GPIO buttons work, but directions do not

[Temporalin]

Hi!

First of all, I'm asking in place of a friend, because he is not as good with "deep technicalities" as I am, and he asked me for help.

He is trying to build a custom mini-arcade using a Raspberry Pi 2. He is using GPIO for input, following the default pinout for Recalbox.

The buttons work (he has set up 3 buttons only), but the directions do not. We have checked with a multimeter that the hardware works, and it does output signals when you push.

I ssh'd into the machine and tried modifying recalbox.conf to edit the mappings, to no avail.

I tried following the steps in https://recalbox.gitbook.io/documentation/tutorials/controllers/gpio/gpio-controls/gpio-joystick-driver-for-raspberry-pi, but I couldn't because the machine does not have sudo nor apt/apt-get

I couldn't test with jstest so I had to use "cat /dev/input/js0", which changed when you pushed buttons but still showed nothing when moving the stick.

How can we get it to work? The only thing I can guess is happening is that the voltage of the output is not enough, or something like that, but I can't find how should it be or if instead of digital output it has to be analog or what.

If more information is needed I can get it and post it.

[Zing]

@temporalin See if this helps:
https://forum.recalbox.com/topic/24422/no-sound-on-splash-screen-and-gpio-doubt

[Temporalin]

@zing I can't see the relation between that problem and ours. That person had a problem mapping buttons, so they were able to read signals from the hardware, and the problem was button related, not joystick. In our case we haven't even reached the point where we could read anything from the directional joystick.