Finally did the cmdline.txt edit and nothing is different than before I made that change. The controller still shows up at 1 usb controller.

Looks like I’m in the same boat as krauthaus above. If you examine his solution, you see that he’s just using the Xin-Mo as one big USB controller with a lot of buttons. In his config file both players are using js0. This solution DOES work, but it doesn’t address the Xin-Mo being seen as one controller vs. two.

Any ideas?

####UPDATE#####

Solved this myself. I put a blank line instead of a single whitespace between the original content of the cmdline.txt file and the new additions. When I switched it to a single space the Xin-Mo shows up as two controllers now. Leaving this here in case anyone else has the same problem.

For anyone that’s interested…

I managed to have another go at this and I think I got it working.

1. Plug in a controller to any USB port and type this command:

udevadm info –query=property –name=/dev/input/js0

2. Move the controller to the other USB ports and run the command above.

3. The information returned from each USB port allows you to create a file named 20-custom.rules in /etc/udev/rules.d with the following contents:

# Lower Left USB Port
KERNEL==”js*”, KERNELS==”1-1.3″, NAME=”input/js0″
# Lower Right USB Port
KERNEL==”js*”, KERNELS==”1-1.5″, NAME=”input/js1″
# Upper Left USB Port
KERNEL==”js*”, KERNELS==”1-1.2″, NAME=”input/js2″
# Upper Right USB Port
KERNEL==”js*”, KERNELS==”1-1.4″, NAME=”input/js3″

This results in a control pad being connected to, for example, the upper left USB port to be assigned js2. It doesn’t differentiate between devices but using their model/serial/name rather than which USB port they are connected to should generate this behaviour.

Hope this is of help to someone!

Retro Pie 3.0
Rpi 2
2 official ps3 controllers
1 pluggable brand usb dongle

I can confirm this worked for me, but only if I used a video splash screen which took 30 seconds to complete. (the legend of retro splash screen) I tried using an image splash screen only once but I think they need some time to connect.

Transferring roms is also explained clearly on the aforementioned wiki page. If there is any confusion see the linked video on that wiki page.

You don’t have to delete everything rather you need to create a folder called retropie first on the usb and then plugging it into the pi will generate the needed folders. Then you’ll transfer your roms into their respective folders

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I’m afraid I don’t. You will need to either go through the motions in the Emulation Station ‘Joypad Setup’ script, or edit the es_input.cfg file manually. Please bare in mind that the es_input.cfg file requires keyboard characters to be entered in using their ‘key code’ (for want of a better term). What I mean is that it won’t accept for example ‘W’ ‘S’ ‘A’ ‘D’ as ‘up down left right’, you need to find the key code that corresponds to the ‘W A S D’ keys and enter them. Here is an example of my own es_input.cfg file but please don’t be tempted to copy this as it will not be what you need (I created it for a wireless air mouse / keyboard / remote combo):

  <inputConfig type="keyboard" deviceName="Keyboard">
    <input name="up" type="key" id="1073741906" value="1"/>
    <input name="right" type="key" id="1073741903" value="1"/>
    <input name="down" type="key" id="1073741905" value="1"/>
    <input name="left" type="key" id="1073741904" value="1"/>
    <input name="a" type="key" id="13" value="1"/>
    <input name="b" type="key" id="1073741925" value="1"/>
    <input name="start" type="key" id="1073741926" value="1"/>
  </inputConfig>

Those long strings of numbers are key codes that were interpreted by Linux from my remote. Yours will be different no doubt.

Honestly – your best bet is to plug in the keyboard and set them up through the GUI. That way the settings should be carried through into Retroarch too for the libretro emulators, preventing you having to set those up manually too.

Good luck!
Smithers

[/quote]

Hi,
This is the keyboard I was talking about LotFancy® Mini 2.4GHz Black Wireless Keyboard with Touchpad for PC, Pad, Andriod TV Box, Google TV Box, Xbox360, PS3 & HTPC IPTV and I have this one: Rii Mini i6 Wireless USB Keyboard + Trackpad + Universal IR Remote Controller (Black).

[quote=106042]

Hi.

You could do this, however I can only imagine it would be very poor to use as a controller! I have a similar keyboard so I think I see hwere you’re going with this, and it should be possible, but in practice I think you’ll find it won’t be suitable.

I would strongly recommend a real pad instead!

All the best.
Steve

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Thanks for the reply.
Yeah they intend to get one but for now they will be using the keyboard.
Do you have a config ex. A, B, L etc that I can copy/duplicate manually??

