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    SHANWAN / PS3 CONTROLLER Pi3 RETROPIE 3.6 BLUETOOTH SETUP

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    • Wolfman100W
      Wolfman100
      last edited by

      I have also tried:

      sudo apt-get install readline-dev

      and it is unable to locate package

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      • Wolfman100W
        Wolfman100
        last edited by

        I managed to install the correct package which solved the issue with:

        sudo apt-get install libreadline-gplv2-dev

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        • Wolfman100W
          Wolfman100
          last edited by

          For some reason though the 'make' fails:

          osmc@osmc:~/qtsixa-1.4.96/utils$ ls
          bins hcid hidraw-dump.c Makefile sixad-jack.c sixpair.c sixpair_kbd.c
          osmc@osmc:~/qtsixa-1.4.96/utils$ nano Makefile
          osmc@osmc:~/qtsixa-1.4.96/utils$ make
          gcc -Wall -O2 hidraw-dump.c -o bins/hidraw-dump
          gcc -Wall -O2 sixad-jack.c -o bins/sixad-jack -ljack -lm
          sixad-jack.c:25:23: fatal error: jack/jack.h: No such file or directory
          #include <jack/jack.h>
          ^
          compilation terminated.
          Makefile:8: recipe for target 'tools' failed
          make: *** [tools] Error 1

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          • Wolfman100W
            Wolfman100
            last edited by

            I'm really really baffled why all these errors are appearing and why so many packages seem to not be installed as I had none of these issues on previous builds...

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            • Wolfman100W
              Wolfman100
              last edited by

              Managed to get all the missing packages installed and make QtoSixA,but now the Pi sees the controller,but only as a keyboard for some reason....

              [03-C6-9E-66-63-25]# info 03:C6:9E:66:63:25
              Device 03:C6:9E:66:63:25
              Alias: 03-C6-9E-66-63-25
              Class: 0x000540
              Icon: input-keyboard
              Paired: no
              Trusted: no
              Blocked: no
              Connected: yes
              LegacyPairing: no
              [CHG] Device 03:C6:9E:66:63:25 Connected: no
              [DEL] Device 03:C6:9E:66:63:25 03-C6-9E-66-63-25
              [bluetooth]#

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                dagosand
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                Hello!
                This is my first post, and my english is not so good.
                After 4 days and 4 nights of hard work spent to pair my ps3 controller shanwan clone and my raspberry pi 3 using the internal Bluetooth I filally say that I have win!!!!
                I have installed a microsd card with retropie 3.8.1 and updated and upgraded to last commits of 2016-06-19.
                I have followed the instructions provided by @luetzel (In this guide) with one more step to add after the Step3 and before the Step4.
                In this new step it is necessary to execute this command that creates a symbolic link called "/etc/firmware":

                sudo ln -s /lib/firmware/ /etc/firmware

                This command is necessary because in a bluez sources there is a file called:
                hciattach_bcm43xx.c
                located in the src/tools folder there is a reference to a path called "/etc/firmware", but this path does not exist in retropie distros.

                Before the creation of the symbolic link, after the execution of the Step4 of the guide, when I execute this command:
                sudo ./sixpair
                I have the same result obtained by user @pablo in this post and user @buddhastevend in this post:
                pi@retropie:~/QtSixA-1.5.1/utils/bins $ sudo ./sixpair
                Current Bluetooth master: aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:aa
                Setting master bd_addr to aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:aa

                After the creation of the symbolic link the pairing process works perfectly!
                pi@retropie:~/QtSixA-1.5.1/utils/bins $ sudo ./sixpair
                Current Bluetooth master: b8:27:eb:e5:2f:e1
                Setting master bd_addr to b8:27:eb:e5:2f:e1

                I hope this great news for me can be useful to other retropie and raspberry users.

                I had the idea to create the symbolic link reading this thread.

                Good night.

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                  trevevs @Wolfman100
                  last edited by

                  @Wolfman100
                  hey wolfman100 !
                  Very interested in your efforts to get shanwan PS3 clone going on retrosmc. Im trying to do the same thing. The tutorial is showing 404 error for me HTTP ERROR 404 - PAGE NOT FOUND!. https://luetzels.raspiblog.com/?p=1870 Have I got the right link?
                  Is this a full guide which works on OSMC?

                  thanks

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                    trevevs
                    last edited by

                    @trevevs
                    ahh looks like the guide s back up! Still not really able to follow on my OSMC with retrosmc install.
                    guessing I can skip to step 4 since I got git clone https://github.com/luetzel/bluez in step 3?
                    I did that and get the bluez folder/files in my osmc folder.

                    when you got bluez-5.39, do you mean the bluez folder I just got?

                    ./configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var --enable-sixaxis
                    seemed to do a lot of stuff ..

                    tried make -j3 but got:
                    : *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.

                    Probably something daft Im doing??

                    cheers

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                    • luetzelL
                      luetzel @trevevs
                      last edited by

                      @trevevs
                      Hi trevevs,
                      sorry that the link to my blog did not work for you! Hope that you are able to pair your PS3 clone now. My blog is on a self-hosted server, consisting of a Banana Pi. It connects via dyndns, so that it is occasionally not reachable when my IP changes.

