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Raspberry Pi B inside a xBox 360 Shell. Power button/lights question?

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Hi

I currently have a raspberry pi B board with a self powered USB hub attached, running two USB hard drives plugged into it. i have it all sitting inside a xbox 360 shell and i was wondering if it is possible to wire up the 4 leds and power button(on the xbox RF module) to the gpio headers on my Pi, so I can push the button and it will turn on my pi and light up the LEDs.

 

I would also like to have everything power off one mains adapter, im guessing i needing to add a power board but which one?

Shutdown circuit (use your own switch) | Mausberry Circuits

https://www.modmypi.com/raspberry-pi-expansion-boards/nwazet-pi-power-supply

 

I hope someone can helpme out.

 

Thanks

 

Mike

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    You can probably power your RasPi from your hub as long as its external power supply has enough current left over after powering the two hard drives.  All you would need to do is connect a USB cable from one of your hub USB A ports to RasPi's Micro USB power jack.  This assumes that your hub does not have intelligent current control, otherwise it might only supply 100 mA until the device asks for more.  RasPi's power jack only connects +5V and GND, so it can't communicate over the USB data lines.  Usually hubs are dumb about this and just connect all the Vbus signals to a common +5V rail.

     

    I rather like that Mausberry circuit from its description -- I haven't tried it myself.  The circuit is more for turning power off than turning it on -- if you turn off RasPi power without issuing "shutdown" you can corrupt the file system.  The Mausberry circuit and its software should take care of this.

     

    Hope this helps!

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    I used to have the pi powered from the hub but I changed back to external power as the pi seemed to struggle. I want the hdd to turn off when I turn the pi off.

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    In a nutshell, yes it can sort of be done - when started it mimics the XBOX 360 power on and start sequences with spinning green leds, unfortunately it doesn't Light up the leds in accordance to which controllers are attached yet image something I'm currently working on, along with trying to add the command to shut off wireless controllers remotely and start safe shutdown of the RasPi using the original power button but I need some guidance with my code as I'm no programmer and just winging it hoping I'm heading the right direction, but it will give you the capability to sync controllers without using a Arduino. Which will hopefully set you off in the right direction.

    rf module wiring for raspberry pi

    You will need to install wiringPi onto your Raspberry Pi so the code I direct you too at the end will work you will additionally need xpad and/or xboxdrv installed too..

    Wiring the RF Module to the Pi:(please note my setup is for a Raspberry Pi 2 B and gpio pins used below may not match your model so please check to ensure the correct pins are used.

    RF pin 1: +3.3vdc connected to RasPi  physical pin 1: +3.3vdc.

    RF pin 2: USB D- (This and USB D+  need to be connected to a usb cable and plugged into your RasPi) connected to the white wire of usb cable.

    RF pin 3: USB D+(As above) connected to green wire of usb cable.

    RF pin 4: Ground connected to any ground pin on RasPi must create a common ground between them.

    RF pin 5: XBOX power button connected to RasPi physical pin 7(gpio7/bcm4/gpclk.0). This will be your new sync button.

    RF pin 6: FB1/Serial Data connected to RasPi physical pin 3(gpio8/bcm2/sda.1). sda.0 will be fine on older versions.

    RF pin 7: FB2/Serial Clock connected to RasPi physical pin 5(gpio9/bcm3/scl.1). scl.0 will also be fine.

    RF pin 8: Ground. as above

    RF pin 9: not used.


    Basically at this stage your Raspberry Pi and XBOX 360 Wireless controllers can already communicate with each other through the RF Module - that is if you remembered to install the drivers, and have a controller already synced, but what if you haven't or you need to sync another controller for say a 2 player game of Mario Kart on your favorite emulator, well this is where this little bit of programming I found comes in handy, All you need to do is go here: http://pastebin.com/AiAiWYdh download the .c file to your RasPi, Then all you have left to do is edit the file to suit your RasPi and compile with :" gcc -o RFSync AiAiWYdh.c -lwiringPi ", change RFSync to whatever you want to call it.

    when compiled you will need to give it root access by typing: " sudo chmod -w 777 /home/pi/RFSync " you probably want to change the path to suit your files location and maybe adjust the permissions a bit I'm new to Raspberry Pi and still don't understand everything I assume I have taken write privileges away but have still given it more than it actually needs to run correctly.

    Now I've not actually managed to get to this part myself so I cant explain how to do it yet but we need this to run at start-up but at the same time we need it to wait till xpad and/or xboxdrv have started because it needs them drivers to identify the RF Module as a wireless receiver. Good luck getting it going, Which I'm sure you wont have a problem with, if I can do it anyone can.

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    Hey Michael, great idea! I love using old consoles as a housing for new gear -- I have an Atari 2600 with a micro PC inside that I use as an emulator. Sometimes I risk causing a universe-destroying paradox by emulating Atari 2600 games on it image

     

    Keep us posted on how you're doing with the Xbox hack. Would love to see it in action.

     

    We've got a few issues of the new Raspberry Pi magazine that's full of great projects along these lines. If you add your postal address to your profile, I'd be happy to post you out a copy to help you get under the skin of the RPi a little quicker. Just make sure you come back here and give us an update on the Xbox Pi! image