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Rob_F
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 Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2008 10:53 am Post subject: PS3 Bluetooth remote control protocol |
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Hey guys,
I had a look for threads relating to the Bluetooth remote, and couldn't find any useful information. I did find a thread where the poster wanted to be able to control the Blu-Ray player via alternate means, so I know there is demand out there besides my own. I personally would just prefer to use my iPaq rather than go out and buy another useless remote control, and am willing to invest a reasonable amount of effort to achieve that.
Seeing as I don't have a Bluetooth remote and I don't think you can rent them, I can't do the sniffing and protocol research. What I can do is write the code for a client and test it with my PS3.
If anyone is interested, this document looked highly useful in regard to sniffing Bluetooth devices.
Thanks for reading. |
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jimparis
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Rob_F
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| Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 3:24 am Post subject: |
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| Awesome, thanks! I'll post an update when I have something cool to show off. |
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ralferoo
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| Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 8:02 pm Post subject: Re: PS3 Bluetooth remote control protocol |
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| Rob_F wrote: | Hey guys,
I had a look for threads relating to the Bluetooth remote, and couldn't find any useful information. |
No need to do sniffing, you can see the data easily using "hcidump -x"
I've documented the controller pretty fully at http://wiki.ps2dev.org/ps3:hardware:remote
There is some code available as part of my python-ps3 project https://sourceforge.net/projects/python-ps3/ that supports both sixaxis motion sensing and the remote, although you currently need to disable hcid to get it running.
I notice there's also some activity on this front on the bluez mailing list, and so new version should support the remote out of the box. |
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Rob_F
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| Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 10:40 pm Post subject: Re: PS3 Bluetooth remote control protocol |
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| ralferoo wrote: | | No need to do sniffing, you can see the data easily using "hcidump -x" |
I had no idea, I have little experience with Bluetooth. Thanks for the tip.
Sweet, thanks. The python script for the remote looks pretty useful too.
| ralferoo wrote: | There is some code available as part of my python-ps3 project https://sourceforge.net/projects/python-ps3/ that supports both sixaxis motion sensing and the remote, although you currently need to disable hcid to get it running.
I notice there's also some activity on this front on the bluez mailing list, and so new version should support the remote out of the box. |
The objective here is to make the PC (then hopefully later the iPaq) pretend to be the remote, rather than read input from the remote. Is that what they're doing? |
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