retropie raspberry 3 emulation station with 2 ps3 controllers

[pemy]

Hi
Yesterday for the first time I tried to play few games (amiga and capcom) using 2 ps3 controllers via Bluetooth.
As soon as I turn on the second controller everything slow down a bit in emulation station and also in the games.
The controllers are not responding in real time, sometimes I need to press few times before the action is actuated.

Do you know why?
Do you guys have the same issue?
thanks
D

[retroprogrammer]

Maybe your Bluetooth connection through RaspberryPi 3 is bad you may need to buy a Bluetooth dongle or you should follow this PS3 controller documentation and that might fix things up

[PiBoy]

There are all sorts of Bluetooth controller issues with retropie on the pi3. One solution is to disable Wifi thereby freeing up the controller for bluetooth only. Usually that is a remedy for input lag, but it may help you here.

Personally, I just use my Mayflash PS3 adapter on the Pi, and I have zero issues with it, no lag or anything.

[pemy]

@piboy

Hi
How to turn off bluethooth on the retropie 3 with out removing the driver ?
I like to turn it off and use USB cable to connect my ps3 controllers

LONG STORY:
what is happening is that even if I connect my 2 controllers with USB cables, when emulation station is up and running I have to disconnect the cables and press the PS round button on ps3 controllers to turn them ON, and in doing that I think they are connecting via Bluetooth, after that when I connect the USB cable back I don't think that retropie 3 is using the USB cable to send the data. I still have the same lag issue.

By the way the lag is very strange:
it looks like one controller is working fine and the other one is having lag and sometime the input is getting stack to one direction ...for example on BUBBLE BUBBLE I turn left and the Little Character is going to the left for 3-4 seconds after I released the left trigger

Please help
Cheers
D

[mitu]

@pemy said in retropie raspberry 3 emulation station with 2 ps3 controllers:

How to turn off bluethooth on the retropie 3 with out removing the driver ?
I like to turn it off and use USB cable to connect my ps3 controllers

Remove any controller configuration and re-map them connected via USB - https://retropie.org.uk/docs/EmulationStation/#controller-configs

[pemy]

ok thanks
that is a bit painful I do have custom configurations for different emulator and games do I need to wipe them all and reconfigure.
Is there any settings inside these files that I can change to configure the controller as USB making sure Bluetooth doesn't interfere ?

Thanks again

[mitu]

@pemy Remove the Bluetooth paired devices from the RetroPie setup script and there shoudn't be any problems. You can probably keep you existing core/game specific configurations even after removing the ES configured devices, RetroArch should pick them up regardless of the connection used (USB vs. Bluetooth).

[pemy]

@mitu
great tip!
thanks
D

[pemy]

ok I found a solution.
If I use 2 ps3 DUALSHOCK3 controller (exactly the same model) everything works well.

:)
Dani