Sixaxis Controller app lets play games on your phone with your dual shock or sixaxis controller
your cappy needs to be rooted and have a supporting rom with the needed bluetooth protocol
I have tested this app on 2 roms
roms that have the protocol
cynogenmod 7.1 7.0
rom that dont work
apex v9.0
darkys rom v10.2 cappy extreme
directionshttp://www.dancingpixelstudios.com/sixaxiscontroller/instructions.html
apps: https://market.android.com/search?q=sixaxis&so=1&c=apps
paid app free :http://www.filestube.com/ac7494e5551261eb03e9/go.html
video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGulIF85SnM
you can even connect to tv or a projector and play in HD with a HDMI port on most phones (saddly no HDMI port on cappy)
also the controls are premapped or totally customizable
just uses to see if it works on your phone Sixaxis Compatibility Checker
PLEASE TEST THE Sixaxis Controller APP ON YOUR ROM TO HELP BUILD THE LIST
AND HELP DEVS ADD THE CORRECT PROTOCOL INTO THERE ROMS.
JUST RESPOND AND TELL ME IF IT WORKS ON YOUR ROMMMM
I don't think it will work on any roms but aosp ones. I could be wrong?
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Nerz said:
I don't think it will work on any roms but aosp ones. I could be wrong?
Sent from my GT-I9000 using XDA App
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well cynogen mod 7 works. i havent done tuns of testing.
It becomes annyoing having to flash and test every single cappy rom.
That is the main reason why im also asking people to test it using the test app on thier roms post a reply so i can post it in the forum
https://market.android.com/details?...patibilitychecker&feature=more_from_developer
BUT asop or not it doent matter it is just a bluetooth protocol that any custum rom can have.
This looks super cool. I wish I had a playstation. Xbox controllers don't use bluetooth, do they?
Nelsocracy said:
This looks super cool. I wish I had a playstation. Xbox controllers don't use bluetooth, do they?
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im almost certian they use infared. I THINK it would be possible to play with the 360 controller with an ir dongle. sort of like how you can connect your phone and tv and use your phone as a remote. It would need a special app and dongle.
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im almost certian they use infared. I THINK it would be possible to play with the 360 controller with an ir dongle. sort of like how you can connect your phone and tv and use your phone as a remote. It would need a special app and dongle.
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The 360 Control is not IR based. It is RF based, however it is not Bluetooth based, it is proprietary. There is a USB receiver for the controllers but it can not work directly through Bluetooth.
FYI, this has been digested and discussed on many a thread, and just to save everyone a lot of trouble: yes, you must be on CM7 or MIUI to use this. It requires a corrected Bluez bluetooth stack, which only AOSP ROMs have. For Samsung ROMs, the only controller you can use is iControlPad (which you can buy here: http://icontrolpad.com/) to use with the Bluez IME app (from the market).
Rooted my phone and installed Cyanogenmod (the latest version) a few days ago. I fell in love with the theme and don't want to switch back to stock.
However I really miss the Sense TV app, not only for the IR blaster, but the whole TV guide thing where it shows a recommended list and touch on shows/movies So such apps like universal remotes won't cut it.
Does anyone have the apk for the sense tv app, or an alternate with the same experience?
geeibara said:
Rooted my phone and installed Cyanogenmod (the latest version) a few days ago. I fell in love with the theme and don't want to switch back to stock.
However I really miss the Sense TV app, not only for the IR blaster, but the whole TV guide thing where it shows a recommended list and touch on shows/movies So such apps like universal remotes won't cut it.
Does anyone have the apk for the sense tv app, or an alternate with the same experience?
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Sorry the TV app is for sense based roms only. Cyanogenmod doesn't support IR blaster (yet).
That's what makes it a [REQUEST], right?
Ktan188 said:
Sorry the TV app is for sense based roms only. Cyanogenmod doesn't support IR blaster (yet).
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That's what makes it a [REQUEST], right? This is a pretty big hardware feature to just not support....or is this being looked at differently by others?
I've been using Smart IR Blaster, but regretfully it doesn't record any more. :crying:
Consider this a second request.
One of the beautiful features with honor 6 is, that it is equipped with IR receiver and transmitter.
