Ability to pass virtual hmd ids and PSMove controller ids, not one exclusively

[renatopmestre]

Hey, @HipsterSloth first of all you are doing a great work with this!

I'm trying to use 2 PSMove controllers + 1 virtual hmd with freepie.
-1 virtual hmd with freepie: Check!
-2 PSMove controllers with freepie: Check!

-A combination of the two above: data is mixed.
hmd gets id0 and one controller gets id0.
freepieIO0 gets mixed data
freepieio1 gets some data from one controller
freepieIO2 gets nothing (tried two freepiebridges, 1 for 2 controllers, 1 for hmd)

Tried to add more virtual hmds in %appdata% so I could use maybe hmd id2 to circumvent ids0 and 1 being already in use by the controllers. Psmoveservice crashes. Seems only one virtual hmd can be active at a time.

This time I tried 1 virtual hmd0 (id0) and the controller id1, so they dont mix ( I opened two instances of freepiebridge). No luck.

My idea was using two PSMove controllers and 1 ping pong ball for head tracking. The rest of the rig + steamvr ir working, the way freepiebridge sends the ids to freepie is the only thing in the way.

Is there any advice you can give me?
I have oculus go, and i'm using freepie scripts that support the OGo controller natively through ALVR, and support PSMove controller through the freepiebridge.
Thank you

[HipsterSloth]

I think this is yet another reason I need to make a proper psmove plugin for FreePIE. The existing PSMoveFreePIE bridge is using a generic data source that is pretty restrictive. I've a proper plugin existed this wouldn't be an issue. It's something I want to look into soon.

In the meantime I would ask the google group and see if anyone has some advice for your situation. I'm not much of an expert with FreePIE based setups at the moment:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/psmoveservice

I really need to look into OGo style setups using ALVR though. That's a really compelling use case.

[maurixyz]

Hi, I'm in the same situation and I am having the same problem of renatopmestre. I ask @renatopmestre and @HipsterSloth and anyone else if a solution has been found or if there is a way to give to the virtual HMD an ID of 3 or higher. Thanks in advance to those who will answer me.

[HipsterSloth]

@maurixyz I don't have an immediate solution for you yet, but I am working on integrating FreePIE support into a new front end of PSMoveSteamVRBridge that give you more control over how controller and virtual HMD data get's routed to FreePIE:

As soon as I have a build that is ready for testing I'll make a post. It's going to take me a bit though as there is still a fair bit of work left.

[maurixyz]

@HipsterSloth thank you for your work, I hope that you will find a solution to this problem.

[stickman89]

Really interested in hearing the progress on this! This could well be the answer to the query I sent you @HipsterSloth . All the best.