Send PS3 commands from non-device?

[ImBrian]

Yeah - I had been trying one at a time as well with the same result (with emu running in a different terminal window):

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pi@raspberrypi ~ $ emuclient --event "cross(255)"
option -e with value `cross(255)'
using default refresh period: 11.25ms

and no response from the PS3 itself. The emu command does wake the PS3, so it does appear to be correctly synced and sending good data - but have not had luck with the emuclient. The command line additions do also work over a bluetooth connection? Is there a way to have more verbose output to sort out the issue?

[Matlo]

You should not specify '2' as sixaxis index unless there already are 2 sixaxis connected (which would mean indexes 0, 1 are used). The hci0 argument is also wrong (hci0 => 0). Just don't specify these two arguments, the default ones (0, 0) will be used.

The command line additions should work whatever the connection. I fixed that in the announcement.

The emu debug traces being displayed is a regression in the source code. You can send the process output to /dev/null so that it will use less cpu.

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emu XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX > /dev/null

I just checked, it works fine on my side.

[ImBrian]

Thanks again @Matlo - you are right - I have it working now. I'm excited to start digging in and getting this working with my web-based universal remote. Your support has been incredible - thank you again (and sorry for the barrage of questions)!

[ImBrian]

So I have the controller largely integrated. I am running into quite a few timing issues regarding buttons that need to have a return state. I'm trying to run this command:

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emuclient --event "down(255)" & sleep .01 && emuclient --event "down(0)"

And I have very inconsistent results. Sometimes it'll go down one menu item (the desired behavior). Sometimes it doesn't recognize the command at all - and other times, it appears the "down(0)" portion is delayed and it cycles through several menu items.

I don't suppose there's a way to execute these commands with more accuracy? The standard buttons (Cross, Triangle, PS, Start, etc) all behave flawlessly - I'm just having troubles traversing menus.

Video of my work so far: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbapV3sG7hI

Thanks!

[Matlo]

Sleeping 10ms between two commands may not be enough for the console to register the input.

Try something like 50ms.

[ImBrian]

Yeah, I've been playing with the sleep time (from 10ms to 100ms) and the pressure (from 50'ish to 255). It's pretty inconsistent results - sometimes it registers as if I'm holding the button for a very long time and sometimes as if I hadn't pressed it at all. Trying to find that sweet spot, which I think I have pretty close - but maybe every third directional command seems to get 'stuck' and every 10th or so fails to register at all.

[Matlo]

Maybe you are having bluetooth issues...

Some people have connexion issues that I wasn't able to reproduce and fix.

[Matlo]

The connection issue is fixed in GIMX 1.12.

[ImBrian]

I've just upgraded to Gimx_2.01-1_armhf.deb. In the previous version (1.12), I could execute the "emuclient" command to issue single commands. Has this been removed? Is there documentation on how to issue single commands to this new version?

Thanks!

[Matlo]

You have to run one GIMX instance with the "--src IP:port" argument, and another one with the "--dst IP:port" argument.

http://gimx.fr/wiki/index.php?title=Command_line