Pairing OSX with Dualschock SixAxis

[avermeulen]

I am trying to pair my DualSchock SixAxis control with OSX - I followed these steps (https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4476914?tstart=0) that looked promising, but it keeps on prompting me to enter a pairing code for bluetooth. Which I can't do...

How do you normally go about to pair the controller with OSX 10.8.4?

[rdepena]

That guide seems pretty spot on although the author rambles on a bit, I would say:

Connect the controller to the PC via USB,
Press the PSX button for 11 seconds or so,
Make sure no console is currently paired with it (a ps3 in the same room can start connecting to it)
Press it again for 1 second (it should begin blinking all 4 lights),
look for it under bluetooth menu and connect to it,
unplug it.

I have access to a mac that has never been paired to a controller before, I will do that later today and see if the above description holds true or if I missed something.

[avermeulen]

Thanks for your reply and offer to try it on another mac.

I tried this one as well - still no luck: http://www.mactrast.com/2013/01/how-to-use-a-playstation-3-controller-with-your-mac/ :-(

I had it at times that the controller is in the bluetooth setup and is not prompting me for a bluetooth pairing code and it cotrnol is seemingly connected to my mac... but then I can't connect to it from node. The discoveryHelp script returns - 'cannot open device with vendor id 0x54c and product id 0x268' - so something is not right. I am not trusting the pairing.

People say that the pairing works better in Mavericks.

[rdepena]

Tried on the other mac and did the steps I described and was able to pair, one thing I did notice and this is a problem people have described before: the controller will not send any data once paired until you press the psx button (but you should not get any errors if you are at that point).

you can check the connected devices by commenting out this line on the device discovery help file:

"var controller = new HID.HID(1356, 616);"

it did not help that the computer had maverics so I did not get your experience.

[avermeulen]

Ok, thanks I will keep you posted.

Hopefully I'll get it working soon. I really appreciate your support in
this.

On 22 July 2014 04:20, Ricardo de Peña notifications@github.com wrote:

Tried on the other mac and did the steps I described and was able to pair,
one thing I did notice and this is a problem people have described before:
the controller will not send any data once paired until you press the psx
button (but you should not get any errors if you are at that point).

you can check the connected devices by commenting out this line on the
device discovery help file:

"var controller = new HID.HID(1356, 616);"

it did not help that the computer had maverics so I did not get your
experience.

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