SHANWAN / PS3 CONTROLLER Pi3 RETROPIE 3.6 BLUETOOTH SETUP

Wolfman100

1 Step closer...now to open RetroPie....I suspect imminent failure!

Wolfman100

OH MY LORD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SUCCESS!!!!!!!!

My PS3 controller is paired.....it had no trouble configuring as an input in RetroPie and it looks like it's good to go!

My Bluetooth keyboard also seems to be functioning as it should.

luetzel

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

OH MY LORD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SUCCESS!!!!!!!!

My PS3 controller is paired.....it had no trouble configuring as an input in RetroPie and it looks like it's good to go!

My Bluetooth keyboard also seems to be functioning as it should.

Wow, cool! Congratulations. Did you switch to Raspbian now?
Package: pi-bluetooth
New: yes
State: not installed
Version: 0.1.1
Priority: optional
Section: misc
Maintainer: Serge Schneider serge@raspberrypi.org
Architecture: armhf
Uncompressed Size: 42.0 k
Depends: init-system-helpers (>= 1.18~), bluez, bluez-firmware
Description: Raspberry Pi 3 bluetooth
--->>>>> Loads BCM43430A1 firmware on boot <<<<<<-----
Homepage: https://github.com/RPi-Distro/rpi-bluetooth

Obviously, the firmware wasn't present to start your BT (hci0 device).

Wolfman100

No...I'm still in OSMC....got RetroPie running in OSMC and happily playing Donkey Kong Country WIRELESSLY without a constantly vibrating controller I might add!! AMAZING!!

I'm not sure how the firmware dissapeared though,as it was working earlier when we were attempting to pair etc...very strange.

I'm going to try and replicate and then write a very clear and simple guide for completely unskilled bozo's such as myself!

Thankyou SO MUCH for your time and effort on this,it really is appreciated...A LOT.I can now happily confirm that it is now possible to pair a Shanwan PS3 controller with a Pi3's onboard Bluetooth running RetroPie inside OSMC!!! BOOOOOOM!!

luetzel

@Wolfman100
You're welcome! Glad to see that it works!

Wolfman100

@luetzel

Just one other thing....how do you go about charging your shanwan controller?As when it is plugged in it just constantly rumbles...

luetzel

I have a 1000mA USB wall-charger and an USB-charge doctor. It does not rumble with the wall charger, but the lights do not turn OFF when it is completely charged. With the charge doctor one can see when the mA drop down to 0.01 mA at the end of the charging process. You can buy a charger doctor at the a***zon marketplace for about 2-3 bucks.

Wolfman100

@luetzel Good stuff.

Although,now after a reboot nothing will pair again!.......

Wolfman100

There seems to be an issue with the Bluetooth package,as once again the bluetooth device has dissapeared and the package won't load:

root@osmc:/# sudo dpkg -i pi-bluetooth_0.1.0_armhf.deb

(Reading database ... 51677 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack pi-bluetooth_0.1.0_armhf.deb ...
Unpacking pi-bluetooth (0.1.0) over (0.1.0) ...
Setting up pi-bluetooth (0.1.0) ...
Job for hciuart.service failed. See 'systemctl status hciuart.service' and 'journalctl -xn' for details.
root@osmc:/#

luetzel

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

There seems to be an issue with the Bluetooth package,as once again the bluetooth device has dissapeared and the package won't load:

root@osmc:/# sudo dpkg -i pi-bluetooth_0.1.0_armhf.deb

(Reading database ... 51677 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack pi-bluetooth_0.1.0_armhf.deb ...
Unpacking pi-bluetooth (0.1.0) over (0.1.0) ...
Setting up pi-bluetooth (0.1.0) ...
Job for hciuart.service failed. See 'systemctl status hciuart.service' and 'journalctl -xn' for details.
root@osmc:/#

On my Pi3/OSMC I cannot replicate this behavior. It pairs after reboot without problems. It must be related to your
OSMC/ kernel release. Here I'm using the latest 2016.05-1 disk image with all updates (apt-get update/dist-upgrade) applied.

Also no problems on Pi2/Raspbian. Here I use an old disk image ?2015? but this one was also upgraded to the latest
release.

You should try it on a fresh install/disk image as soon as your new SD-card arrives

Wolfman100

@luetzel Good point.I'm going to try with a new image with the latest Kernal on a spare card.Really weird issue though right?I've now tried everything and simply cannot get Bluetooth running at-all!Kind of crazy to go from getting the thing pairing perfectly to being worse off than I started with no bluetooth....oh well,welcome to the world of open-source I guess...ho hum!

luetzel

@Wolfman100 said in [SHANWAN / PS3 CONTROLLER Pi3 RETROPIE 3.6 BLUETOOTH SETUP](/topic/42/shanwan-

....oh well,welcome to the world of open-source I guess...ho hum!
I wouldn't blame 'open-source' in general. At least you can fix this kind of problems by having some programming skills.

