Donnerstag, 16. August 2012

Dualshock 3 and Raspberry PI

Getting Sony Dualshock 3  gamepad to work in Raspberry Pi on Raspbian (Debian Wheezy).

First of all, I'll need a bluetooth dongle, since Raspbery Pi doesn't have built-in one, listing of compatible dongle you can find here.

So, install dependencies first

sudo apt-get install bluez-utils bluez-compat bluez-hcidump checkinstall libusb-dev  libbluetooth-dev joystick

It takes a while.

After all type "hciconfig" in console, you should see something like this.

pi@raspberrypi ~ $ hciconfig
hci0: Type: BR/EDR Bus: USB
 BD Address: 00:1F:81:00:06:20 ACL MTU: 1021:4 SCO MTU: 180:1
UP RUNNING PSCAN
RX bytes:1260 acl:0 sco:0 events:46 errors:0
TX bytes:452 acl:0 sco:0 commands:45 errors:0


if not, your dongle seems not to be recognized by system.

So now, we need to pairing the dongle with the gamepad using this tool.

download and compile it.

wget http://www.pabr.org/sixlinux/sixpair.c
gcc -o sixpair sixpair.c -lusb

After this you should have a executable file "sixpair".
Now connect your  Dualshock via a USB cable to Raspberry Pi and launch this file with sudo.

sudo ./sixpair

Current Bluetooth master: DE:AD:BE:EF:00:00
Setting master bd_addr to: 00:1F:81:00:06:20


If you see this, it was successful.

Install a Sixaxis Joystick Manager. Download a last archive and compile only important for us part.

wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/qtsixa/files/QtSixA%201.5.1/QtSixA-1.5.1-src.tar.gz
tar xfvz QtSixA-1.5.1-src.tar.gz
cd QtSixA-1.5.1/sixad
make
sudo mkdir -p /var/lib/sixad/profiles
sudo checkinstall

the last command make automatically a package for you, so you can later simple uninstall it, if you won't it or use a different system, type  "sudo make install" instead of "sudo checkinstall"

Now test it, for this launch temporary a sixad daemon.

sudo sixad --start

Then press a "PS" button on Dualshock gamepad, if you feel a vibration, it works, congratulations!

After all you can make "sixad" daemon starting at boot time.

sudo update-rc.d sixad defaults
reboot


If you have any trouble with recognition, you can debug your Dualshock controller with "jstest".

sudo jstest /dev/input/js0


P.S. Thanks goes to http://blog.onsw.net/yuta/

31 Kommentare:

  1. I was searching the net for sixaxis on pi, and there is only your article ;)
    the only thing you forgot (maybe you got it installed previously) is that you have to install pkg-config, otherwise the make fails.

    Anyway, thanks for your help

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    1. Hi, unfortunately I don't know, I don't have rpi anymore.

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  3. http://forum.stmlabs.com/showthread.php?tid=5123

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  4. This worked great for me! I had to run "sudo apt-get update" first for everything to install correctly.

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  5. How can I run qtsixa ??? Please answer me

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  6. I dont knot the terminal command to start the qtsixa gui
    how can i start qtsixa ???

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    1. you need compile it first, the instruction is in INSTALL file, inside of archive, but I think you need install "python-qt4-dev" using apt-get for dependency first. After install just type qtsixa in terminal.

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    2. Thanks you helped me very very thanks again

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  7. Hmm, can I somehow use this without the bluetooth dongle, that is via USB?

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    1. You can't... PS3 controllers only speak Bluetooth. The USB port is only for charging and pairing the controller.

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    2. yes you can, plug usb and linux (or windows or mac) simply recognize the controller as a game controller.

      usb work normally.

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  8. how to disable accelerometers?.. the profile on MAC address of the SIXAXIS controller doesn't disable it.. worked before on XBMCbuntu. But on the Raspberry Pi I can't get it to work.

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    1. Starting daemon in "Legacy" mode should disable accelerometers, check sixad manual for more info: http://qtsixa.sourceforge.net/manual.pdf

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  9. Hi, after get bluetooth working and sixpair compiled, I execute and i get that error message:

    sudo ./sixpair
    No controller found on USB busses.

