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    SHANWAN / PS3 CONTROLLER Pi3 RETROPIE 3.6 BLUETOOTH SETUP

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    • Wolfman100W
      Wolfman100
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      or anyone else?

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      • Wolfman100W
        Wolfman100
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        I'm not sure why this issue has arisen as it has not happened on previous installs.The variables that have changed are the build is on a single OS system (Just OSMC,not a Raspian/OSMC dual boot) and a lter version of RetroPie 4.0.I can't imagine that either of these have contributed to the issue however?

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        • luetzelL
          luetzel @Wolfman100
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          @Wolfman100
          Hi Wolfman,
          sorry for my delayed answer, but I do not receive email notifications from the forum. You are missing (again) some packages, which are required for compilation of the source code. In general: if you receive a message such as 'missing header(file).h' from ./configure or gcc compiler, simply do a 'sudo aptitude search <name>'. In case of 'readline', aptitude reveals a package named 'readline-dev'. Just install it and you are good to go.

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          • Wolfman100W
            Wolfman100
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            Hi @luetzel AKA The Master Of the Shanwan!

            No problem.Thanks for getting back to me.I'm kind of intigued as to why this time around that particular package is missing.

            I already went to:

            https://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/php/chet/readline/rltop.html

            And attempted to install that package but that then returned more errors so I stopped as I didn't have to install any of this before....

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            • Wolfman100W
              Wolfman100
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              Surely in my previous installions which were dual boot,there was no way that it would be seeing installed packages on another OS and using those is there?

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              • Wolfman100W
                Wolfman100
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                I have also tried:

                sudo apt-get install readline-dev

                and it is unable to locate package

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                • Wolfman100W
                  Wolfman100
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                  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
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                    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
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                      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
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                        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
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                            @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
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                              @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
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                                @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
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                                  @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
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                                    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
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                                      @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
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                                          @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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