Voyee P3 controller issue

[Blessed Mother]

Hi all. I bought a third-party PS3 controller from a company called Voyee. I am trying to customize the controller to have all the buttons work properly in big picture mode, but it's not working. The only buttons that work are pressing the left joystick, which confirms; the right joystick which cancels; and a couple of the up and down arrow buttons just cycle through the friends list and stuff. I don't get it.

Do I have to download software or something?

Thanks!

[tintingaroo]

Check out this post:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/353370/discussions/0/5706632549998146741/#c3279192886588121616

It was in response to a user who found their PS3 controller detected by Steam but (totally?) unresponsive, don't know if theirs was a Sony controller. If you don't see Define Layout* then go for the old PSNow route and see how the Voyee goes with the Sony driver.

*Steam > Settings > Controller > General Controller Settings (or in Big Picture mode: Settings > Controller Settings). If the controller is detected, select it and check if the Define Layout option is shown next to the Back button.

For another user, it seems like Steam was not recognising their controller (not sure if they just meant unresponsive or not detected, nor if theirs was a Sony or 3rd party controller). They had success with a different driver.
https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/1/3279193518791241606/

[Blessed Mother]

Thank you. I managed to get it working via the define layout option.

[tintingaroo]

thanks for the info.

[Blessed Mother]

Originally posted by tintingaroo:

thanks for the info.

Thank you.

I did notice recently that the controller's vibration does not work, even though the product's description says it has that component in the controller. Is there a setting or something in steam I need to turn on? Thank you.

[tintingaroo]

The quick test: Go to Controller Settings > enable PlayStation Configuration Support > select the controller. Choose Identify if it shows up (would be next to Calibrate button). The controller should rumble.
I don't think you'll get the Identify option though.

If no Identify button, try this process:

Run dxdiag (DirectX Diagnostic Tool): Press Windows key + R, type dxdiag, press Enter.

In the tool go to Input tab, and note the Vendor ID and Product ID for the controller.
The VID PID Sony PS3 controllers use is 0x054C 0x0268, yours may use the same.


Close Steam.
Navigate to the Steam installation directory > Config folder > open config.vdf with Notepad/other text editor.

Search for SDL_GamepadBind. You should see "SDL_GamepadBind" followed by it's mapping string, e.g.

"SDL_GamepadBind" "03000000de280000ff11000000000000,Steam Virtual Gamepad,a:b0,b:b1,back:b6,dpdown:h0.4,dpleft:h0.8,dpright:h0.2,dpup:h0.1,leftshoulder:b4,leftstick:b8,lefttrigger:+a2,leftx:a0,lefty:a1,rightshoulder:b5,rightstick:b9,righttrigger:-a2,rightx:a3,righty:a4,start:b7,x:b2,y:b3,platform:Windows,"

After the closing " of the mapping string, insert a new line and enter:
"controller_hid_ps4" "VID PID"
Replace "VID PID" with what your controller uses (e.g. "0x054C 0x0268")

Things''ll look like:

"SDL_GamepadBind" "03000000de280000ff11000000000000,Steam Virtual Gamepad,a:b0,b:b1,back:b6,dpdown:h0.4,dpleft:h0.8,dpright:h0.2,dpup:h0.1,leftshoulder:b4,leftstick:b8,lefttrigger:+a2,leftx:a0,lefty:a1,rightshoulder:b5,rightstick:b9,righttrigger:-a2,rightx:a3,righty:a4,start:b7,x:b2,y:b3,platform:Windows,"
"controller_hid_ps4" "0x054C 0x0268"

Save and close the file. Start Steam. In Controller Settings the controller should be considered as a PS4 controller. Do the stuff from the top and see if it rumbles. If it does, try out a game.

[Blessed Mother]

Wow, good stuff. Thank you.

Welp, adding that line of code definitely made it to be considered as a PS4 controller, and the identify button appeared, but when I clicked on it there's still no rumble. I guess the controller's rumble is just not working.

One strange thing too is that when I go to the controller settings in big picture mode, the controller is acting as if the up arrow is perpetually held down. Also, the controller's settings don't work properly anymore.

If it helps, here is what I have in that config file:

"SDL_GamepadBind" "03000000de280000ff11000000000000,Steam Virtual Gamepad,a:b0,b:b1,back:b6,dpdown:h0.4,dpleft:h0.8,dpright:h0.2,dpup:h0.1,leftshoulder:b4,leftstick:b8,lefttrigger:+a2,leftx:a0,lefty:a1,rightshoulder:b5,rightstick:b9,righttrigger:-a2,rightx:a3,righty:a4,start:b7,x:b2,y:b3,platform:Windows
,platform:Windows
030000004c0500006802000000000000,PS3 Controller,a:b2,b:b1,back:b9,dpdown:h0.4,dpleft:h0.8,dpright:h0.2,dpup:h0.1,guide:b12,leftshoulder:b6,leftstick:b10,lefttrigger:a3~,leftx:a0,lefty:a1,rightshoulder:b7,rightstick:b11,righttrigger:a4~,rightx:a2,righty:a5,start:b8,x:b3,y:b0,platform:Windows
03000000de280000ff11000000007701,Steam Virtual Gamepad,a:b0,b:b1,x:b2,y:b3,back:b6,start:b7,leftstick:b8,rightstick:b9,leftshoulder:b4,rightshoulder:b5,dpup:b10,dpdown:b12,dpleft:b13,dpright:b11,leftx:a1,lefty:a0~,rightx:a3,righty:a2~,lefttrigger:a4,righttrigger:a5,platform:Windows"
"controller_hid_ps4" "0x054C 0x0268"
"WebStorage"

"WebStorage" is the start of the next line of code.

[tintingaroo]

I would think the controller does have rumble. Could just be "proper" PS3 controllers don't work with controller_hid_ps4. I have an MSI GC20 that has a PS3 mode and works with controller_hid_ps4, but some things are different: it doesn't have the Sony VID PID, nor does it have the gyro, the mapping is different to the Voyee. The mapping of the Voyee matches the official PS device.

Really, I don't know if a Sony PS3 controller would or wouldn't work properly with this, or that the Voyee doesn't spoof the genuine controller closely enough to work or does it "too well" and so doesn't work...

Anyhow onto the next step, see if the controller works with the Sony driver.

Close Steam, remove the line from config.vdf, save and close.
Install PSNow from the link they posted:
https://www.reddit.com/r/PSNow/comments/lpw4in/psnow_controller_drivers_not_installing_1140/
See if you get Identify & rumble when PS Config Support is enabled and how the controls are.

If things are still busted then I'm thinking we check the controller is using (or trying to use) the Sony driver. Then there is another driver I read someone had success with + the Voyee.