Weird issue with Brook controller converter

[Xjph]

Having a really strange issue with a Brook PS3 to Xbox One Super Converter.[www.brookaccessory.com]

Yes, I know the Link has native support for PS3 controllers, but my PS3 arcade stick[www.amazon.com] is a Gordian knot of compatibility issues and does not work with the Link. It works with some, but not all, PCs depending on undocumented peculiarities of the USB host it is plugged into, so I got the converter to solve the unreliability of connecting it to a PC, and for that purpose it works great. It shows up as a Xbox One controller and works perfectly.

I had also expected it, as a bonus, to work with the Steam Link, since it appears to the PC to be a normal Xbox One controller plugged in to a USB port. Instead it just does nothing. No controller is detected by the Link at all, and the LED on the converter does not light up at all when plugged in. On top of that, the converter then stops working completely, no matter what it's plugged into, for the next 3-4 hours.

Plugging the converter into the Link's USB ports kills the converter temporarily.

This is really weird behaviour, and pretty a pretty niche use case, so I'm not really confident about getting a solution here, but at the very least maybe some frustrated person in the future will find my post and learn that they have not actually ruined their converter by trying it with the Link.

[[PWT] Snufkin]

same problem here. got my old te stick to work on pc with the brook adapter but it doesnt work with the steam link. it's really strange. thought it would work just as a x-input device.

[Xjph]

Never found a solution to this, and my converter eventually broke while using it with my PC, so I never got the chance to look more closely. Focusattack refused my warranty replacement because I had plugged it in to an "unsupported device", as if USB ports on other devices are magically different.

My final solution was just to buy a newer stick that was natively xinput, which kind of sucked, but whatever.