With proprietary software you have to hang on until an update is released. And for some Problems it never happens.
I have an impressive collection of abandoned hardware because of that ...

Serum

Hello Wolfman,

I read everything but I am afraid, I don't have any idea or experience on this things.
If it works with you, can tell me which command line I have to write to use a ShanWan ps3 controller please ?

Thank you.

luetzel

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

Hello Wolfman,

I read everything but I am afraid, I don't have any idea or experience on this things.
If it works with you, can tell me which command line I have to write to use a ShanWan ps3 controller please ?

Thank you.

Here you can find a tutorial how to pair PS3 Shanwan controllers.
http://luetzels.raspiblog.com/?p=1870

Cheers,
/luetzel

Wolfman100

@Serum HI Serum,unfortuatly I cannot offer much support as I am shortly jumping on an aeroplane and will be away for a week.I do however intend to write an in-depth description for novices upon my return.

In the meanwhile you can follow the gentleman that is @luetzel tutorial.

Can't believe this thread is 100 posts deep!

I wish you the best of luck.

pablo

Hi guys... I was hoping to chime in here.

I have been trying to pair my bluetooth PS3 controllers with the internal bluetooth on my RPi3 with absolutely no success thus far. They work 100% wired though.

I am using a fresh image of RetroPie 3.7 updated to the latest kernel. The only other changes I have made are as described in this thread by luetzel.

I have two generic controllers that display the following dmesg:

[ 1273.468135] usb 1-1.2: USB disconnect, device number 5
[ 1276.266715] usb 1-1.2: new full-speed USB device number 6 using dwc_otg
[ 1276.369693] usb 1-1.2: New USB device found, idVendor=054c, idProduct=0268
[ 1276.369713] usb 1-1.2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0
[ 1276.369727] usb 1-1.2: Product: PLAYSTATION(R)3 Controller
[ 1276.369739] usb 1-1.2: Manufacturer: Sony
[ 1276.377310] input: Sony PLAYSTATION(R)3 Controller as /devices/platform/soc/3f980000.usb/usb1/1-1/1-1.2/1-1.2:1.0/0003:054C:0268.0003/input/input2
[ 1276.378252] sony 0003:054C:0268.0003: input,hiddev0,hidraw0: USB HID v1.11 Joystick [Sony PLAYSTATION(R)3 Controller] on usb-3f980000.usb-1.2/input0

They seem to show up as a genuine controller would, but I have had no success with the standard way of pairing using the setup script.

I followed leutzel's steps right through - Installed the patched bluez, installed sixpair using the method described, however when I run sixpair, I get the following which seems to be a bit wonky as it's only showing up with 'aa':

Current Bluetooth master: aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:aa
Setting master bd_addr to aa:aa:aa:aa:aa:aa

In bluetoothctl, I can definitely see all nearby bluetooth devices. However, I get the following when trying to pair:

pi@retropie:~ $ sudo bluetoothctl
[NEW] Controller AA:AA:AA:AA:AA:AA retropie [default]
[NEW] Device 00:18:01:CA:EB:E8 PLAYSTATION(R)3 Controller
[bluetooth]# info 00:18:01:CA:EB:E8
Device 00:18:01:CA:EB:E8
Name: PLAYSTATION(R)3 Controller
Alias: PLAYSTATION(R)3 Controller
Paired: no
Trusted: yes
Blocked: no
Connected: no
LegacyPairing: no
UUID: Human Interface Device... (00001124-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)
Modalias: usb:v054Cp0268d0000
[bluetooth]# pair 00:18:01:CA:EB:E8
Attempting to pair with 00:18:01:CA:EB:E8
Failed to pair: org.bluez.Error.ConnectionAttemptFailed

Any ideas? I feel as though I'm probably just missing something. Any help will be greatly appreciated!

luetzel

@pablo
Hi Pablo,
your controller looks like a "genuine" SONY controller, is that correct? IMHO it shouldn't be necessary to patch bluez for a genuine controller.

However, the output of sixpair looks suspicious to me. Did you run it as root (sudo ./sixpair)?

Did you read the posts about the broken internal bluetooth support on Pi3 in this forum?

When you press the PS button on your controller, does bluetoothctl (at least temporarily) show a "Connected: yes"? for the
PLAYSTATION(R)3 Controller?

pablo

Hi @luetzel ... It's most definitely a generic clone of some description, but it gets picked up everywhere that I can see as if it's a genuine controller.

The reason why I've been trying this route is because I've had absolutely no luck whatsoever with the mainstream method as implimented in RetroPie by default.

I definitely did run it as root, yes.

