{"id":6220,"date":"2018-09-12T23:53:18","date_gmt":"2018-09-13T03:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/?p=6220"},"modified":"2018-09-16T16:53:42","modified_gmt":"2018-09-16T20:53:42","slug":"why-am-i-not-allowed-to-have-nice-things-wireless-madness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/2018\/09\/12\/why-am-i-not-allowed-to-have-nice-things-wireless-madness\/","title":{"rendered":"Why am I not allowed to have nice things?! (Wireless madness)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the whole TV financial fiasco soon to be dealt with, I can go back to screaming at my PS4 controller.. of why it refuses to stay connected to my computer via Bluetooth.<br \/>\nYesterday, I was shaving my beard off (to prepare for that guy to show up), I somehow nearly sliced my left index finger with the blade (it least it feels like a deep cut). Didn&#8217;t even know I had cut myself until I saw blood.<br \/>\nManaged to stop it ten minutes later and put a bandage on it. I&#8217;ll live (and hopefully my skin will heal it), but I&#8217;ve been semi-struggling to do mundane tasks (such as typing, and moving around in VRChat). Kovo suggested that I use my controller (since he often uses an XBox controller), so I tried to do it; testing the Bluetooth 4.0 adapter in the process.<\/p>\n<p>And.. I am <strong>not<\/strong> happy with the results. It either loses tracking of the controller (every 3-5 minutes), or.. has defaulted to just flat-out saying &#8220;I give up, I&#8217;m not going to connect. Fuck you&#8221;<br \/>\nThis is painting a very grim, non-promising picture of getting VR. This is literally what every wireless mouse has done to me; they lose connection and eventually &#8216;die&#8217;, for no fucking reason. So why would the hand trackers of a VR set, be any different?<br \/>\nI have desperately looking for a fix, one of them saying &#8220;your router&#8217;s WiFi could be messing with the signal&#8221;. But if I had just scrolled down instead of going through hell and back through Spectrum&#8217;s website, trying to find a fucking way to access my router&#8217;s settings (and also trying to find the user\/password for it)&#8230;<br \/>\n&#8230;that it&#8217;s <em>not<\/em> true, and one&#8217;s WiFi doesn&#8217;t work like that. Ergo, it&#8217;s why I didn&#8217;t tell the tech guy about the &#8220;problem&#8221; with my router.<\/p>\n<p>So if it&#8217;s not my router causing the issue.. then what the fuck <em>IS IT THEN?!<\/em> Is it the tower? Is it the way I have my monitors setup?? TELL ME!! *yelling at controller* WHY IN THE FUCK WON&#8217;T YOU STAY CONNECTED?!?!<br \/>\nI cannot blame the adapter. It&#8217;s brand new. It&#8217;s just something with my desktop setup that it doesn&#8217;t like. Or, it&#8217;s just not possible to connect a controller wirelessly to a PC.<br \/>\nI thought it just might be Steam&#8217;s Big Picture Mode causing the issue, so I tried DS4Windows&#8230; it too loses connection with the controller. As soon as I move around in VRChat, instant RIP goes the controller! No reason.<br \/>\n&#8212;<br \/>\nThe only thing I can think of, is to get another USB 2.0 to Mini-USB 2.0 cable (similar to the one that came with my PS4). That way I won&#8217;t have that fucking issue, and still be able to use my controller.<br \/>\nThat, or maybe the controller is going bad&#8230; yet it works just fine on my PS4 (wirelessly). And that&#8217;s what I don&#8217;t get. My PS4 has a lot of crap infront of it, yet the controller gets much better tracking than connected to my computer.<br \/>\n&#8212;<br \/>\nEDIT: Read someone saying that the controller might work better if it&#8217;s fully charged (via phone charger). I&#8217;ve tried using it before, and it didn&#8217;t seem to respond right. But this time, it&#8217;s working fine (with the slowly pulsing yellow &#8216;charging&#8217; light showing up).<br \/>\nHopefully it&#8217;ll respond better, once it&#8217;s done.<br \/>\n&#8212;<br \/>\nEDIT2: Apparently since March 2017, the original creator of DS4Windows (a program similar to one I used to play LEGO Worlds with my controller) has stopped updating the software. There&#8217;s been multiple reports of issues with Windows 10&#8217;s Creator Update, which might explain why my controller won&#8217;t stay connected.<br \/>\nSomeone who goes by the name of &#8216;Ryochan7&#8217; has forked it in Github, and <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/Ryochan7\/DS4Windows\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">has been updating it<\/a> ever since.<br \/>\nThis is highly promising.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the whole TV financial fiasco soon to be dealt with, I can go back to screaming at my PS4 controller.. of why it refuses to stay connected to my computer via Bluetooth. Yesterday, I was shaving my beard off &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/2018\/09\/12\/why-am-i-not-allowed-to-have-nice-things-wireless-madness\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6220"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6236,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6220\/revisions\/6236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}