Way/Program to Display Lighthouse Tracking?

[[TJR] Admiral Y-11]

So, over the past few months, I've been having a never-ending series of problems involved with my SteamVR setup not playing nice with full-body tracking equipment.

All of this had worked fine up until a few months ago, when everything went to ♥♥♥♥, and I have no idea what broke, or if anything DID break at all and it's something simple that I've overlooked.

The only two things that DID happen, is #1, I installed a better router (A Netgear Nighthawk router) and linked a new controller, as the old one had broken beyond repair.

Now, I had done EVERYTHING I could possibly think of to fix this:
- Unbound and rebound everything several times over
- Tried resetting the base stations via the console
- REPLACING the base stations (Vive 1.0 to Index 2.0)
- Replacing the FTB (Jury-rigged Vive Wands to Tundra tracking pucks)
- Replacing the USB hub that my bluetooth was plugged into (unpowered ♥♥♥♥♥♥ one to powered - somewhat-less-♥♥♥♥♥♥ one)
- Replacing the bluetooth dongles themselves (2 Steam dongles & a jury-rigged dongle for the Tundra 3-way dongle)
- Removed all old controller files from Steam's config storage

I have done quite literally EVERYTHING I CAN POSSIBLY THINK OF to fix this issue. I have not fixed it. I am driving myself up the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ WALL trying to fix it. I'm furious as I'm writing this, because it's been such an aggravating problem that's cost me now $700+ in attempts to FIX the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ thing.

I THINK (because I'm not even ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ sure of my IT skill anymore) that I have it narrowed it down to one of two things. Either, A, the new base stations don't like surfaces that the old ones did and I have to do a better job of fixing that, or, B, the new router is powerful enough that it's messing with the Bluetooth signal, in which case this has gotten MUCH worse.

I would like to test A, but the issue is, to my knowledge, I have no way to test this. I wanted specifically a program that would map out the tracking lasers of the base stations, possibly map out any reflections if they crop up. I don't even know if that exists, but if it did, it would REALLY help me out here. Does anyone know if such a thing exists, and if not, how exactly to figure it out?

[SiEgE]

Hmm.. Interesting.
What is the issue exactly? You didn't mention it at all, you only said that it "went to ♥♥♥♥" and "it didn't play nice". Is something wrong with tracking? Like lags or sudden "losses of accuracy"? "runaway" controllers?

I have what I think is something similar:
- My trackers would suddenly stop tracking accurately, as if they've stopped "telling" their position for a brief moment. They'd jerk/dribble for a bit, change their axis and position to some odd spot, "float away". Sometimes it is so bad it messes up with what I'm doing. I'm seriously considering a non-tracked, estimated trackers, but they also do very poorly, losing wifi connection, having big lags in SlimeVR, being super slow, glitchy, laggy and wholely inaccurate.
- Previously, I was able to "pinpoint" my issue towards one specific base station, because I've believed that I had more issues when I was close to it and in its direct view, but replacing helped it briefly, and what I see currently is the issue "roaming" from one base station to another. I know the tech is not ideal, and there is never "the perfect" balance between accuracy and lack of glitches and issues, but I'd like to learn about all the possible ways to fix/control/prevent it.

[SiEgE]

As for the title:
I wonder if you can use a photocam with shutter settings like how they use then when they make the "moving stars" photos. I'm pretty sure even phone cams can see the laser glow of base stations, but I wonder if that glow is strong enough to be seen reflected off other things.

As for Wifi's strength - I do believe there are ways to use your phone to "see" how strong a wifi signal is. If your router have several "horns", some routers allow you to unscrew them, and that might reduce the force of the signal.

Bluetooth and Wifi are known to be fighting each other. Even several wifi signals can make it an issue coexisting with each other.

[Bob Loblaw]

Originally posted by TJR Admiral Y-11:

- REPLACING the base stations (Vive 1.0 to Index 2.0)

When you did this, you increased the laser sweep rate from 60 hz (two @ 30Hz alternating) to two base stations each at 100Hz and not alternating. I don't know for a fact that this increases USB traffic, but it sure isn't going to decrease it. A simple way to test with less traffic on your USB would be to run with one 1.0 base station in mode b... this would run at 30Hz. Testing one base station at a time is also a great way to determine if reflections are your problem.