Matricom Bluetooth Gamepad

[substancev]

Hello Recalbox Community!

First and foremost, I hope all of you are staying safe and healthy.

Since being bunkered in, I decided to check out recalbox. I loaded an image to find out that my bluetooth controller doesn't really work well with it. I am able to sync the controller and evtest shows response to buttons. However, in ES I am unable to configure the controller.

From SSH I run /etc/init.d/S31emulationstation restart and when I press a button on the controller this is what I get:

# /etc/init.d/S31emulationstation stop
# /etc/init.d/S31emulationstation start
# lvl0: 	System "favorites" is missing name, path, extension, or command!
lo IP Address 127.0.0.1
eth0 IP Address 192.168.1.77
INFO: The key you just pressed is not recognized by SDL. To help get this fixed, please report this to the SDL mailing list <sdl@libsdl.org> EVDEV KeyCode 304 
INFO: The key you just pressed is not recognized by SDL. To help get this fixed, please report this to the SDL mailing list <sdl@libsdl.org> EVDEV KeyCode 304 
INFO: The key you just pressed is not recognized by SDL. To help get this fixed, please report this to the SDL mailing list <sdl@libsdl.org> EVDEV KeyCode 307 
INFO: The key you just pressed is not recognized by SDL. To help get this fixed, please report this to the SDL mailing list <sdl@libsdl.org> EVDEV KeyCode 307

Is there anything I can do to resolve this?

[substancev]

I have an RPi 3 b+.

Controller is Matricom G-Pad BX

Here is some additional information.

# hcitool con                   
Connections:
	> ACL 58:6A:FB:B4:7D:94 handle 12 state 1 lm MASTER AUTH ENCRYPT 
# hcitool name 58:6A:FB:B4:7D:94
Bluetooth Gamepad
#
# bluetoothctl
[NEW] Controller B8:27:EB:88:A6:2C BlueZ 5.39 [default]
[NEW] Device 58:6A:FB:B4:7D:94 Bluetooth Gamepad
[Bluetooth Gamepad]# info
Device 58:6A:FB:B4:7D:94
	Name: Bluetooth Gamepad
	Alias: Bluetooth Gamepad
	Class: 0x002540
	Icon: input-keyboard
	Paired: yes
	Trusted: yes
	Blocked: no
	Connected: yes
	LegacyPairing: no
	UUID: Serial Port               (00001101-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)
	UUID: Human Interface Device... (00001124-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)
	UUID: PnP Information           (00001200-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)
	Modalias: usb:v1949p0402d0021
[Bluetooth Gamepad]# 

[OyyoDams]

@substancev 17.12.02 is outdated. Please install latest version.

[substancev]

@OyyoDams This occurred with Dragonblaze image i used. I am

This is now running the latest img downloaded from your site and the above still applies

[substancev]

@substancev For Matricom G-Pad BX (Bluetooth).. I added the following line to ~/udev/rules.d/99-bluetooth.rules:

SUBSYSTEM=="input", ATTRS{name}=="Bluetooth Gamepad", MODE="0666", ENV{ID_INPUT_JOYSTICK}="1"

I got this line from a RetroPie setup. The menu system allows to add bluetooth devices to the udev rules. I copied this rule and added manually.

I guess the question now is: How do I know how to manually create this file?

I hope this helps anyone with a Matricom trying to use Recalbox.