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    SHANWAN / PS3 CONTROLLER Pi3 RETROPIE 3.6 BLUETOOTH SETUP

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    • luetzelL
      luetzel @Wolfman100
      last edited by

      @Wolfman100
      Hmm, it should be possible to see PS3 connection attempts even without having the
      right bluez version.
      You dongle should see the controller as soon as you press the PS button, given that it is not connected via USB.

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      • Wolfman100W
        Wolfman100
        last edited by

        When attempting to apply the patches I get this output:

        root@osmc:/bluez-5.39# patch -p1 < patches/bluez-01_add-obexd-policy.patch
        patch: **** Only garbage was found in the patch input.

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        • luetzelL
          luetzel @Wolfman100
          last edited by

          @Wolfman100
          Ah ok, never mind ;-)

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          • luetzelL
            luetzel @Wolfman100
            last edited by

            @Wolfman100

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

            result of 'sudo service bluetoothd status':

            root@osmc:/# sudo service bluetoothd status
            ● bluetoothd.service
            Loaded: not-found (Reason: No such file or directory)
            Active: inactive (dead)

            Please try it again with:

            sudo service bluetooth status

            (my mistake, the 'd' at the end was wrong)

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            • Wolfman100W
              Wolfman100
              last edited by

              The really really weird thing is that somehow the Pi/OSMC is seeing the PS3 controller as I am currently watching the News streaming on OSMC and when I push the PS button on the PS3 controller after about 7 seconds it makes the stream temporarily freeze for a couple of seconds indicating that the pi is seeing it as this is repeatable every time I push the PS button!! V strange!

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              • Wolfman100W
                Wolfman100 @luetzel
                last edited by

                @luetzel ermmm...I'm confused.Is this what should happen when I apply the patch?

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                • Wolfman100W
                  Wolfman100
                  last edited by

                  root@osmc:/# sudo service bluetooth status
                  ● bluetooth.service - Bluetooth service
                  Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/bluetooth.service; enabled)
                  Drop-In: /etc/systemd/system/bluetooth.service.d
                  └─local.conf
                  Active: active (running) since Tue 2016-05-17 00:28:47 BST; 13h ago
                  Docs: man:bluetoothd(8)
                  Main PID: 2072 (bluetoothd)
                  Status: "Running"
                  CGroup: /system.slice/bluetooth.service
                  └─2072 /usr/libexec/bluetooth/bluetoothd

                  May 17 00:28:47 osmc bluetoothd[2072]: Bluetooth daemon 5.38
                  May 17 00:28:47 osmc bluetoothd[2072]: Starting SDP server
                  May 17 00:28:48 osmc bluetoothd[2072]: Bluetooth management interface 1.10 initialized
                  May 17 00:37:56 osmc bluetoothd[2072]: Failed to obtain handles for "Service Changed" characteristic

                  Warning: Unit file changed on disk, 'systemctl daemon-reload' recommended.

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                  • luetzelL
                    luetzel @Wolfman100
                    last edited by

                    @Wolfman100
                    I think it is related to the connection attempts, it fails to pair and disconnects again. You should
                    be able to follow this process with 'sudo bluetoothctl'. After a failed connection attempt you should
                    see a 'disconnected' message for the controller.

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                    • luetzelL
                      luetzel @Wolfman100
                      last edited by

                      @Wolfman100
                      Bluetooth daemon 5.38

                      Version should be at 5.39 not 5.38! Did you forget to 'make install' or to reboot your Pi?

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                      • Wolfman100W
                        Wolfman100 @luetzel
                        last edited by

                        @luetzel no I definetly did 'make install' but haven't rebooted.

                        Also,all the patches haven't been applied yet as I was awaiting your response as to whether this was correct:

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

                        When attempting to apply the patches I get this output:

                        root@osmc:/bluez-5.39# patch -p1 < patches/bluez-01_add-obexd-policy.patch
                        patch: **** Only garbage was found in the patch input.

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                        • luetzelL
                          luetzel @Wolfman100
                          last edited by luetzel

                          @Wolfman100

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

                          @luetzel ermmm...I'm confused.Is this what should happen when I apply the patch

                          Sorry, the link that you provided was broken.

                          Awww, I see you did not download the patches in 'raw-mode'. Make sure that you don't have html tags in your files.

                          Press the 'Raw' button, before you download the patch files from github!

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                          • Wolfman100W
                            Wolfman100 @luetzel
                            last edited by

                            @luetzel OK will do now.Somethings definetly amiss now though as my Bluetooth option has dissapeared from within OSMC

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                            • Wolfman100W
                              Wolfman100
                              last edited by

                              @luetzel

                              I was downloading the patches by right-click 'save link address' and pasting it after wget

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                              • luetzelL
                                luetzel @Wolfman100
                                last edited by

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

                                @luetzel

                                I was downloading the patches by right-click 'save link address' and pasting it after wget

                                Ah ok, that's why it didn't work for you. Make sure that your link has a 'raw' in front, when downloading with wget:

                                https://raw.githubusercontent.com/luetzel/bluez/master/patch/bluez-01_add-obexd-policy.patch

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                                • Wolfman100W
                                  Wolfman100 @luetzel
                                  last edited by

                                  @luetzel Thanks again.Will try again

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                                  • Wolfman100W
                                    Wolfman100 @luetzel
                                    last edited by

                                    @luetzel Shall I download from your github?

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                                    • luetzelL
                                      luetzel @Wolfman100
                                      last edited by

                                      @Wolfman100

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

                                      @luetzel Shall I download from your github?

                                      Well thats up to you, at least it would simplify the procedure to a:

                                      git clone https://github.com/luetzel/bluez
                                      cd bluez
                                      ./configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var --enable-sixaxis
                                      make -j3
                                      sudo make install

                                      Note, that you probably have to do 'sudo apt-get install git' first.

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                                      • Wolfman100W
                                        Wolfman100 @luetzel
                                        last edited by

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

                                        sudo make install

                                        Ha..well that seems a lot easier!So I'm presuming this is with all the patches already applied?

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                                        • Wolfman100W
                                          Wolfman100
                                          last edited by

                                          This is now what I get when I run sixpair:

                                          root@osmc:/# sudo sixpair
                                          Current Bluetooth master: ff:00:03:c6:9e:66
                                          Unable to retrieve local bd_addr from hcitool dev.
                                          Please enable Bluetooth or specify an address manually.

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                                          • luetzelL
                                            luetzel @Wolfman100
                                            last edited by

                                            @Wolfman100
                                            yes they are already included.

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