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