One remote control application came with the phone from Huawei, while a lot of the other IR apps at Google Play does not work on honor 6.
Has anybody found alternative IR apps, that do work on honor 6 ?
Thank you in advance
Harald
hvillemoes said:
One of the beautiful features with honor 6 is, that it is equipped with IR receiver and transmitter.
One remote control application came with the phone from Huawei, while a lot of the other IR apps at Google Play does not work on honor 6.
Has anybody found alternative IR apps, that do work on honor 6 ?
Thank you in advance
Harald
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I'm wondering why do you need another app. The app which came with the phone includes a plethora of devices. And if the device is not listed you can customize the remote for it with the original remote. I haven't tried any other app since the one pre-installed works great for me.
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Hi pl note the link below for IR application for Honor 6. I have tested the app on my phone its a bit slow but works fine. I have used it with Videocon TV
http://forum.xda-developers.com/honor-6/general/huawei-honor-6-india-variant-h60-l04-t2898080/page5
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Zazaremote on the Play Store is compatible with the Honor 6
http://chomikuj.pl/intseed/Android/Huawei+Honor+6/com.tiqiaa.icontrol-2,4707011701.apk
Inbuilt IR app
hvillemoes said:
One of the beautiful features with honor 6 is, that it is equipped with IR receiver and transmitter.
One remote control application came with the phone from Huawei, while a lot of the other IR apps at Google Play does not work on honor 6.
Has anybody found alternative IR apps, that do work on honor 6 ?
Thank you in advance
Harald
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Hi, I am on 380 FW now and I do not have the IR app by default but when I checked System/Apps There is an IR app which was not installed by default along with the supporting SDK app. I installed it and it's working fine. Try it.. :good:
Is it possible for IR to learn from any infrared remote or it has no IR receiver and only IR sending?
Id love to see it working for my tv,AC,garage remote,unbranded stereo...etc
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If you download smart ir remote you can program pronto codes into it which are available all over the place. I did this to get into the service menu of my lg TV.
Which htc do u have with a learning function for IR?
These Third party IR software are more comprehensive than samsung original one?
atype007 said:
Is it possible for IR to learn from any infrared remote or it has no IR receiver and only IR sending?
Id love to see it working for my tv,AC,garage remote,unbranded stereo...etc
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tbh, every tv and almost every other media device i came across, ran fine with the ir of my Tab S 8.4. i had some problem with the air conditioner of my room cause it was General made. and model was old. so i got smart ir and checked the codes online and boom. its working fine
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Which htc do u have with a learning function for IR?
These Third party IR software are more comprehensive than samsung original one?
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HTC m8.
Smart ir is way more comprehensive than the simple samsung job.
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Hi, I just received my new Mi VR headset. I have a Mi5 32g running the official LineageOS 14.1 build.
The companion app for the headset requires the MIUI China ROM 8.3 or newer to run:
(note: XDA forum does not let me post the link to the apk since I m a new user. You can google app.xiaomi and 431493 to find it)
The headset seems rather useless without that app.
I managed to make Google Daydream app work, but the Mi VR controller is not recognized by it, as expected. Furthermore, the Mi VR controller doesn't even connect to Bluetooth - it is supposed to only work within that VR app.
My first question is: ideas on how to hack the app so that it works in LineageOS? Build.prop mods? Apk editions? I tried a few things without luck so far.
Do you guys think there are actual drivers etc in the China ROM that are required for the app to run? If so could they be extracted from the China ROM and installed into the LineageOS?
Finally, what are the chances of making the MI VR controller emulate a daydream controller?
The build quality of this headset is excellent. Best in its class. If we can make it work with our Xiaomi phones it will be a home run.
Thanks!
