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    SHANWAN / PS3 CONTROLLER Pi3 RETROPIE 3.6 BLUETOOTH SETUP

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    • Wolfman100W
      Wolfman100
      last edited by

      The really really weird thing is that somehow the Pi/OSMC is seeing the PS3 controller as I am currently watching the News streaming on OSMC and when I push the PS button on the PS3 controller after about 7 seconds it makes the stream temporarily freeze for a couple of seconds indicating that the pi is seeing it as this is repeatable every time I push the PS button!! V strange!

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      • Wolfman100W
        Wolfman100 @luetzel
        last edited by

        @luetzel ermmm...I'm confused.Is this what should happen when I apply the patch?

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        • Wolfman100W
          Wolfman100
          last edited by

          root@osmc:/# sudo service bluetooth status
          ● bluetooth.service - Bluetooth service
          Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/bluetooth.service; enabled)
          Drop-In: /etc/systemd/system/bluetooth.service.d
          └─local.conf
          Active: active (running) since Tue 2016-05-17 00:28:47 BST; 13h ago
          Docs: man:bluetoothd(8)
          Main PID: 2072 (bluetoothd)
          Status: "Running"
          CGroup: /system.slice/bluetooth.service
          └─2072 /usr/libexec/bluetooth/bluetoothd

          May 17 00:28:47 osmc bluetoothd[2072]: Bluetooth daemon 5.38
          May 17 00:28:47 osmc bluetoothd[2072]: Starting SDP server
          May 17 00:28:48 osmc bluetoothd[2072]: Bluetooth management interface 1.10 initialized
          May 17 00:37:56 osmc bluetoothd[2072]: Failed to obtain handles for "Service Changed" characteristic

          Warning: Unit file changed on disk, 'systemctl daemon-reload' recommended.

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          • luetzelL
            luetzel @Wolfman100
            last edited by

            @Wolfman100
            I think it is related to the connection attempts, it fails to pair and disconnects again. You should
            be able to follow this process with 'sudo bluetoothctl'. After a failed connection attempt you should
            see a 'disconnected' message for the controller.

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            • luetzelL
              luetzel @Wolfman100
              last edited by

              @Wolfman100
              Bluetooth daemon 5.38

              Version should be at 5.39 not 5.38! Did you forget to 'make install' or to reboot your Pi?

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              • Wolfman100W
                Wolfman100 @luetzel
                last edited by

                @luetzel no I definetly did 'make install' but haven't rebooted.

                Also,all the patches haven't been applied yet as I was awaiting your response as to whether this was correct:

                @Wolfman100 said in SHANWAN / PS3 CONTROLLER Pi3 RETROPIE 3.6 BLUETOOTH SETUP:

                When attempting to apply the patches I get this output:

                root@osmc:/bluez-5.39# patch -p1 < patches/bluez-01_add-obexd-policy.patch
                patch: **** Only garbage was found in the patch input.

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                • luetzelL
                  luetzel @Wolfman100
                  last edited by luetzel

                  @Wolfman100

                  @Wolfman100 said in SHANWAN / PS3 CONTROLLER Pi3 RETROPIE 3.6 BLUETOOTH SETUP:

                  @luetzel ermmm...I'm confused.Is this what should happen when I apply the patch

                  Sorry, the link that you provided was broken.

                  Awww, I see you did not download the patches in 'raw-mode'. Make sure that you don't have html tags in your files.

                  Press the 'Raw' button, before you download the patch files from github!

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                  • Wolfman100W
                    Wolfman100 @luetzel
                    last edited by

                    @luetzel OK will do now.Somethings definetly amiss now though as my Bluetooth option has dissapeared from within OSMC

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                    • Wolfman100W
                      Wolfman100
                      last edited by

                      @luetzel

                      I was downloading the patches by right-click 'save link address' and pasting it after wget

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                      • luetzelL
                        luetzel @Wolfman100
                        last edited by

                        @Wolfman100 said in SHANWAN / PS3 CONTROLLER Pi3 RETROPIE 3.6 BLUETOOTH SETUP:

                        @luetzel

                        I was downloading the patches by right-click 'save link address' and pasting it after wget

                        Ah ok, that's why it didn't work for you. Make sure that your link has a 'raw' in front, when downloading with wget:

                        https://raw.githubusercontent.com/luetzel/bluez/master/patch/bluez-01_add-obexd-policy.patch

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                        • Wolfman100W
                          Wolfman100 @luetzel
                          last edited by

                          @luetzel Thanks again.Will try again

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                          • Wolfman100W
                            Wolfman100 @luetzel
                            last edited by

                            @luetzel Shall I download from your github?

