PI 3 + PS3 Bluetooth controller freeze fix. UPDATED
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@glennlake Fantastic! Thank you....I'll give that a shot when I get home from work afterwhile. I checked the date/time and it was incorrect so I went ahead and put the date/time module last night but I'd like for it to not be on there. I keep mine plugged in to ethernet just for kodi stuff so this will help greatly!
Thanks everyone for their patience and help. I'm sure LOTS will benefit from just this one thread itself.
p.s. I got my PS3 controller transferred back to onboard bluetooth after the update last night but didn't get a lot of time to play with it but in the 30 minutes I did....worked fine. Anyone else experiences thus far?
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Trying now.. 30 good minutes without any freeze, that's a record! :) Will let the pi on for a while running a Mame game....
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After some hours still running fine, and no new problem has appeared. :)
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pi3, 3.7, updated to kernel 4.4, ps3 wireless
I've been using the shutdown system through the menu to turn off the system. I have to unplug it and can't leave it on for the time being.
I performed the update as per the first post including the certificate command (curl error).
Immediately after this update, when I use the shutdown command and unplug the pi, it won't boot upon re-plugging it in. It either crashes and stays black or I get a bunch of timeout messages on the screen. If I unplug without using the shutdown command it boots up just fine. If I unplug during the crash and re-plug it boots fine.
What log info can I provide to help with this and does this need it's own thread even though I believe it's related to the kernel 4.4 update.
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After I do the "sudo rpi-update 15ffab5493d74b12194e6bfc5bbb1c0f71140155" and it's doing the update thing, then after a bit, I get several errors, like:
"gzip: stdin not in gzip format"
"tar: Child returned status 1"
"tar: error is not recoverable: exiting now"I'm doing this on my raspberry pi 3, Retropie 3.7.
Any idea how to solve this?
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@opensourcefan I dont't know, I cannot reproduce it. Check /var/log/syslog.
@thorgim reboot and try again.
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@Rascas It did the same thing again, but after I did a "sudo rpi-update", then it update the firmware to 4.4.9-v7, and it backup the 4.1.19-v7 with no errors at all. Seems it work better than the other option.
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@thorgim rpi-update without the hash updates to the latest kernel version available, with the hash updates to the specific commit. Since that specific commit is already verified to work for many people, and later ones not, that was the reason to pick that specific commit.
EDIT: That is no longer needed. Kernel 4.4 is on Raspbian repo now, just update as normal:
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade -
@Rascas Thanks
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@Rascas Thank you!
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pi3, 3.7, updated to kernel 4.4, ps3 wireless
I got my pi last month and was running retropie with the old kernel before and got everything running except for the random freezing problem. So I updated the kernel to 4.4 yesterday. Now it seems impossible for me to pair my ps3 wireless with my pi. Maybe I missed some important settings?
That's what I did:
'sudo apt-get install rpi-update'
'sudo rpi-update 15ffab5493d74b12194e6bfc5bbb1c0f71140155'
'sudo update-ca-certificates --fresh'I also tried to use:
'sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade'
Still the controller is working with usb, only. Any suggestions what else I could try to get my bluetooth working again? (I'm quite new to all of this so it is hard to tell what's going wrong for me)
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I think this is a bug with the update itself. It may be killing the Bluetooth. Take a look at this thread https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/905/lost-ps3-bluetooth-after-updating-raspbian/9
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I foresaw there being a BT issue in retropie when I saw the release notes for Raspian on Distrowatch yesterday from Simon Long:
"We've just released a new version of our Raspbian image with some (hopefully) useful features. When the Pi 3 launched back in February, we'd not had time to do much in terms of getting access to the new on-board Bluetooth hardware. There was a working software stack, but the UI was non-existent. I'd hoped to be able to use one of the existing Linux Bluetooth UIs, but on trying them all, none were really what I was looking for in terms of usability and integration with the look and feel of the desktop. I really didn't want to write one from scratch, but that ended up being what I did, which meant a fun few weeks trying to make head or tail of the mysteries of BlueZ and D-Bus. After a few false starts, I finally got something I felt was usable, and so there is now a Bluetooth plugin for the LXPanel taskbar."
