Problems with my ps3 remote :(

[oblivionlord]

Im using the ps3 remote and it was working fine at first but all the sudden when i press the buttons on the remote, Eventghost only shows HID keys which recognizes that the buttons are being pressed but its not emulating the keystrokes which I assigned it to do.

I noticed that if i press alot of the buttons on the remote all at the same time then it 'wakes' Eventghost up and then it starts to do the keystroke emulation. If I let the remote sit down for a little while then Eventghost will go into idle and when i press the buttons on the remote after that, it goes back to only showing the HID presses.

Now pressing all the buttons at once doesn't always wake it back up to recognizing the keystrokes. Not even restarting the computer or shutting down the plugin to starting the plugin again will get it to work.

[oblivionlord]

anyone?

[stottle]

If it worked before and isn't now, something must have changed. Did you change which plugins were loading? Or upgrade EG to a newer version?

What do you mean "not emulating the keystrokes I assigned it to?" Do you mean actions, or are you using the Keyboard plugin?

Brett

[oblivionlord]

I haven't changed anything. Everything is a constant. So to my suprise this is a big mystery. I have even used 2 Bluetooth doggles and it does it on both.

When I say not emulating keystrokes.. im saying that it recognizes actions as in showing the HID key in the log each time I press and release a button.

[stottle]

I apologize if I'm stating the obvious, but when you say emulating keystrokes, you want the actions in the "keyboard events" folder (usually a subfolder of Contexts) to run, right?

If so, that folder needs to be enabled. Is it?

Also, if you look at an action that you want to work, can you open that folder/macro and see what event is associated with the action? In order for the keypress action to fire, the exact event (a HID event in your case) needs to be fired by the IR plugin.

If the events don't match, you can correct the problem by adding your HID events to the macros/actions that you want to fire.

It almost sounds like you have an action that is disabling the keyboard emulation, or you need new batteries and the remote only works intermittently? Are you sure there isn't a problem with the remote?

Brett

[oblivionlord]

Apparently the remote does this only when the batteries in it are low.

Perhaps he doesnt send full data but somthing else. I really dont know. It would just show in eventghost each time that im pressing a button and act as if nothing was assigned to the button even though I have a firm working profile that I made.

After I changed the batteries it runs like normal. I didnt change a single setting.

Very Wierd

[stottle]

Glad you got it working!

Brett

[oblivionlord]

just out of curiosity would you know why the ps3 remote would act like that when the battery is low?

[stottle]

Do I know? Not at all. Do I have a guess? Yeah.

The IR receiver probably has a signal strength threshold, where if the received IR signals don't exceed a value they will be ignored. That would help prevent detecting incorrect codes. A low battery probably probably transmits at lower power, so many of the button presses won't break threshold and will be ignored. Pressing a bunch of buttons will get some to be received randomly, probably when you happen to be pointing the remote directly at the sensor.

That'd be my guess.

Brett

[CHeitkamp]

The IR receiver probably has a signal strength threshold, where if the received IR signals don't exceed a value they will be ignored.

The PS3 remote is a bluetooth device - not an ir remote with an additional receiver. All communication is done using bluetooth.

just out of curiosity would you know why the ps3 remote would act like that when the battery is low?

I've 2 ideas, what happenend:

• The actual plugin compares the (nearly) whole data sent by the remote, not only the keycode. Possibly there is a low batttery status flag in the data - so the compare don't match any longer, if this flag really exists and is set.
• My PS3 remote had a strange problem some days ago: The remote sent an all keys released message when pressing a button and a type of button pressed message when releasing the button. After power-cycling the remote everything went normal. Possibly you had an similary problem.

You could try to replace the batteries with those - older ones - you used, when the problem started. If the remote works without problems for the next days - the second assertion seems to be the right one - otherwise the first one...

BTW:
I'm doing a rework on the PS3 plugin with a little bit enhancend data parsing (e.g. better recognition of multi key presses). Hope to release it in a few days. If there really is a low-bat flag, I'll implement it as event (or warning?), too.

[oblivionlord]

I did a reset of the plugin as well as on the remote itself and it didn't help the issue at all. The only thing that helped was replacing the batteries.

[uncola]

CHeitkamp thanks so much for your plugin! I spent days and days trying to get the ps3 remote working correctly with programs like intelliremote and ps3 remote application.. none of them fully worked until I found your eventghost plugin. I have it working so perfectly now.. thank you! Can't wait for the update with low battery warning

[CHeitkamp]

... Possibly there is a low batttery status flag in the data - so the compare don't match any longer, if this flag really exists and is set.

There is really a battery status. The last byte of the raw data is the battery level (5: full down to 1: empty).

CHeitkamp thanks so much for your plugin!

It's not my plugin - the plugin was written by the user Thierry with patches from magao and nova77.

Can't wait for the update with low battery warning

Hope to release it soon...

[4list4ir]

Hi I'm another avid fan of the PS3 BD remote and also of the excellent sofware EventGhost,

My question is why do they eat up batteries so fast, they last about a day!

Am I missing something in the setup tht should put the remote into "SNIFF" mode (from what I've researched this is some kind of standby mode)

I've played with the 2 parameters in the plugin
1, Sleep event generated after xSecs
2, Hibernate event generated after xSecs

But I've not seen any events in the log.

Other than power, this remote setup works great for me.

Regards
Ali

[4list4ir]

Ok now i still have no Sleep / Hibernate
I've installed the Widcomm 5.1.0.1100 Drivers and installed the patches. (to allow sleep command)
I've gone back to V 0.3.6.1486 of eventghost (to accept the following)
I've put in the v3.0.1 of the plugin (which enables the sleep command)

Should this work?

I still see no events in eventghost wth sleep or hibernate, i see nothing?

what am i missing? here is a screenshot