂

The only thing missing for me is also mamemess-current/ mame_libretro. Indentically, I now also have the libretro core in /usr/lib/libretro/mame_libretro.so, but I cannot figure out how to select it. I looked at a few ES config files, but so far no luck. @barleyguy could you point us to the right config file(s)?

@pol9520 Je pense que pour Dolphin, et donc la Gamecube et la Wii, le Rpi 5 sera trop juste.

Il vaut mieux partir sur du PC x86, comme un miniPC avec un Intel N100 ou supérieur.

C'est à peine plus cher, et plus puissant !