Just wanted to thank you for your work on this. Pairing PS3 joypads is one of the most wanted features of the crazy people installing Ubuntu on their PS3.
Please make other posts about it when it gets accepted upstream (kernel, bluez) so that we can cherry pick the commits and help test it asap.
gnome-bluetooth 2.27.5 can pair with a Wiimote. Nothing useful happens while it is paired.
25 May 2009 at 17:46
Anonymous said...
hi there. I am developing an app that connects Sixaxis to PC through bluetooth. I never liked to have a patched hidd just to connect it. But having Sixaxis support out-of-the-box will be just awesome! I also posted an idea on the Ubuntu Brainstorm about this (still using for aproval)
The way to set the pad up in Bluetooth mode is fairly straight forward: Open the USB deviceGet the device's Bluetooth address through magic USB commandsWrite your Bluetooth adapter's address in the pad (magic USB commands again), and then give the device back to the USB HID driver, so that it works as a pad through USB. Set up the internals of bluetoothd so it recognises the device, and allows it to connect to your computerWhen the device connects through Bluetooth, poke at it with magic commands again to enable its HID mode (code is already in bluetoothd's input plugin) Yesterday I refactored my code as a bluetoothd plugin.
First up, detecting the device being plugged in. I wanted to use DeviceKit's GObject helper library, but it uses the D-Bus DeviceKit daemon which will be going away (note, this is just the DeviceKit daemon itself, not the -power, or -disks "sub"-daemons), in favour of libudev usage.
So I ported devkit-gobject to use libudev directly. Patch is currently being reviewed (it's in DavidZ's inbox), and it should show up soon in udev-extras under a different namespace.
After a bit of work, I had a bluetoothd plugin that detected PS3 pads being plugged in, and did the necessary work to make bluetoothd recognise it on plug.
[Image] Next, finishing up the libudev GObject helper library, and getting the bluetoothd plugin reviewed. And it would be nice to finally get the extra functionality merged into a hid driver in the kernel.
"Sixaxis support in BlueZ"
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Any chance of Wiimote support?
22 May 2009 at 13:43
The Wiimote shows up as a normal Bluetooth device and can be paired. The support for it is already in the latest gnome-bluetooth.
22 May 2009 at 14:29
Does that make it usable as a HID?
Is a joystick device node created?
22 May 2009 at 16:45
Just wanted to thank you for your work on this. Pairing PS3 joypads is one of the most wanted features of the crazy people installing Ubuntu on their PS3.
Please make other posts about it when it gets accepted upstream (kernel, bluez) so that we can cherry pick the commits and help test it asap.
Thanks again
22 May 2009 at 21:19
Pepsiman: Seriously, why don't you just try it?
ajeans: given that we get about a person a day showing up with those questions on the #bluez channel, I'm pretty certain it's helping :)
23 May 2009 at 00:43
hadess:
I'm using gnome-bluetooth 0.11.0-0ubuntu4.
I get "Pairing with Nintendo RVL-CNT-01 failed".
23 May 2009 at 18:40
Pepsiman: gnome-bluetooth 0.11? You're using bluez-gnome to do the pairing then. Upgrade to gnome-bluetooth 2.27.x
23 May 2009 at 19:55
hadess: I've installed gnome-bluetooth 2.27.4-0ubuntu5 from https://launchpad.net/~bmillemathias/+archive/ppa
The dialog is slightly different, but pairing fails in the same way.
23 May 2009 at 22:18
Pepsiman: Try 2.27.5. And this is the last comment I'll reply to, this isn't a forum, and there's a mailing-list and a bug tracker...
23 May 2009 at 22:28
gnome-bluetooth 2.27.5 can pair with a Wiimote.
Nothing useful happens while it is paired.
25 May 2009 at 17:46
hi there.
I am developing an app that connects Sixaxis to PC through bluetooth.
I never liked to have a patched hidd just to connect it.
But having Sixaxis support out-of-the-box will be just awesome!
I also posted an idea on the Ubuntu Brainstorm about this (still using for aproval)
26 May 2009 at 09:45
You sir, rock
27 May 2009 at 08:07
Next up, the Guitar Hero drums? :D
31 May 2009 at 23:02
Anon: If somebody buys me the gear :)
Bluetooth gear wishlist lives here: http://www.amazon.co.uk/registry/wishlist/TKL85H14LHFU/ref=cm_wl_rlist_go
5 June 2009 at 14:42