[davidraid]

Alternatively, I’ve found that a user on the Recalbox forums named Allan Lindqvist has written a daemon that translates CEC inputs into keyboard strokes. Could this be added to the Retropie sd card images? This would mean that the remote would be detected as a keyboard in its own right and could be configured using Retropie’s existing gui and that Kodi would recognise the keyboard inputs automatically. It would sidestep the need for Kodi to use its own CEC implimentation entirely.

https://github.com/diablodiab/libcec-daemon

http://blog.recalbox.com/forums/topic/my-setup-and-perhaps-some-inspiration-for-new-recalbox-functionality/

This is an example video of it functioning on OpenElec

Perhaps the CEC input could register as a device in the same manner that Retropie saves configuration files for gamepads by name? And the experimental package could just have a keymap file included in it that registers those inputs.

[davidraid]

That does sound like an issue and I understand that Kodi 15 will eventually be used but there must be a way to have one’s cake and eat it. Is it possible to have libcec2 and libcec3 installed concurrently, so that Emulation Station can use the libcec2 library and then Kodi 15 use libcec3?

Or could this hdmi-cec compatible fork of Emulation Station be modified to work with the newer libcec3? Do you think it require a great deal of alteration and testing to make the fork compatible with libcec3?

At the very least, this would be useful to have in the 3.0 stable until Kodi 15 begins to be integrated into the future builds. :)

[davidraid]

A branch of emulationstation was forked in mid June by the github user CeRiAl that has native and working CEC support. Control of the menu through HDMI works perfectly and I assume this would give us the seamless movement from Emulationstation to Kodi and back that people want. Can Retropie use this branch or merge it’s additions? It would require the Retrpie-script to install the cec-utils package by default but little else would be needed to give that integration. As someone who uses a bluetooth gamepad, I would love to be able to boot the pi and begin watching a movie without having to wait for my gamepad to pair when I’m not going to be using it. :)

https://github.com/CeRiAl/EmulationStation

[davidraid]

Just installed the Pi2 image to an SD card and played around with it. Couple of strange new issues since beta 2 (haven’t tried beta 3) with controller setup for Xbox 360 Wired USB Controllers.

Not only is setting it up problematic (strange sticking issues on Left bottom buttons, when pressed it begins trying to skip it and it cannot be stopped. Tested on two usb Xbox controllers) but worst of all.. even with the d-pad set up, games no longer recognise it. Tested in a NES game, it’s no longer possible to move. A, B, Start etc all work fine, but neither the d-pad or configured analogue sticks will move.

While I love the idea of sharing the configure imput of the gui with the retroarch configs, it seems to have broken USB Xbox controller imput.

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