Retropie on Freeplay CM3 - hotkeys?

[kkaminski]

Noob here. Just finished assembling my Freeplay CM3, and everything seems to be working perfectly, except for hotkeys. For example, I have configured the controller, and set the power button as the hotkey as recommended, but it's not working. I'm not able to exit out of a ROM and return to the menu... I can only shut down completely and then reboot. Any help would be much appreciated!

[Flavor]

How are you using the hotkey? What emulator are you using?

SOME emulators do not adhere to the libretro schemes. The libretro emulators are usually named with a "lr-" prefix.

You might want to hit START+SELECT in the emulator to see if that's the binding (which is common for the non-lr emulators).

Otherwise, our default scheme (hotkey toggle mode using the power button) would be to tap-release the power button and then tap the start button.

Can you SSH into the machine? If so, you can test the keys with the following command:
jstest /dev/input/js0

Also, you can post here with the output of this command:
cat /etc/modprobe.d/mk_arcade_joystick.conf

[kkaminski]

Tap-release on the power button followed by start worked perfectly. Thanks very much!