    Any idea?


    Thanks!

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  10. Just as a note, there is a space after the / in the jstest command, and it caused an error. Just for anybody who was confused like me.

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  11. Dieser Kommentar wurde vom Autor entfernt.

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  12. having trouble connecting 2 ps3 controlers.. any help?

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  13. can somebody help me please?

    desktop@steamos:~/QtSixA-1.5.1/sixad$ make
    mkdir -p bins
    g++ -O2 -Wall -Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions sixad-bin.cpp bluetooth.cpp shared.cpp textfile.cpp -o bins/sixad-bin `pkg-config --cflags --libs bluez` -lpthread -fpermissive
    /bin/sh: 1: pkg-config: not found
    sixad-bin.cpp: In function 'int main(int, char**)':
    sixad-bin.cpp:84:20: warning: taking address of temporary [-fpermissive]
    sixad-bin.cpp:89:18: error: 'close' was not declared in this scope
    sixad-bin.cpp:100:20: error: 'sleep' was not declared in this scope
    sixad-bin.cpp:109:22: error: 'close' was not declared in this scope
    sixad-bin.cpp:117:22: error: 'close' was not declared in this scope
    sixad-bin.cpp:140:18: error: 'close' was not declared in this scope
    sixad-bin.cpp:144:14: error: 'close' was not declared in this scope
    bluetooth.cpp: In function 'void do_connect(int, bdaddr_t*, bdaddr_t*, int)':
    bluetooth.cpp:104:30: error: 'close' was not declared in this scope
    bluetooth.cpp:110:24: error: 'dup2' was not declared in this scope
    bluetooth.cpp:111:22: error: 'close' was not declared in this scope
    bluetooth.cpp: In function 'int l2cap_listen(const bdaddr_t*, short unsigned int, int, int)':
    bluetooth.cpp:148:17: error: 'close' was not declared in this scope
    bluetooth.cpp:162:17: error: 'close' was not declared in this scope
    bluetooth.cpp: In function 'void l2cap_accept(int, int, int, int, int)':
    bluetooth.cpp:195:26: error: 'close' was not declared in this scope
    bluetooth.cpp:201:26: error: 'close' was not declared in this scope
    bluetooth.cpp:221:26: error: 'fork' was not declared in this scope
    bluetooth.cpp:228:32: error: 'dup2' was not declared in this scope
    bluetooth.cpp:229:30: error: 'close' was not declared in this scope
    bluetooth.cpp:242:57: error: 'execve' was not declared in this scope
    bluetooth.cpp:254:26: error: 'close' was not declared in this scope
    bluetooth.cpp: In function 'int l2cap_connect(bdaddr_t*, bdaddr_t*, short unsigned int)':
    bluetooth.cpp:274:25: error: 'close' was not declared in this scope
    bluetooth.cpp:291:25: error: 'close' was not declared in this scope
    make: *** [sixad_bins] Error 1

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    1. try install pkg-config.

      sudo apt-get install pkg-config

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    2. well, as I understand steamos doesn't have some dependencies for compiling sixad. Try this guide instead http://www.reddit.com/r/SteamOS/comments/1svnfx/ps3_controller_

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    3. that don't work also because he work with debian on a virtualmachine

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    4. i can connect my contreoller but don't have interface for controlls

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  14. when i put

    wget http://www.pabr.org/sixlinux/sixpair.c
    gcc -o sixpair sixpair.c -lusb

    it says wget: --level: invalid number 'usb'.

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  15. i fixed thde first one but sixpair is a text file and it wont run

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    1. You need to make the text file into an executable file (the line starting gcc below) :

      wget http://www.pabr.org/sixlinux/sixpair.c
      gcc -o sixpair sixpair.c -lusb
      this is from here
      http://kearnesrpi.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/mame-and-ps3-dualshock-controller.html

      I hope this helps! I'm new to this and have been trying to mak my os3 work for 3 days now ...and still haven't had any success!

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