Federico
To work on making the Mi VR controller work with Google Daydream App, here are two hints:
The emulator apk that allows any phone to emulate a Daydream controller:
Google: daydream + controller + emulator
User that reverse-engineered the Daydream View controller to make it work on an iPhone:
Google: hackernoon + daydream controller + Pisani
(again I can't post urls yet - too new in the forum)
If someone could reverse engineer the Mi VR controller in the same way -which is pretty identical- then we could envision to make it work using parts of the code of the controller-emulator app.
plz
I really, really need this. please tell me if you can get it to work.
when you got daydream to work with the headset do you know if it was using the phone sensors or the built in headset sensors? was daydream working with the phone plugged into the headset or do you have to leave it unconnected?
cheers
PushStartVR said:
I really, really need this. please tell me if you can get it to work.
when you got daydream to work with the headset do you know if it was using the phone sensors or the built in headset sensors? was daydream working with the phone plugged into the headset or do you have to leave it unconnected?
cheers
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Update: Daydream app is working great using another phone with the daydream controller emulator app. Daydream uses the phone sensors, not the headset's. The MI VR controller is not recognized.
I still can't make the MI VR app work.
I got to download from the Xiaomi website the SDK for the MI VR. I wonder if someone could use it to make a "driver" to use the MI VR controller and sensors in Daydream.
Also making the MI VR app work on LineageOS is key!!
A very cool project
Perhaps I should start giving more background here for catching more people's interest.
So first: going to geekbuying (.com), you can get the new Mi VR headset (white, with controller) shipped everywhere for about 70 dollars. You might say "That's more expensive / equally expensive than the Google Daydream View". Yes. But it is about 10 times better, too.
For starters: the Mi VR headset is more or less a copy of the design of the Playstation VR headset. Everything in it cries high quality, and you can use it (personal experience) for long sessions of 20+ minutes without feeling any fatigue or discomfort. It's pretty awesome.
Second: it has a controller just like the Daydream View, but it's a little better thought through (in Daydream View you need to press a button for 2 seconds for the VR experience to center; in the Mi VR it does that with double click which is easier; also, the Mi VR controller has a magnetometer, I'm not sure the Daydream controller has it, and I suspect it can be used to calculate distance from the phone and thus have some sense of movement, which in theory could offer one more degree of freedom - I might be wrong and this might be also available in the Daydream controller, I haven't checked).
But the aspect where the Mi VR headset excels is in its inclusion of native sensors in the headset that have a much higher refresh rate than those typically found in phones. In theory, they provide a much more fluid movement experience in VR.
All that said, the product has officially only launched in China. When you buy it from Geekbuying or similar sites, you will get a box wherein everything is in Chinese, including the manual etc.
As far as I can tell, the Mi VR app, not to be confused with the Mi VR PLAY app, is sort of the epicenter for the use of the headset/controller as they can only be paired through that app. In fact the controller cannot even pair directly through Bluetooth without the app.
The app is not in Google Play Store, it can be downloaded from the Mi Store but it refuses to work on LineageOS and I think it might also don't work in MIUI global ROM (not sure of that). It is made to work on MIUI China Rom.
Last but not least: apps like vRidge and Trinus allow to stream SteamVR games from your computer to your telephone to use it in headsets (it transmits sensor data back to the computer), by simulating a Rift headset.
I've tried this on the Mi5 phone with the Mi VR headset and it is AMAZING (you need to have a direct connection using the phone as hotspot for reducing delay).
And there are a few programmers that have made the Daydream Controller Emulator app on a phone as an emulator of HTC Vibe controllers in SteamVR.
So...we are close to be able to use the actual hardware controllers (Daydream controller, possibly Mi VR controller) and the headsets to play VR games designed originally for Rift or HTC Vibe and have an acceptable experience of them at a fraction of the investment.
To recapitulate, the roadmap to be able to fully enjoy the Mi VR with a Mi phone (like Mi5) is:
1) to somehow make the Mi VR app work with LineageOS (this might simply entail obtaining a proper build.prop file for the China rom, or perhaps is more complex than that and it might entail obtaining some files from the China ROM to be included in the LineageOS system)
2) to manage to build a driver for Windows for the Mi VR controller, so that it can interact with things like SteamVR
3) to manage to somehow make Daydream app recognize the Mi VR controller
4) maybe: to manage to make Daydream app recognize / use the headset's sensors (as opposed to the phone's). Same for vRidge/Trinus
Let me know if anyone would like to collaborate on this.
best!
Federico
how hard is it to get the SDK?
im no dev but I have some skills to follow whats going on.
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Federico.parra said:
Perhaps I should start giving more background here for catching more people's interest.
