DualShock 3/4 testers needed

Headcrab

@psyke83
Ok, now it worked, thanks for the tip.

As for which driver is being used, i observed the following.

If i change xpad driver settings in /etc/modprobe.d/xpad.conf

triggers_to_buttons=0

It affects the way triggers are mapped with the ps3 controller. This happens either with usb connection or with the new BT pair mode.

So this leads me to believe that xpad is being used. I'm not experienced with linux though, so i might be mislead.

diogosperb78

Works beautifully. Connects faster and without the annoying rumble. I have paired with two PS3 controllers and they can both coexist in the system. Awesome!

xadox

I managed to switch vom ps3controller wrapper driver to the one by BlueZ.
It directly uses the already created ES autoconfig from the wrapper driver.

One thing I miss is the controller led's are not showing anything after connecting.
With the wrapper driver LED 1 was glowing permanently.

psyke83

The unlit led appears to be a driver bug that occurs only on first connect after boot. Unpairing and re-pairing the controller will show the LED correctly. It's still an issue on the latest firmware on stretch, too.

I'd prefer to use the BlueZ driver, but it has the unfortunate issue of not respecting the BlueZ IdleTimeout setting. I leave my Pi on constantly, so it's not useful to me in its current form.

xadox

Does the commit 99bdad7 change something to this connection mode? Or is it only for the ps3driver wrapper?

psyke83

@xadox

It should only affect the wrapper driver, mostly to improve compatibility with Raspbian stretch (which is not supported by RetroPie yet).

hhromic

Hello! First, thanks @psyke83 for the great work on the ps3/ps4 controllers support in RetroPie.

What is the current status of the driver/procedure for latest RetroPie 4.4 on Debian Stretch to use ps3/ps4 controllers? Are the instructions in https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/PS3-Controller still the preferred method at the moment to use these controllers?

Thanks!