[dotarj]

Sorry for the delayed response. I’ve had some other things on my mind lately…

I finally took the time to test the ControlBlock with the new ControlBlockService and it all seems to work now!

Thanks for the fix Florian!

[dotarj]

@NoFlo: I still didn’t get it working. I’ll try reinstalling and reconfiguring RetroPie and see if it works then.

[dotarj]

Hi Florian,

Any news on the SNES controller problem?

[dotarj]

I have rewired the controller ports and still get no response from the controllers.

[dotarj]

All pins seem to respond correctly (I have only tested it with I2C enabled). They all instantly turn on when I pull them to ground and off when released. I will rewire the SNES controller ports and test again using the controllers.

[dotarj]

I have uninstalled the SNESDev service, but still no response from the gamepads.

[dotarj]

Just to make sure the wiring is not the problem, I have rewired the controller ports using different (thicker) wires, but still no response from the gamepads. Is there another way to debug the GPIO input?

[dotarj]

This is the output of the 2 commands:

pi@retropie ~ $ service –status-all
[ – ] SNESDev
[ ? ] alsa-utils
[ – ] asplashscreen
[ ? ] binfmt-support
[ + ] bluetooth
[ – ] bootlogs
[ ? ] bootmisc.sh
[ ? ] checkfs.sh
[ ? ] checkroot-bootclean.sh
[ – ] checkroot.sh
[ – ] console-setup
[ + ] controlblockservice
[ + ] cron
[ + ] dbus
[ ? ] dphys-swapfile
[ ? ] fake-hwclock
[ – ] hostname.sh
[ ? ] hwclock.sh
[ + ] ifplugd
[ – ] kbd
[ – ] keyboard-setup
[ ? ] killprocs
[ ? ] kmod
[ – ] motd
[ ? ] mountall-bootclean.sh
[ ? ] mountall.sh
[ ? ] mountdevsubfs.sh
[ ? ] mountkernfs.sh
[ ? ] mountnfs-bootclean.sh
[ ? ] mountnfs.sh
[ ? ] mtab.sh
[ ? ] networking
[ + ] ntp
[ ? ] plymouth
[ ? ] plymouth-log
[ – ] procps
[ ? ] raspi-config
[ ? ] rc.local
[ – ] rmnologin
[ – ] rsync
[ + ] rsyslog
[ + ] samba
[ ? ] screen-cleanup
[ ? ] sendsigs
[ + ] ssh
[ – ] sudo
[ ? ] switch_cpu_governor
[ + ] triggerhappy
[ + ] udev
[ ? ] udev-mtab
[ ? ] umountfs
[ ? ] umountnfs.sh
[ ? ] umountroot
[ – ] urandom
[ – ] x11-common
pi@retropie ~ $ ls /dev/input
event0 event1 js0 js1 mice

[dotarj]

Some more information:

When EmulationStation is started, it shows a message “2 gamepads detected. Hold A button on your device to configure it.”. It always shows this message, even when no gamepads are connected. When there is a gamepad connected, pressing buttons does not start configuring the gamepad.

I just found out that when no gamepads are connected and I connect a gamepad when this message is displayed, it starts the configuration of the gamepad, but again no buttons respond.

[dotarj]

Hi Florian,

No problem. This is the output now:

pi@retropie ~ $ sudo i2cdetect -y 1
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 a b c d e f
00: — — — — — — — — — — — — —
10: — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — —
20: 20 — — — — — — 27 — — — — — — — —
30: — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — —
40: — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — —
50: — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — —
60: — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — —
70: — — — — — — — —

So the GPIO expanders are reconized correctly?

[dotarj]

Hi Florian,

This is the output of the commands:

pi@retropie ~ $ sudo i2cdetect -y 0
Error: Could not open file /dev/i2c-0' or/dev/i2c/0′: No such file or directo ry
pi@retropie ~ $ sudo i2cdetect -y 1
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 a b c d e f
00: 03 — — — — — — — — — — — —
10: — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — —
20: — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — —
30: — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — —
40: — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — —
50: — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — —
60: — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — —
70: — — — — — — — —

[dotarj]

and two more photo’s…

[dotarj]

Hi Florian,

Thanks for the quick reply! I have attached some photo’s. Unfortunately all wires are black, but take from me that it is properly wired (I’ve checked 4 times…). :)

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