evdev: making Dolphin recognise unplugged then replugged controllers

**leolam** · (This post was last modified: 06-12-2016, 01:15 AM by leolam.)

Is there a way to force Dolphin to recognise controllers that were unplugged then reconnected? I'm using Dolphin with xwiimote to play GC games, and currently, every time the Wiimote disconnects, I have to exit full screen mode, go to the Controller configuration and then click on "Refresh" for input to work again. This is of course not very practical.

**KHg8m3r** · 06-09-2016, 04:25 AM #2

Pressing the F5 button should reconnect them.

**leolam** · (This post was last modified: 06-09-2016, 07:07 AM by leolam.)

Thanks for your reply, but I believe that's actually used to reconnect an actual Wiimote, and it doesn't refresh controllers or work at all for GC games.

To clarify, I'm using a Wiimote + Classic Controller to emulate a GC controller and play GC games with it:

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This works quite well, but the problem is that when the Wii remote is disconnected, I can easily reconnect it to my PC, but Dolphin will not recognise its input and will still think it's disconnected, unless I exit fullscreen mode, go to the Controller settings and click on "Devices > Refresh".

Also, this happens in fact for any controller that you can disconnect, not just Wiimotes.

**Sonicadvance1** · 06-09-2016, 08:25 AM #4

Dolphin doesn't support hotplugging of controllers through the ControllerInterface except under Android. Someone needs to improve that. So the only way is to go through the whole Devices->Refresh dance.

**leolam** · (This post was last modified: 06-12-2016, 01:01 AM by leolam.)

I see -- in the end, that ended up being so annoying that I ended up adding hotplug support for evdev (PR #3890). If someone on Linux could try it and let me know if it works, that'd be great.

Thanks for pointing me to ControllerInterface -- I'm not familiar at all with Dolphin's codebase (nor with C++, for that matter).