@lhari84 Thanks for your answer.

Yes I did reboot, multiple times. I actually tried several things. I even tried different available firmwares for the N30 gamepad, even older ones, but no luck...

...Until I tried to pair the gamepad "the hard way", i.e. manually, in the Linux console during an SSH session.

Then it worked. For those interested, the process is described here : https://github.com/recalbox/recalbox-os/wiki/Connect-bluetooth-controller-manually-(EN)

simple-agent did not work (method 1), but bluetoothctl did (method 2).

I have no idea why it refuses to pair in the GUI. I tried so many times, and it never worked.

Now that my gamepad problems are sorted out, I can report a bit more on Recalbox usage.

Everything worked fine in the few included games (homebrews ?) I tested. The gamepad also works in Kodi, as does my TV remote through HDMI-CEC.

The only crashes I witnessed were in Kodi, and they were rare. I play movies from the network (via smb). They are stored on a NAS, with both the NAS and the Pi 3B+ connected to my router via ethernet. All the movies play fine, even those in 1080p, despite being read from the network. On one or two occasions, Kodi crashed and returned to EmulationStation. It seemed to happen exclusively when I tried to load a movie while another was already playing, as if Kodi/the Pi/the network (not sure which one of those) struggled. So now I prefer stopping the currently playing movie before trying to load another one.

Hope it helps.

@lhari84 Thanks for your answer.

Yes I did reboot, multiple times. I actually tried several things. I even tried different available firmwares for the N30 gamepad, even older ones, but no luck...

...Until I tried to pair the gamepad "the hard way", i.e. manually, in the Linux console during an SSH session.

Then it worked. For those interested, the process is described here : https://github.com/recalbox/recalbox-os/wiki/Connect-bluetooth-controller-manually-(EN)

simple-agent did not work (method 1), but bluetoothctl did (method 2).

I have no idea why it refuses to pair in the GUI. I tried so many times, and it never worked.

Hi,

I'm new to Recalbox and to RPi's. I just bought a RPi 3B+. So I figured I'd try to install Recalbox and test it.

I'm using the Christmas beta, and I have a 8bitdo N30 gamepad (not the Pro), with the latest firmware (4.1).

The gamepad works in wired mode, but in bluetooth, it just refuses to pair. It is detected, but I always get the message "Unable to pair" after that. I don't have a BT dongle, I'm using the internal BT on the Pi.

I tried starting the gamepad with Start, Start+R, Start+B, the result is always the same: detected in the list of BT devices, but attempting to pair it fails (quickly). I used the "forget controllers" option, I pressed Select for 3 seconds on the gamepad to forget previous pairing, nothing seems to work. For the record, the gamepad works in BT mode on Windows machines.

Any ideas ?

Other than that, Recalbox is really slick, boots quickly, the sound is working, and I played Classic Kong on the SNES without problems (with the wire). Everything else seems to work fine. So thanks for your work, devs .