[hlashbrooke]

Regarding the issue of not being able to reconnect the controller after it switches off, something like this might fix that up: http://askubuntu.com/questions/53377/bluetooth-mouse-not-auto-reconnecting – I’m not at home right now (and that guide is for Ubuntu), but will check it out later as I’m sure something similar will work for RetroPie.

[hlashbrooke]

@grizzlema – I found the fix :) I had to go into raspi-config and resize the partition to use the entire SD card. Not quite sure why that worked, but it did. Enjoying all my roms now – thanks for the help!

[hlashbrooke]

Thanks for all of this grizzlema – everything seemed to work out properly, except for one problem – the controllers don’t seem to work in the actual games.

I’m testing with SNES roms because that’s currently all that I have and when I launch one of the games, it all starts up fine, but none of the controller buttons do anything, except for when I push the up arrow on the D-pad – when I do that it exits the game.

I followed your guide exactly, so not sure where the issue is coming in – can you offer any help there?

[hlashbrooke]

Thanks! :)

[hlashbrooke]

Thanks for this @grizzlema – looks pretty thorough and I’ll be trying it out later.

Once quick question (which might be obvious once I get there), but where you say this:

“For now I made a shell to reconnect player 2 controller and placed it into the ports folder”

Is that simply adding sudo bluez-test-input connect XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX to the script, putting it in the RetroPie/roms/ports folder and running chmod on it?

That sounds like what you’re saying, but just want to clarify :)

Thanks for sharing!

[hlashbrooke]

I seem to have bluez installed, but I cannot install bluez-utils. I get this message when I try to do so:

Package bluez-utils is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
However the following packages replace it:
  bluez

E: Package 'bluez-utils' has no installation candidate

So I don’t have the bluez-simple-agent utility or anything like that. I can, however, successfully use bluetoothctl to pair and connect with bluetooth devices with no problems.

So all of that means that I cannot access /usr/bin/bluez-simple-agent as it does not exist on my Pi and I cannot install it. I’m not sure if this has anything to do with the fact that I am running RetroPie alongside OSMC.

[hlashbrooke]

I have the same problem with the 8bitdo NES30 controllers and the same bluetooth dongle – I have 2 controllers, but just trying to get one connected first.

I have OSMC installed with RetroPie installed alongside it.

I cannot install bluez-utils – it tells me to use bluetoothctl instead, which works just fine to pair and connect with the controller, so there’s no problem there I don’t think.

But when I follow that same guide that you linked to I get this message after attempting to create the .cfg file from the RetroPie setup:

The configuration file has been saved as '/opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch-joypads/.cfg' and will be used by RetroArch from now on whenever that controller is connected.

It then creates the retroarch-joypads folder, but it is empty. I’m not sure what that means to be honest, so if you work this out then please share your solution here :)

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