Comment on Steam Controller: Dropped and doubled inputs?! Bad connection?!
Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 6 days ago
They’ve released a couple firmware/steam updates for people having doubled inputs, so definitely make sure you have those all installed. A new firmware update for the controller was released last night.
You shouldn’t be having any signal issues at that range, so you either have something defective or some really bad signal interference. I’m leaning towards something being defective, because my puck doesn’t have line of sight, is immediately next to a router and a bunch of bluetooth devices, and hasn’t had any connection issues. You also mentioned the issues happening while wired, which definitely suggests a controller issue and not a connection problem.
mrmaplebar@fedia.io 5 days ago
I guess I'm up to date, though it's not really clear...
The first time I plugged in the puck, Steam recognized it and prompted me to update the puck firmware. Ok, that went fine.
But then it told me to unplug the puck and plug in the controller, at which point the controller was not automatically recognized and I had no way to proceed.
I ended up quitting out of that menu and finding a button to update the controller in the general settings menu, after which that button simply disappeared (?) or something...
I've tried that one. You click "start" and it spins for 2-3 seconds before going right back to saying "start". It's unclear to me what, if anything, it does.
Yeah... I've sent in a Steam support ticket.
I'm trying to keep my cool about it, but I'd be lying if I said I wasn't pretty annoyed at how shoddy this thing is given my long standing support of Valve hardware, the long delays, $100 price tags, struggling to buy it immediately, and now it being sold out.
It's frustrating that this thing doesn't just work.
rtxn@lemmy.world 5 days ago
You can force-flash the firmware from developer mode: lemmy.world/post/46802249
If the process fails, try another USB cable.