Button Press Confi

[Pbsapeer]

Hi All,

I hope you're all keeping well.
Picked this project up after around 2 years of leaving it. Thankfully lots of soldering at work has meant i've got relatively good at it!

One thing i cant work out is why the buttons are not working. I've installed a fresh Retro Pi and unable to get the button register to work
"Hold a button for a few seconds" screen.

I'm only using up,down,left,right,a,b,start and select. I have wired them to pi as follows:

A = PIN 7
B = PIN 16
Start = PIN 24
Select = PIN 23
Right = PIN 21
Down = PIN 11
UP = PIN 19
LEFT = PIN 22
GRD = PIN 9

I havent wired the outer GRN contacts, but putting a wire to PIN 6 and GRD on this contacts doesnt seem to make a difference!

I've also got 3.5" gear best screen wired and the USB hub wired into it.

Any advice appreciated!

[infinitLoop]

have you installed retrogame? gpio buttons arent going to register as anything by default.

[Pbsapeer]

Doh! I knew it was going to be something I overlooked.
Thanks for the reply!

From what I can see I need to enable SSH to install it?
Is there anyway to install straight to the micro SD?

[infinitLoop]

Doh! I knew it was going to be something I overlooked.
Thanks for the reply!

From what I can see I need to enable SSH to install it?
Is there anyway to install straight to the micro SD?

Unfortunately not. You do need to be at a command prompt to run the install, with the pi connected to the internet. You’ll need to plug in a usb keyboard probably in order to set it up initially.


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[Pbsapeer]

Unfortunately not. You do need to be at a command prompt to run the install, with the pi connected to the internet. You’ll need to plug in a usb keyboard probably in order to set it up initially

Damn... Didn't realise that! Not to worry I will buy a USB OTG and connect to it that way.

Thanks for the help. Will have a go this weekend at it.

[Pbsapeer]

Just realised why the USB hub is a good idea.
I (wrongly) assumed I'd be able to sort all settings and configuration from the SD card - oops.
Now I've wired the usb headphone adapter straight to the pi as I thought "well I can add games straight to the SD card if I really need".

Time to solder that in like and then put a USB plug on there

[infinitLoop]

Just realised why the USB hub is a good idea.
I (wrongly) assumed I'd be able to sort all settings and configuration from the SD card - oops.
Now I've wired the usb headphone adapter straight to the pi as I thought "well I can add games straight to the SD card if I really need".

Time to solder that in like and then put a USB plug on there

There are ways to transfer roms and edit files directly on the sdcard or over ftp, but you can’t run install scripts or other commands without being at a cmd prompt. If you can at least get a keyboard hooked up to set up WiFi and ssh, then you can connect remotely from a pc to do just about anything.


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[Pbsapeer]

Just realised why the USB hub is a good idea.
I (wrongly) assumed I'd be able to sort all settings and configuration from the SD card - oops.
Now I've wired the usb headphone adapter straight to the pi as I thought "well I can add games straight to the SD card if I really need".

Time to solder that in like and then put a USB plug on there

There are ways to transfer roms and edit files directly on the sdcard or over ftp, but you can’t run install scripts or other commands without being at a cmd prompt. If you can at least get a keyboard hooked up to set up WiFi and ssh, then you can connect remotely from a pc to do just about anything.


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Sounds great thanks for the help!