PI 3 + PS3 Bluetooth controller freeze fix. UPDATED

smoothmalik

ive literary tried every step in this thread and now my controller when i press to connect to BT connects and then the system freezes up right after ...Is there a legit clean way to get this thing working without a million different steps?

Rascas

@smoothmalik if you read the first post, you only need one step and it is to update and upgrade. It works for me so I cannot see why it wont work for others. I had already installed the package raspberrypi-sys-mods so check if you have that installed also.

smoothmalik

@Rascas I started with the first post and nothing worked so I kept going down the thread to other suggestions which lead to where i am now lol fucked...im prolly just gonna do another clean install and try this for like the 3rd time...

Rascas

@smoothmalik Besides the PS3 gamepad install, it is just 2 more commands, pretty easy ;)

opensourcefan

Attempting to downgrade and I get the following:

dpkg-deb: error: 'pi-bluetooth_0.1.0_armhf.deb' is not a debian format archive

What am I suppose to do with that...

BuZz

You didn't download it correctly I guess. But you don't need to downgrade - install raspberrypi-sys-mods

opensourcefan

I did double check the download but I'll try install aspberrypi-sys-mods and see what happens. What should happen?

EDIT: you meant install raspberrypi-sys-mods correct, with the 'r' in front?

opensourcefan

I confirmed my download and re-downloaded it a couple times, that didn't work. I took the deb off of another card that I had and it downgraded just fine.

I don't know what sys-mods is so I'll learn about it before trying it.

BuZz

I did - the R got lost somewhere :-) sudo apt-get install raspberrypi-sys-mods answer Y if it asks about overwriting a file

smoothmalik

@Rascas I'm goin to do a fresh install. after emulationstation loads what steps do I absolutely need to do and in what order?

Rascas

@smoothmalik You do only the 2 commands in the first post, after the "EDIT". Than install the PS3 commands, check the wiki if you dont know how. That is only it.

smoothmalik

@Rascas
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
sudo apt-get install raspberrypi-sys-mods

worked like a charm!!! THANKS

PokeEngineer

You can close this issue now...

I have updated the Bluetooth page on the wiki: https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/Setting-up-a-Bluetooth-controller

zupi

After applying all the aforementioned updates and even some recipes combining a mix of them, I still get freezes on psx games as soon as i disconnect the usb cable and go all the way wireless. The rest of the setup seem to work fine. :/