[SOLVED] 2 PS3 CONTROLLERS

[Anonymous]

Hi guys. I had watched floobs video on how to pair ps3 on retropie 3 and it worked. But only for 1 controller. Here is how I got 2 to work for me.

I’m on retropie 3.0
Installed from SD card
Using “pluggable” bluetooth dongle brand
Using 1 playstation controller with no rumble pack and one with dual shock

So.

So here is how it worked for me.

1.Sync the first one just like Floobs Video
2.Configure controller with retroarch
2.2 Configure controller with emulation station as well
3 SOLUTION – Above the exit 0 in the /etc/rc.local add: “hciconfig hci0 piscan” with no quotes
3.1 Edit – Add a 15 second delay before emulationstation. I actually forget where the file is but it might be etc/emulationstation.cfg or/.cfg
4. Turn off pi.
5. When you turn on pi watch for the bluetooth dongle to light up. As soon as it does. Hit ONE! playstation sync button. It will take a while to sync. All the way to emulationstation completion. AFTER THE FIRST ONE SYNCS HIT SYNC ON THE SECOND! ALWAYS SYNC THE SAME CONTROLLERS IN THE SAME ORDER ON BOOT. IT SEEMS TO WORK BETTER.

6. If this did not work for you. The only part of my setup that I cannot remember is if I had to plug in the second controller and do step 1 with floobs video. So worst comes to worst do the whole floob video with second controller and you should be good to go.

7. This does not work for me if I have a wifi dongle attached at same time. Strange. But if I remove it – works flawlessly so far

Hope this helped someone out! Floob please make a video showing how to do 2nd controller? You the man!

[quackwalks]

Retro Pie 3.0
Rpi 2
2 official ps3 controllers
1 pluggable brand usb dongle

I can confirm this worked for me, but only if I used a video splash screen which took 30 seconds to complete. (the legend of retro splash screen) I tried using an image splash screen only once but I think they need some time to connect.

[quackwalks]

It did work, until I updated an emulator and tried to play some neo geo games. It seemed like a fluke.

I tried a back up and changed the line of code. I would have to remove the ps3 controller setup and re install it. Then after pairing the controllers and doing a full shut down, they would both pair again, but they would only do it once. I’m getting an error durring boot that says,
Can’t set scan mode on hci0: Network is down (100)
[FAIL] startpar: service(s) returned failure: rc.local … failed!

I assume this relates to the change suggested in this solution.
I’ll start from scratch in a year or so.

[Anonymous]

lol.

[majerle9]

asipsis,
Have you been able to get multiple controllers to pair on 100% of startups? I followed your ‘hciconfig hci0 piscan’ method and I’m only getting it to work about 70% of the time. When it works the dongle will turn on and start pairing when the splashscreen displays. The other times my bluetooth dongle fails to turn on so I can’t pair my controllers. I get the same error as quackwalks

Can’t set scan mode on hci0: Network is down (100)
[FAIL] startpar: service(s) returned failure: rc.local … failed!

I can’t figure out why bluetooth works sometimes but not every time. Is it possible that the splashscreen finishes too quickly before the dongle can turn on? Is there a way to extend the boot period when the splashscreen is running to give the dongle enough time to turn on?

Or am I wrong and the answer is something else entirely?

[Anonymous]

Hi guys. I made a quick edit.

Look at 3.1 above and also look at caps locks in comments. You have to actually sync 1 at a time and always in the same order for best results.

You might have to attach usb cable first times if you’ve lost sync so it can recatch then reboot and always sync in same order. Let me know if you get different results.

And sorry no idea about error messages you are getting as I am not getting those.

Cheers.

[majerle9]

Thank you asipsis for mentioning the 15 second delay. I just made two changes and now it seems like everything is working. Here’s what I did in case anyone else is facing the Can’t set scan mode on hci0: Network is down (100) error.

Step 1: Add a 15 second sleep command before EmulationStation starts.

cd /usr/bin/
sudo nano emulationstation

After the #!/bin/bash line, before the $es_bin, add the command sleep 15.
My script now looks like:

#!/bin/bash

sleep 15
es_bin="/opt/retropie/supplementary/EmulationStation/emulationstation"

nb_lock_files=$(find /tmp -name ".X?-lock" | wc -l)
if [ $nb_lock_files -ne 0 ]; then

Step 2: Change rc.local

cd /etc
sudo nano rc.local

Add the following 2 lines right before the “exit 0″ line:

hciconfig device up
hciconfig enable pscan

[quackwalks]

Works for me. Thank you so much.

[Anonymous]

majerle9, thank you so much for this. I just recently updated my rp2 to retropie 3.1 (from 3.0 beta and have used other builds prior), because I ended up getting a larger (128 gig) micro sd. Prior to this version, I never had any issues with my dualshock 3 pairing properly at startup, or re-pairing after turning it of manually (holding the ps button for 10 seconds). As soon as I upgraded the build to 3.1 (from scratch, fresh image etc….) I could only get the dualshock to pair wireless properly after the initial setup. After that, if I shut down or re-started the pi2 it was random at best, and if I turned it off manually it would *never* re-pair.

adding these two lines to /etc/rc.local (above zero)fixed everything perfectly!

hciconfig device up
hciconfig enable pscan

I wish I understood what these two commands actually technically told the rc.local file to do, but it fixed all my issues. If anyone wants to enlighten me, I would appreciate it :-)

I have also noticed as of this build (to me at least, and with my controller and setup), adding a delay “sleep” timer to the emulationstation script is no longer necessary after your game pad has been configured with emulation station at least once. After this, if you are in emulationstation well before the dualshock 3 is paired, and it has already been configured, all you have to do is hold down one button on the gamepad and it will go right into emulationstation without asking you to reconfigure it like previous versions. Has anyone else noticed or tried this? It should be documented because its a pretty fantastic new feature of the Retropie build (if it already has been mentioned, I apologize). Anyways, thank you again….and to Floob/Herbfargus and everyone who ever worked/works so hard on this project, and has helped me (via forum or videos) :-)

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