How to Pair and Map 8Bitdo SF30 Pro Controller

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8Bitdo have brought joy to many retro-gaming enthusiasts with their SF30 Pro Bluetooth controller. It’s a fantastic piece of gear, and one of our favourite controllers to use with a RetroPie setup. We’ve covered off on our thoughts on the…

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Thanks for this guide. Just to clarify, what do you mean by “mode 1”. I see 4 possible modes on the label on the backside of the SF30 Pro Bluetooth controller:
Switch (start + Y), Dinput (start + B), Xinput (start + X) and macOS (start + A).
My setup is Pi4 with retropie 4.6. Controller firmware upgraded to 1.34 (latest from 8bitdo support).
Thanks

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Hey Angus,

Welcome to the Forum!

Essentially, this allows you to pair the device with a variety of operating systems and standards for Bluetooth communication. There’s a quick explanation on reddit that I’ve linked below, but you should be able to use it with the standard X+Start for ARM devices such as the Raspberry Pi running Linux. If there’s anything else that I can do for you please let me know.

Bryce
Core Electronics | Support

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Hello! Great walk through! I seem to have a different issue. I have 2 of the SN30 Pro contorollers. When I paired them via Bluetooth, I now have 2 player one controllers… The system will not differentiate between the two individual controllers.
So how do I get the configuration to create two SEPARATE controller profiles?
Both controllers are showing the same LED illuminated

Thanks!

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Hi Joseph,

That is interesting! Are you using these with RetroPie or similar?

If you get into the terminal (hit F4 and type bluetoothctl paired-devices what do you see? Could it be a MAC address conflict or something like that? Or perhaps just your OS not telling the controllers which is 1 or 2.

Does this behavior occur when connected via USB too? Or just bluetooth?

Keen to get to the bottom of this one!
-James