Auto connect bluetooth controller

[Tsade]

Hello,

I am trying to connect my 8bitdo NES30 Pro bluetooth controller to retropie 3.6.
I have a Raspberry Pi 3, so I would like to use the built in bluetooth.
I followed the wiki to connect the controller.
It is paired, but it doesn’t connect automatically when restarting the raspberry.
Nevertheless I edited the udev rule as it is indicated.
Any idea?

[Tsade]

Hi there,

I tried on an clean retropie image, and still the same issue.
NES30 Pro controller paired an connected successful, but I can’t get it connected automatically after reboot.

Can I make a cron task or something to attempt connecting my controller everytime if not already connected?
That would be even better than connecting it at boot. I think.

[rion]

Bluetooth controller stops working after idle

sixad won't start at boot

[Tsade]

Thanks for the links rion, I tried with “hciconfig hci0 up piscan” but it didn’t work.

I managed to connect my controller at boot running this code from rc.local file:

bluetoothctl << EOF
power on
connect MACADRESS
exit
EOF

Maybe I will try to configure a cron task to run this script to keep trying to connect after boot.

[meneerjansen]

I configured a keyboard to test bluetoothctl and it reconnects at boot. See for instance this topic. Summary:

1. bluetootlctl
2. agent on
3. devices
4. pair 11:22:33:AA:BB:CC
5. Enter PIN
6. trust 11:22:33:AA:BB:CC
7. connect 11:22:33:AA:BB:CC

[Floob]

I’ve done this when using RetroPie 3.6

Wiki: https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/Setting-up-a-Bluetooth-controller

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