So first: going to geekbuying (.com), you can get the new Mi VR headset (white, with controller) shipped everywhere for about 70 dollars. You might say "That's more expensive / equally expensive than the Google Daydream View". Yes. But it is about 10 times better, too.
For starters: the Mi VR headset is more or less a copy of the design of the Playstation VR headset. Everything in it cries high quality, and you can use it (personal experience) for long sessions of 20+ minutes without feeling any fatigue or discomfort. It's pretty awesome.
Second: it has a controller just like the Daydream View, but it's a little better thought through (in Daydream View you need to press a button for 2 seconds for the VR experience to center; in the Mi VR it does that with double click which is easier; also, the Mi VR controller has a magnetometer, I'm not sure the Daydream controller has it, and I suspect it can be used to calculate distance from the phone and thus have some sense of movement, which in theory could offer one more degree of freedom - I might be wrong and this might be also available in the Daydream controller, I haven't checked).
But the aspect where the Mi VR headset excels is in its inclusion of native sensors in the headset that have a much higher refresh rate than those typically found in phones. In theory, they provide a much more fluid movement experience in VR.
All that said, the product has officially only launched in China. When you buy it from Geekbuying or similar sites, you will get a box wherein everything is in Chinese, including the manual etc.
As far as I can tell, the Mi VR app, not to be confused with the Mi VR PLAY app, is sort of the epicenter for the use of the headset/controller as they can only be paired through that app. In fact the controller cannot even pair directly through Bluetooth without the app.
The app is not in Google Play Store, it can be downloaded from the Mi Store but it refuses to work on LineageOS and I think it might also don't work in MIUI global ROM (not sure of that). It is made to work on MIUI China Rom.
Last but not least: apps like vRidge and Trinus allow to stream SteamVR games from your computer to your telephone to use it in headsets (it transmits sensor data back to the computer), by simulating a Rift headset.
I've tried this on the Mi5 phone with the Mi VR headset and it is AMAZING (you need to have a direct connection using the phone as hotspot for reducing delay).
And there are a few programmers that have made the Daydream Controller Emulator app on a phone as an emulator of HTC Vibe controllers in SteamVR.
So...we are close to be able to use the actual hardware controllers (Daydream controller, possibly Mi VR controller) and the headsets to play VR games designed originally for Rift or HTC Vibe and have an acceptable experience of them at a fraction of the investment.
To recapitulate, the roadmap to be able to fully enjoy the Mi VR with a Mi phone (like Mi5) is:
1) to somehow make the Mi VR app work with LineageOS (this might simply entail obtaining a proper build.prop file for the China rom, or perhaps is more complex than that and it might entail obtaining some files from the China ROM to be included in the LineageOS system)
2) to manage to build a driver for Windows for the Mi VR controller, so that it can interact with things like SteamVR
3) to manage to somehow make Daydream app recognize the Mi VR controller
4) maybe: to manage to make Daydream app recognize / use the headset's sensors (as opposed to the phone's). Same for vRidge/Trinus
Let me know if anyone would like to collaborate on this.
best!
Federico
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Awesome, didnt know about the steam vr thing. When you were using steamVR did it use the headset sensors?
PushStartVR said:
how hard is it to get the SDK?
im no dev but I have some skills to follow whats going on. [...]
Awesome, didnt know about the steam vr thing. When you were using steamVR did it use the headset sensors?
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Hi! I can't post links here yet (too new a member in the forum) but you can google "dev.xiaomi.com mi vr" and you'll find it/them. There is a generic SDK and then a Unity plugin SDK that apparently is very easy to implement in the personal free version of unity.
There seems to be a procedure involving a Google Form one needs to fill in in order to get a code that, I assume, is necessary to get your apk published within their specific Mi VR market - but I understand that code would not be necessary for testing in a phone.
The website is fully in Chinese - I found that using Google Translator gave me a decent enough translation to follow through.
About SteamVR: both Trinus and vRidge (Riftcat) used the phone sensors, none of them appear to "see" the headset's. There should be a way to expose them on the Android device, and also I would assume there should be some modification made to the Trinus/vRidge client Android apps so that they send that sensor data as opposed to the Mi5 sensor data. Not that easy but perhaps not that difficult, I don't know.
