SNES controller

After breeezing through the LIRC stuff, I was ready for what would surely be the next trivial step, getting a SNES controller working in openelec.

......

WRONG

openelec does not offer any sort of controller support that isnt first dumped into the linux joystick system, and even then, the keymap from the joystick didnt seem to work all the time.

I tried various solutions and found 1 that almost worked

https://github.com/petrockblog/SNESDev-RPi

I identified what he was doing, and then modified it, heavily, he was using uinput and making a js dev, which I would then have to still use a keymap to pump into XBMC.

All the joystick stuff, gone.

Next I changed it to have all key presses simulate keyboard events instead, removed the multi-state single button support, removed config file reading, removed NES controlled support, removed 2nd controller support.

Compiled it on my laptop, shot it over and.....

it didnt work

flipped the clock and latch pins in code, recompiled... and success!

To the autostart.sh we need to add the following:

modprobe uinput

modprobe joydev

/storage/SNESDev &

I will put a link here soon to the compiled file

only took 30 mins start to finish, awesome!