@alvin
I use a raspberry pie 3 (B?)

Hello,

I updated to the newest release and at first I could play everything but the next day the controller (Shawan PS3) did not connect again and every emulator gives and error message that either the ROM or the BIOS is corrupted.

I did a clean install but the problem persists.
Any ideas?

regards,
heiner

I work in IT
(but not on linux)
But meanwhile I did some further tests with openELEC and there the DVD device seems to be recognized but the power supply seems to be too low because it lags and the display turns of and on etc.

Can anyone shed more light into this? How can I check if the "driver" is missing?

@Substring I am also not sure.
I was thinking about Kodi and DVD playback...

Hello,

I bought an external DVD Device and want to connect it per USB to my recalbox on raspberry pi 3.
It seems to be regognized (dmesg output):
[ 1133.157280] scsi host136: usb-storage 1-1.4:1.0
[ 1134.155843] scsi 136:0:0:0: CD-ROM Optiarc DVD RW AD-7700S 1.B0 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
[ 1134.160049] sr 136:0:0:0: [sr0] scsi3-mmc drive: 24x/24x writer dvd-ram cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
[ 1134.160680] sr 136:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0

But I cannot access its contents. (I cannot mount it etc.) It everytime tells me that there is no medium inserted (I tried several CDs and DVDs)

I think there are two possible error causes:

• the device gets not enough power from the usb ports on raspberry
• there is no (correct) driver for that DVD drive installed

How can I check which cause is correct? I tried to connect it to my WIN 7 box and it works (so the device is not broken). I noticed that on windows it "spins up" but on recalbox it does not spin at all. Does this mean that there is not enough power? I think it can also mean that the os is not controlling it properly

Can anyone help me?

I noticed it too. And I select blind any other game and exit this game and then everything was working.

Hello,

after some trouble with connecting my Shanwan clone per bluetooth I noticed some lagging and I wonder if it is possible to deactivate the bluetooth and use it as an USB controller with cable and no lagging.

Or are there any other gamepads similar but with no wireless support?

I FOUND MY PROBLEM
For one or another reason the ps3 controller support was set to 0 (!!!!)
I set it back to 1 and everything worked. I cant believe it....

this is in controllers.log
after first plug in
the controller is not rumbling:

Current Bluetooth master: 00:00:00:00:00:00 
Setting master bd_addr to 00:1a:7d:da:71:15 

if I plug out and plug in again it starts to rumble:

dmesg output:
https://thepb.in/p/qjhLgOpQp55cB

after second plugin the controllers.log looks like this:
https://thepb.in/p/lOhOWoBG0xmUB

new dmesg output:
https://thepb.in/p/BghPxVgOB5WIY

and out put to /var/messages:
https://thepb.in/p/qjhLgOpAm0WUB

these lines seems to be suspicious:

Sep  9 19:52:01 RECALBOX daemon.info bluetoothd[299]: Terminating 
Sep  9 19:52:01 RECALBOX daemon.info bluetoothd[299]: Stopping SDP server 
Sep  9 19:52:01 RECALBOX daemon.info bluetoothd[299]: Exit 

bluetoothd is terminating

hciconfig hci0

hci0: Type: BR/EDR Bus: USB
BD Address: 00:1A:7D:DA:71:15 ACL MTU: 310:10 SCO MTU: 64:8
UP RUNNING PSCAN
RX bytes:51027 acl:939 sco:0 events:1904 errors:0
TX bytes:24258 acl:940 sco:0 commands:367 errors:0

I found a thread where some people had similar problems and they seem to solve it with a patched version of bluez:
https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/42/shanwan-ps3-controller-pi3-retropie-3-6-bluetooth-setup/126

it seems that you need a forked version of bluez:
https://github.com/luetzel/bluez

more details on: https://luetzels.raspiblog.com/?p=1870

Maybe someone from the devs can fix the problem with this information?

this comes after that

[ 573.564112] input: ShanWan PS(R) Gaepad as /devices/platform/soc/3f980000.usb/usb1/1-1/1-1.3/1-1.3:1.0/0003:054C:0268.0007/input/input5 [ 573.565461] sony 0003:054C:0268.0007: input,hiddev0,hidraw1: USB HID v1.10 Joystick [ShanWan PS(R) Gaepad] on usb-3f980000.usb-1.3/input0
[ 573.565585] sony 0003:054C:0268.0007: can't set operational mode: step 1
[ 573.642813] sony: probe of 0003:054C:0268.0007 failed with error -32
[ 573.736600] usb 1-1.3: USB disconnect, device number 11

dmesg output:
29.493578] usb 1-1.3: Product: PS(R) Ga`epad
[ 29.493585] usb 1-1.3: Manufacturer: ShanWan
[ 30.068682] cfg80211: Calling CRDA to update world regulatory domain
[ 33.228691] cfg80211: Calling CRDA to update world regulatory domain
[ 36.388645] cfg80211: Calling CRDA to update world regulatory domain
[ 39.548665] cfg80211: Calling CRDA to update world regulatory domain
[ 42.708690] cfg80211: Calling CRDA to update world regulatory domain
[ 45.868660] cfg80211: Calling CRDA to update world regulatory domain
[ 49.028695] cfg80211: Exceeded CRDA call max attempts. Not calling CRDA
[ 102.889873] usb 1-1.3: USB disconnect, device number 6

Hello,

Now I have a BT Dongle from the compatibility list (CSL Nano) but still the same problem.

1. I start the PI until ES is fully loaded
2. I plug in my controller with USB
3. after some time it starts vibrating
   3a. if I now press the home button the blinking four LEDs turn to permanent two LEDs
   3b. If I plug it off first and then press the home button nothing happens.

Hello,

my BT dongle arrive but it does not work either

I bought a CSL BT 4.0 pico(!) - not nano. But BT seems to work because it does find several BT devices.
But my gamepad is not found. I asked in IRC and got the steps:

plug in BT dongle and start raspberry
after start plug gamepad per USB in and press home button
after some time (10 sec?) it should connect.

But although everything is heavily blinking there is no connection.
Any ideas how to get more information or how to solve this issue?

regards,
heiner

I changed the controller from "official" to "shanwan" but it does not help.
How can I disable sixad?

I tried SNES. (as far as I know there is no bios for snes, is there?) But also the preinstalled roms are not working (no other system)
the rom sets (smc files) work on zsnes on my computer)

Hello,

my raspberry pi 3 arrived today and I first wanted to build an emulator box with recal box.
I downloaded recalbox beta 5 and the installation was no problem.

But I have still some problems:

• no emulator is working. It looks like the game is starting but the emulator station comes back at once (for every emulator and every rom; seems to be a general problem.)
  ==> Do I have to make some configuration before everything is working?

• I have a Dualshock 3 clone (Shanwan) and I connected it with USB because the internal Bluetooth is still not working.
  ==> everything works great except that the controller is constantly vibration (very confusing :-). Can I disable this? Is the internal Bluetooth working soon or do I have to buy a bluetooth dongle? with one is compatible and the cheapest

Can someone help me? Although I am a first time recalbox user I should have no problem with complex configuration files or if needed a little programming but currently I found no logs where I can find some clue where to start...

regards,
heiner