Same applies for Daydream app.
Let me know if you get anything to work, the headset is really awesome - even the rudimentary experience of using it with Daydream app with another phone as controller (emulator) has been really cool!
Hey there!
I´m using the Mi Vr app, and everything its in chinnese, so I´m willing to use the daydream apk.
I´ve already installed it, but when I open it I need the controller, but the problem is; I can´t connect the controller through bluetooth, it just appears to be connected when I open the MiVR app.
I´m thinking that maybe, I could open the MiVR app, so the controller gets connected, and then frezze it and open the DayDream app, and see if it works, although I dont think so.
Have you get anything new on how to use it??
best regards
@Federico.parra How did you manage installing the daydream app on lineage?
Hi, maybe this interest you, some open source software and APIs unlike xiaomi's
http://openhmd.net
Received my mi VR today. Flashed xiaomi.eu MIUI 8 to test. In MIUI you can use the headset only with miVR app. There appears a screen in the phone even when you are in another app and even if miVR app ist not Installed. Also app translator doesn't work when using the miVR app. Too sad there is only the chinese app
QR code
Federico.parra said:
Update: Daydream app is working great using another phone with the daydream controller emulator app. Daydream uses the phone sensors, not the headset's. The MI VR controller is not recognized.
I still can't make the MI VR app work.
I got to download from the Xiaomi website the SDK for the MI VR. I wonder if someone could use it to make a "driver" to use the MI VR controller and sensors in Daydream.
Also making the MI VR app work on LineageOS is key!!
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Which QR code do you use to calibrate the MIVR for daydream?
Mi VR is not working on my Mi 5 with MIUI 8 Global ROM
unicycler said:
Received my mi VR today. Flashed xiaomi.eu MIUI 8 to test. In MIUI you can use the headset only with miVR app. There appears a screen in the phone even when you are in another app and even if miVR app ist not Installed. Also app translator doesn't work when using the miVR app. Too sad there is only the chinese app
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Were you able to use the Mi VR headset? I have a Mi5 with Global ROM MIUI 8.1.4.0 but when I plug the phone to the VR I got a black screen saying that I have to unplug the phone.
I tried to install the Chinese ROM but I couldn't.
rodry15 said:
Were you able to use the Mi VR headset? I have a Mi5 with Global ROM MIUI 8.1.4.0 but when I plug the phone to the VR I got a black screen saying that I have to unplug the phone.
I tried to install the Chinese ROM but I couldn't.
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Habe you installed the app?
On xiaomi.eu ROM I've been able to run the app and use Mi VR, yes.
unicycler said:
Habe you installed the app?
On xiaomi.eu ROM I've been able to run the app and use Mi VR, yes.
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I've download the apk and ran the installation but I don't see the app logo. I'll try with that rom you mentioned, probably does not work with the global rom (it's the official one)
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I've download the apk and ran the installation but I don't see the app logo. I'll try with that rom you mentioned, probably does not work with the global rom (it's the official one)
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Thats weird. Where did you get the apk from?
I've also installed it on lineage, it won't run, but app symbol is there and also should be there on global miui.
I installed last MIUI Global dev ROM and installed the App (downloaded directly from Xiaomi market) and it works fine, EXCEPT that the controller does not work properly: its buttons work fine, but the pointer does not move when I move the controller around. It's not a pairing issue, as in one particular game (a paper airplane flying through the mountains) moving the controller does move the plane...it seems like a weird software issue that makes me think that only China version of the ROM has been thoroughly tested with Mi VR and that support in the Global dev ROM is untested / limited.
Does anybody else had the same experience with the controller not moving the pointer in menus etc?
Also, for those that have it working with Global Dev ROM, any clues on how to make this work on LineageOS, perhaps moving a few folder from MIUI DEV GLOBAL to the LineageOS system files?
Yes, same here. Didn't try the paper game yet, but it doesn't react to the moves of the controller. Does it have to outside from games? I'm on latest xiaomi.eu ROM (MIUI 8.3)
unicycler said:
Habe you installed the app?
On xiaomi.eu ROM I've been able to run the app and use Mi VR, yes.
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Did remote and headset button worked for you?
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Did remote and headset button worked for you?
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Yes it did.