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                      • luetzelL
                        luetzel @dagosand
                        last edited by

                        @dagosand
                        Hi Dagosand,
                        thank you for providing this information - indeed very helpful for fixing the pairing problems. I hope that the bluez patches will make it soon into the master branch of bluez, so that the PS3 controllers will work out-of-the-box.

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                          dagosand @luetzel
                          last edited by

                          Hi @luetzel thank you very much, but with your perfect guide you made the biggest work .
                          Who will inform bluez guys about the "/etc/firmware" folder issue?

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                          • Wolfman100W
                            Wolfman100 @trevevs
                            last edited by

                            @trevevs when you attempt to do the 'make' did you execute the command form inside the 'bins' folder,this is necessary.

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                            • Wolfman100W
                              Wolfman100 @dagosand
                              last edited by

                              @dagosand well done for sticking with it and being commited.I certainly know from experience how frustrating it can be!!

                              The symbolic link issue is interesting,been away from the Pi for a week but will look into this tonight.

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                              • luetzelL
                                luetzel @dagosand
                                last edited by

                                @dagosand
                                I don't think it is necessary to bother the bluez guys with this issue. It just due to the fact that /firmware is at a non-standard location in contrast to other distributions. Guess that it is already possible to pass a ./configure --flag for pointing bluez to the path of the /firmware directory.

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                                  Ransom @trevevs
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                                  @trevevs said in SHANWAN / PS3 CONTROLLER Pi3 RETROPIE 3.6 BLUETOOTH SETUP:

                                  @trevevs
                                  ahh looks like the guide s back up! Still not really able to follow on my OSMC with retrosmc install.
                                  guessing I can skip to step 4 since I got git clone https://github.com/luetzel/bluez in step 3?
                                  I did that and get the bluez folder/files in my osmc folder.

                                  when you got bluez-5.39, do you mean the bluez folder I just got?

                                  ./configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var --enable-sixaxis
                                  seemed to do a lot of stuff ..

                                  tried make -j3 but got:
                                  : *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.

                                  Probably something daft Im doing??

                                  cheers

                                  I'm stuck on the same spot. I skipped to step 4 after downloading the git clone, but I don't get a bluez-5.39 folder, just a "bluez" folder. Same results as @trevevs for the other parts. Configure does a few things, but make and compile say I have no targets specified.

                                  I'm pretty new to the pi scene, so I don't know how to move through folders and files within Raspbian, so a lot of the instructions from Step 5 on are pretty lost on me. Anyone get this to work?

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                                  • luetzelL
                                    luetzel @Ransom
                                    last edited by

                                    Hi @Ransom
                                    Sorry that the guide is not clear enough. Yes, you have to 'cd' into the bluez folder after cloning it from the git repo. And, ./configure, as well as make must be run while being within the bluez folder. If not sure, you can check your current working directory with 'pwd'. Thus:

                                    cd bluez
                                    ./configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var --enable-sixaxis
                                    make

                                    should do it on your machine. Remember that 'make' or 'configure' may fail, if some header files are missing. Watch out for 'foo.h is missing' messages and install the missing dev packages using 'sudo apt-get install <name>-dev'.

                                    I haven't had time to update the instructions with a list of all package-dependencies for compilation on a freshly installed system.

                                    /luetzel

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                                      dagosand @luetzel
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                                      @luetzel said in SHANWAN / PS3 CONTROLLER Pi3 RETROPIE 3.6 BLUETOOTH SETUP:

                                      @dagosand
                                      I don't think it is necessary to bother the bluez guys with this issue. It just due to the fact that /firmware is at a non-standard location in contrast to other distributions. Guess that it is already possible to pass a ./configure --flag for pointing bluez to the path of the /firmware directory.

                                      Great!
                                      Can you tell me how can I pass the correct flag in ./configure?

                                      thanks

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                                      • luetzelL
                                        luetzel @dagosand
                                        last edited by

                                        @dagosand
                                        I checked ./configure --help for suitable flags pointing it to the firmware directory, but it doesn't seem to be present^^ However, nothing speaks against using a symbolic link to /etc/firmware on distributions using a non standard firmware location. In some distributions, the link is automatically created by post-install scripts of the .deb or .rpm package. If you compile from source you have to do it manually.

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                                          auswear
                                          last edited by auswear

                                          I am really struggling getting this working.. I've think I've done all the above steps correctly as I can get one controller to pair, but I can't get 2 to pair at the same time. It's either one or the other. What am I doing wrong?

                                          Also is there any way to stop the controller from vibrating every time I plug it into the USB to charge?

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                                          • luetzelL
                                            luetzel @auswear
                                            last edited by

                                            Hi @auswear
                                            For the second controller, try to “register” it using sixpair, but without having the first controller already paired/connected via bluetooth. Then, check with ‘sudo bluetoohctl’ whether you can see hardware addresses of both controllers. For pairing the second controller, wait until LED 1 lights up on the first, only then press the PS button on your second controller. If this doesn’t help, remove both devices using bluetoothctl and start over again with sixpair. Both must be authenticated/trusted for pairing them at the same time. You can check/follow the pairing process with dmesg and bluetoothctl.

                                            About charging:
                                            It is not possible to charge Shanwan controllers without rumbling while being connected to an USB port of your Raspberry Pi/Computer. Here I use an USB wall charger instead. Since the LEDs do not indicate battery level of the controller, I
                                            use a ‘ USB charge doctor' in order to follow current/mA during charging. When mA drop below ~0.03, the battery is fully charged.

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