I will do a bit of experimenting when I'm home later just to be 100% sure about the connection, but it's never been able to connect at all from what I've been able to get out of the terminal. No rumble. Just red flashing lights until it times out.

My understanding is that the bluetooth, although buggy, should at least be able to establish the connection. Many people have noted here (https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/issues/1360) that they have had success with the latest kernel.

Is there any other sort of message dump I could do to try and troubleshoot this?

luetzel

@pablo
Hi Pablo,
so far I haven't had any problems with Pi3 and the onboard bluetooth. As discussed above in this thread with Wolfman100, I was able to pair my PS3 clone on a Pi3/OSMC, on a desktop PC/openSuSE as well as Raspbian/Pi2 with a cheap 0.7 USD USB bluetooth dongle.
You're looking at essentially the same message dumps as I did. Again here is the output of 'dmesg', after plugging the controller via USB:

[ 98.814041] usb 1-1.2: new full-speed USB device number 7 using dwc_otg
[ 98.920401] usb 1-1.2: New USB device found, idVendor=054c, idProduct=0268
[ 98.920430] usb 1-1.2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0
[ 98.920447] usb 1-1.2: Product: PS(R) Gaepad [ 98.920462] usb 1-1.2: Manufacturer: ShanWan [ 109.085647] input: ShanWan PS(R) Gaepad as /devices/platform/soc/3f980000.usb/usb1/1-1/1-1.2/1-1.2:1.0/0003:054C:0268.0002/input/input1
[ 109.091110] sony 0003:054C:0268.0002: input,hiddev0,hidraw1: USB HID v1.10 Joystick [ShanWan PS(R) Ga`epad] on usb-3f980000.usb-1.2/input0

It shows the same vendor/Product id as your controller. Here is the output of sixpair:

sudo sixpair
Current Bluetooth master: 00:1b:10:00:2a:ec
Setting master bd_addr to 00:1b:10:00:2a:ec

I noticed that it may take some time until the controller is recognized. If it doesn't work immediately, wait for a minute
and run sudo sixpair again. You should be able to see a real HW address instead of AA:AA:AA:AA:AA:AA.

If it doesn't help, check with bluetoothctl what happens when you press the PS button on the controller. While its
LEDs are flashing, you should see a "Connected" message and the prompt changes to '[PLAYSTATION(R)3 Controller]#'
When I tried '[PLAYSTATION(R)3 Controller]# pair 01:B6:AD:7F:63:25', I was asked for a passkey for authentication, but one cannot enter a passcode with the controller - that's why sixpair is required.

sudo bluetoothctl
[NEW] Controller 00:1B:10:00:2A:EC raspi5 [default]
[NEW] Device 01:B6:AD:7F:63:25 PLAYSTATION(R)3 Controller
[NEW] Device 01:B6:52:85:63:25 PLAYSTATION(R)3 Controller
[NEW] Device 20:73:AB:91:DD:6F Bluetooth V3.0 Keyboard
[CHG] Device 01:B6:52:85:63:25 Connected: yes

[PLAYSTATION(R)3 Controller]# info 01:B6:AD:7F:63:25
Device 01:B6:52:85:63:25
Name: PLAYSTATION(R)3 Controller
Alias: PLAYSTATION(R)3 Controller
Class: 0x000540
Icon: input-keyboard
Paired: no
Trusted: yes
Blocked: no
Connected: yes
LegacyPairing: no
UUID: Human Interface Device... (00001124-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)
Modalias: usb:v054Cp0268d0000

Intriguingly 'info <hwaddress>' does not reveal a "Paired: yes", even if the controller is successfuly connected.

However, if it still fails to connect, I would suggest to remove the device with bluetoothctl (remove <hwaddress>),
before starting a new connection attempt with sixpair. Perhaps there is an old authentication key stored, which prevents
authentication/pairing with the device.

After pairing has been successful, 'dmesg' reveals:
[ 1128.825246] input: PLAYSTATION(R)3 Controller as /devices/platform/soc/3f980000.usb/usb1/1-1/1-1.3/1-1.3:1.0/bluetooth/hci0/hci0:11/0005:054C:0268.0007/input/input6
[ 1128.829122] sony 0005:054C:0268.0007: input,hidraw1: BLUETOOTH HID v0.00 Joystick [PLAYSTATION(R)3 Controller] on 00:1b:10:00:2a:ec

pablo

Hi @luetzel

Regardless of what I do, I always get:

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

I've run sudo sixpair a million times. Nothing happens if I press the PS button on the controller in bluetoothctl either.

I removed the device with bluetoothctl as suggested and tried to repair resulting in the same issue.

I have a bit of time this weekend... I will try and investigate this further. I just wish I understood why the Pi3 doesn't have a proper bluetooth address. I'm not sure now if my Pi is faulty or if this is actually the root cause of everyone's Pi3 bluetooth woes... :(