As for the Raspbian seems that most just wants the
1) file manager/usb access
2) Media Player to play videos etc eg. vlc player
3) Web Browser eg. IceWeasel/Epiphany browser/Chromium/ which ever is best
4) LibreOffice – it is also made to be use in raspbian. Don’t know of any alternatives but .

The size seems up to 3GB – 4GB to accommodate the software since it seems it will pick up a little space.
And my pick of the kodi build will be the beast but I can possibly install it myself.

Great work thanks.

is your USB drive set to FAT32? if it, permissions won’t work that way – you have to set the permissions at the point that it’s mounted: http://superuser.com/questions/617777/how-do-i-auto-mount-a-usb-drive-that-all-users-can-write-to

How did you edit the retroarch.cfg files? What did you add in?

I moved all the games to a USB drive also. The games won’t save, and the emulators say they can’t save the sateto /media/usb0/roms/{etc}. I’ve tried having the user and group of “pi” take ownership of the roms folder, but it won’t change from root.

So I tried my 3A micro usb charger with the USB version of the shutdown circuit and still get a low power indication.

[quote=105951]
So in regards the triple boot – I have some questions about it:

1) How much space would be reasonable to allocate to Raspbian? If the intention is only to use it as a web surfing, file editing, proof of concept type thing then I would say maybe only up to 2GB? I guess what Im ultimately asking is – what are you going to use Raspbian to do? Maybe then I can use my own judgement.

2) Handling the OS switching – so its self explanatory with RetroPie and KODI (have a dedicated home page menu for both), however in Raspbian, I can only think about placing shortcuts on the desktop which will run my scripts. This gives the potential of the shortcuts being deleted of course, so I wonder if there is another way that I am maybe not thinking of?? Anyone have any thoughts? I can probably implement them into the start menu, so theres one option.

Please let me know what you think and I will take it from there.

All the best.
Steve

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Hi Smithers The Great lol,

I believe 2 GB should be enough, Web surfing and maybe file editing/creating is mainly what will be done. So just really a good web browser, access to usb storage, media player and LibreOffice are just my main interest really with it.

As for the desktop shortcuts there is indeed the risk of it being deleted so getting it in the menu bar would be better but both can be done.
And or also as “haris1977” said about when rebooting if you can get it to boot directly into kodi.

Have you taken taken a look at raspex OS (http://raspex.exton.se/)??
If yes, what do you think about it??

I already have the beast version up and running and its great and I added the license for MPEG-2 and VC-1.
I’m using a 32GB EVO 48 MB/s UHS-I
What advance settings do you have for kodi buffering/cache on the build or what would you recommend for Ethernet and WiFi, (no cache or cache-amount)

Thanks again for all that you are doing for us. I can’t seem to thank you enough and I’m sure I would not be able to haha.

I would think you could do this with a script that detects the receiver has been plugged in (maybe polls lsusb?) and then in turn swaps (i.e. renames) controller config files (and maybe does the reverse upon disconnect).

I’m not enough of a linux guru to give you all the commands you’d need, but I know this is doable. There are probably more elegant ways of doing this than constantly polling something (memory, CPU use), but unfortunately I have to defer to the real experts that know how. Perhaps you could add it to the Emulation Station menu the way kodi has been added and just run it manually when you need to switch. Not as automated, but much easier, I’m sure.

Edit: Here’s a copy-paste for you:

This explains how you could run a script made by you (say /usr/local/my_script) when you plug a specific USB device.

1. First run lsusb to identify your device. Example:
$lsusb
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 040a:0576 Kodak Co.
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

2. After doing this you know that
– the vendor ID of your device is 040a
– the product ID of your device is 0576

3. Now is time to create your UDEV rule:

sudo nano /etc/udev/rules.d/85-my_rule.rules

4. And add the text

ACTION==”add”, SUBSYSTEM==”usb_device”, SYSFS{idVendor}==”040a”, SYSFS{idProduct}==”0576″, RUN+=”/usr/local/my_script”

Explanation:
When the usb_device product identified as 0576 of vendor 040a is added, run /usr/local/my_script
Note that ‘==’ and “!=” are comparators, while = and += are assingments

^ That will probably work, I would think.

I have just recently recieved the mausberry circuit myself, but have not yet used it so I’m just assuming here. You need to install the script, it’s what sends the shut down commands to the os. Also note that GPIO 23 and 24 are not pin 23 and 24, that seems to be a common mistake as well.

That’s good news! :)

We are keeping our fingers crossed for the next versions..

Another question that came to my mind: Is there any way to only update the retropie image – when a new update of yours is going to be released?
I have setup my openelec build as i want – and it was a pain in the ass (as i had to manually add some favorites etc). So i dont want to re-install both images from the beggining.I am using the usb installation method though..