What do we need to get the samsung odyssey plus working with the vive controllers?

john2910 · November 25, 2018, 5:30pm

what do we need to get the samsung odyssey plus working with the vive controllers?

Do we need the vive headset also or can we do it with the lighthouses only?

Or can we use vive usb dongles?

And does it work perfect?

Heliosurge · November 25, 2018, 5:37pm

Probably need dongles & i believe you have to edit a config file to use wands without a headset.

@crony is one a likely a few who would likely know steps.

spamenigma · November 25, 2018, 5:47pm

I became aware of this the other day, really interesting… and you were part of that discussion? @rothman gave you a few links to all info!? https://community.openmr.ai/t/mrtv-preliminary-samsung-odyssey-review-including-pimax-comparison-pics/10461/146?u=spamenigma

So as a reminder you either need to use a VIVE headset as the receiver. ‘or’ use 2 USB dongles that come with VIVE pucks which are obviously not as common for people to have so as an alternative you can use 2 vive controller dongles and change the firmware.

Dongles available here: Welcome to Steam

john2910 · November 25, 2018, 6:15pm

so if we get the usb dongles from the link you give @spamenigma and flash the firmware(wich firmware and how by the way?)

And edit some config files,and then it all works 100% even if we do room scale ingame?

spamenigma · November 25, 2018, 7:13pm

The flashing of firmware is mentioned in the first link he gave:

github.com/cntools/libsurvive

Hardware to connect directly to VR Controllers (ie without Vive)?

opened 10:40PM - 21 Jun 17 UTC

closed 05:01PM - 04 Mar 20 UTC

mungewell

Hi, recently found the project and, although I don't own a Vive, I think what yo…u are doing is really cool (and interesting)....enough of the worship :-) In your recent 'package from Alan' video you showed some USB dongles which look a lot like the one shipped with the regular/non-VR controllers. I was able to to confirm that those contain the nRF24L01 (just like the Vive headset), and also remember something about the original controllers being shipped with a dongle to enable additional controllers to be attached to the PC. Found the following page which confirms this, and also details the f/w updating procedure. https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/SteamVR/HowTo_Update_Firmware Perhaps the regular controller dongles can be re-flashed the same way to enable VR controllers without the headset? The Lighthouse base stations and VR Controllers are available as separate items, from the steam store. There is some documentation of the VR-Controller HID protocols here: https://github.com/nairol/LighthouseRedox/blob/master/docs/USB%20Protocol.md#wireless-controller-dongle I also found this project which has reversed some of the protocols used for the non-VR controller: https://dennis-hamester.gitlab.io/scraw/protocol/

I checked the location and firmware is there for me.