So, the new bluetooth module does fix BT in LXDE...but apparently breaks in in Retropie. The short term solution is to downgrade it as stated in the previous post (although I have yet to confirm that...but I see no reason why it would not work) but again it is a short term solution. The solution is not to suppress the update but to fix the compatibility issue in Retropie. Hopefully we'll see a v3.8 with compatibility with the new BT module fixed so that we can enjoy the best of all worlds.
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After a dist-upgrade, do:
wget http://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian/pool/main/p/pi-bluetooth/pi-bluetooth_0.1.0_armhf.deb
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sudo dpkg -i pi-bluetooth_0.1.0_armhf.deb
Reboot afterward. If hciconfig give you an output the bluetooth is working again.
This will downgrade the bluetooth module and allow the PS3 controller (and other BT devices) to work again. Best part is now that the kernel has been updated the freezing no longer exists. I have been using the PS3 controller all night without a freeze.
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what way can I check what version of the bluetooth module is installed from the commandline and also how to check if the bluetooth module is seeing the controller at commandline level?
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If you download the pi-bluetooth_0.1.0_armhf.deb and do a sudo dpkg -i pi-bluetooth_0.1.0_armhf.deb, you will get a warning that you are downgrading the file. You will then know you are running the newer version that is not working. You can allow the downgrade.
I believe you can do an hcitool dev to show all on devices if I remember correctly. Don't quote me on that though...
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@eightbit Thanks for that info.I will have a look at that this evening.I am running RetroPie installed in OSMC and am wondering whether this is causing some kind of Bluetooth conflict between 'bluetoothctl' and 'sixpair'.
I have a bluetooth keyboard which works flawlessly with this setup and also works within RetroPie.This leads me to believe that because this Bluetooth keyboard is working in RetroPie that RetroPie is using Bluetoothctl which OSMC is using rather than enabling SIxpair?
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I have tried the downgrade but encountered the following error:
root@osmc://# sudo apt-get install rpi-update
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package rpi-update
root@osmc://# wget http://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian/pool/main/p/pi-bluetooth/pi-bluetooth_0.1.0_armhf.deb
--2016-05-16 12:04:03-- http://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian/pool/main/p/pi-bluetooth/pi-bluetooth_0.1.0_armhf.deb
Resolving archive.raspberrypi.org (archive.raspberrypi.org)... 93.93.135.188, 93.93.128.133, 93.93.130.236, ...
Connecting to archive.raspberrypi.org (archive.raspberrypi.org)|93.93.135.188|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 3182 (3.1K) [application/x-debian-package]
Saving to: ‘pi-bluetooth_0.1.0_armhf.deb’pi-bluetooth_0.1.0_ 100%[=====================>] 3.11K --.-KB/s in 0.001s
2016-05-16 12:04:03 (2.75 MB/s) - ‘pi-bluetooth_0.1.0_armhf.deb’ saved [3182/3182]
root@osmc://# sudo dpkg -i pi-bluetooth_0.1.0_armhf.deb
Selecting previously unselected package pi-bluetooth.
(Reading database ... 51347 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack pi-bluetooth_0.1.0_armhf.deb ...
Unpacking pi-bluetooth (0.1.0) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of pi-bluetooth:
pi-bluetooth depends on bluez-firmware; however:
Package bluez-firmware is not installed.dpkg: error processing package pi-bluetooth (--install):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
pi-bluetooth
root@osmc://#It says package bluez-firmware is not installed.It must be though otherwise I wouldn't be able to use my bluetooth keyboard right?!Could this be that I am doing it as a root user under OSMC?
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ive literary tried every step in this thread and now my controller when i press to connect to BT connects and then the system freezes up right after ...Is there a legit clean way to get this thing working without a million different steps?
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@smoothmalik if you read the first post, you only need one step and it is to update and upgrade. It works for me so I cannot see why it wont work for others. I had already installed the package raspberrypi-sys-mods so check if you have that installed also.
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