In the home menu, click on your Start button to open the main menu.

Exit the Retropie Setup menu and go back to the home menu.

You should get a success message like “Successfully registered and connected to ”.

Choose the first option for the security mode (“DisplayYesNo” for me).

Select the PS4 controller in the list (for me, it’s named “Wireless controller”).

After a few seconds, the Bluetooth wizard shows you all available devices.

The PS4 controller light starts to blink fast. Press and hold the “Share” and “PS” button.

Simultaneously, turn your PS4 controller into “Pairing” mode.

The wizard turns into “Searching” mode.

Click on “ Pair and Connect to Bluetooth Device“.

You should find a Bluetooth section in the next menu, click on it.

We’ll use the configuration tools to pair the PS4 controller: Once done, you can at least browse in the Retropie menus. When Retropie asks you for the controller configuration, use the keyboard.Ĭhoose a key for each action, and remember at least what you selected for the navigation arrows, the start button and the A button.

You need to have a keyboard plugged ( here is the one I use).Start with the Raspberry Pi turned off (it’s not mandatory, but it’s easier for me to explain).Anyway, if you don’t have a Sony USB stick currently, you can try this procedure and see what happens:

In the Retropie documentation, they are not sure why, but they say that recent controllers seems to not work in Bluetooth whereas the “old” ones works fine. On most Raspberry Pi models, you have a built-in Bluetooth card, so you don’t need anything else.īut you need to know that this will not work with all PlayStation 4 controllers. The last solution I have for you is to connect your PS4 controller to your Raspberry Pi using Bluetooth only, without any USB stick. If you prefer, you can try the last association method: regular Bluetooth (check the next paragraph for this).

Sony ps4 controller