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                            • luetzelL
                              luetzel @Wolfman100
                              last edited by

                              @Wolfman100

                              @Wolfman100 said in SHANWAN / PS3 CONTROLLER Pi3 RETROPIE 3.6 BLUETOOTH SETUP:

                              @luetzel Shall I download from your github?

                              Well thats up to you, at least it would simplify the procedure to a:

                              git clone https://github.com/luetzel/bluez
                              cd bluez
                              ./configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var --enable-sixaxis
                              make -j3
                              sudo make install

                              Note, that you probably have to do 'sudo apt-get install git' first.

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                              • Wolfman100W
                                Wolfman100 @luetzel
                                last edited by

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

                                sudo make install

                                Ha..well that seems a lot easier!So I'm presuming this is with all the patches already applied?

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                                • Wolfman100W
                                  Wolfman100
                                  last edited by

                                  This is now what I get when I run sixpair:

                                  root@osmc:/# sudo sixpair
                                  Current Bluetooth master: ff:00:03:c6:9e:66
                                  Unable to retrieve local bd_addr from hcitool dev.
                                  Please enable Bluetooth or specify an address manually.

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                                  • luetzelL
                                    luetzel @Wolfman100
                                    last edited by

                                    @Wolfman100
                                    yes they are already included.

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                                    • Wolfman100W
                                      Wolfman100 @luetzel
                                      last edited by

                                      @luetzel This is what I get as my bluetooth service output,which now indicates the correct version 5.39:

                                      ● bluetooth.service - Bluetooth service
                                      Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/bluetooth.service; enabled)
                                      Drop-In: /etc/systemd/system/bluetooth.service.d
                                      └─local.conf
                                      Active: active (running) since Tue 2016-05-17 13:56:43 BST; 36min ago
                                      Docs: man:bluetoothd(8)
                                      Main PID: 629 (bluetoothd)
                                      Status: "Running"
                                      CGroup: /system.slice/bluetooth.service
                                      └─629 /usr/libexec/bluetooth/bluetoothd

                                      May 17 13:56:43 osmc bluetoothd[629]: Bluetooth daemon 5.39
                                      May 17 13:56:43 osmc bluetoothd[629]: Starting SDP server
                                      May 17 13:56:43 osmc bluetoothd[629]: Bluetooth management interface 1.10 i...ed

                                      Warning: Unit file changed on disk, 'systemctl daemon-reload' recommended.
                                      Hint: Some lines were ellipsized, use -l to sh
                                      w in full.

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                                      • luetzelL
                                        luetzel @Wolfman100
                                        last edited by luetzel

                                        @Wolfman100 said in SHANWAN / PS3 CONTROLLER Pi3 RETROPIE 3.6 BLUETOOTH SETUP:

                                        This is now what I get when I run sixpair:

                                        root@osmc:/# sudo sixpair
                                        Current Bluetooth master: ff:00:03:c6:9e:66
                                        Unable to retrieve local bd_addr from hcitool dev.
                                        Please enable Bluetooth or specify an address manually.

                                        When you tried sixpair before, it seemed to work:

                                        I have now installed QtSixA and have run Sixpair:
                                        root@osmc:/# sudo ./sixpair
                                        Current Bluetooth master: b8:27:eb:a1:9b:7f
                                        Setting master bd_addr to b8:27:eb:a1:9b:7f

                                        I don't understand what's going on ..

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                                        • Wolfman100W
                                          Wolfman100 @luetzel
                                          last edited by

                                          @luetzel

                                          ● bluetooth.service - Bluetooth service
                                          Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/bluetooth.service; enabled)
                                          Drop-In: /etc/systemd/system/bluetooth.service.d
                                          └─local.conf
                                          Active: inactive (dead)
                                          Docs: man:bluetoothd(8)

                                          Warning: Unit file changed on disk, 'systemctl daemon-reload' recommended.

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                                          • luetzelL
                                            luetzel @Wolfman100
                                            last edited by

                                            @Wolfman100

                                            @Wolfman100 said in SHANWAN / PS3 CONTROLLER Pi3 RETROPIE 3.6 BLUETOOTH SETUP:

                                            @luetzel

                                            ● bluetooth.service - Bluetooth service
                                            Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/bluetooth.service; enabled)
                                            Drop-In: /etc/systemd/system/bluetooth.service.d
                                            └─local.conf
                                            Active: inactive (dead)
                                            Docs: man:bluetoothd(8)

                                            Warning: Unit file changed on disk, 'systemctl daemon-reload' recommended.

                                            And why it is no running anymore? Try
                                            sudo systemctl daemon-reload
                                            sudo service bluetooth restart

                                            and lets see if it helps.

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