SteamVR-Dongle-Flash VS OpenVR-AdvancedSettings

/u/ykeara has a guide over here that should cover it if the nrf24lu1p's bootloader/nvram is programmed with something valve's flashing utility will recognize as a proper steam controller dongle with the right id.

The way to revert that firmware may also help. See this issue or these more thorough instructions.

Find somebody with a Steam Controller, offer to buy them the cheap $4 dongles in exchange for their original dongle, and then flash the firmware to turn them into VR dongles.

I haven't purchased one myself but I've saved this link from an old thread. Same with this page on flashing firmware but I personally haven't done it.

If you can get your hands on some Steam Controller dongles for any cheaper, you can flash a different firmware to convert them to SteamVR use. There are super cheap third party steam controller dongles for sale, and although unlikely to work, you might be able to buy those to swap for the original dongles of anyone you know.

i have an old wireless mouse receiver but not the mouse, can i use https://github.com/ykeara/SteamVR-Dongle-Flash and change a few lines to make the receiver a watchman dongle? yes i know i can buy some but for $40 each.... yea na

The actual dongle is should be the same as the Steam Watchmen dongle ( 24LU1P, this is the 32kb version ), and some comments on this tool suggest it should be able to flash it the same way.

You need to get some steam controller dongles and flash them so that Steam recognizes them as SteamVR controller/tracker dongles instead. I already had 1 steam controller I wasn't using so I just needed to find one more so I did that, it's harder to find them now I got lucky with offer up and bought a controller bundle for $20. https://www.virtualbuilds.com/product-page/usb-wireless-receiver-dongle Don't know if that one would work but it should. Then you need to flash it with the instructions included here: https://github.com/ykeara/SteamVR-Dongle-Flash

Yep! Just be sure to flash them with the watchman firmware: https://github.com/ykeara/SteamVR-Dongle-Flash

Thank you for this! I am familiar with Steam Depot and rolling back updates, but when I looked into it for SteamVR, it seemed like it required several Depots and I wasn't willing to go that ham into it just yet (before asking for help). Luckily my problem was fixed by simply removing OVRAS, but maybe your solution will help someone else, so I very much appreciate the effort you put into your answer as well!

VAFS Redux works well in VR in my experience and you don't need to use quick slots for activation since you can send keyboard hotkeys in VR using OpenVR2Key or OpenVR-AdvancedSettings.

Changing the Y axis here: https://github.com/OpenVR-Advanced-Settings/OpenVR-AdvancedSettings/raw/master/docs/screenshots/OffsetPage.png

For Steam you could probably use an Overlay app. Examples of this include https://github.com/dantman/elite-vr-cockpit, https://github.com/OpenVR-Advanced-Settings/OpenVR-AdvancedSettings and https://github.com/pottedmeat7/OpenVR-WalkInPlace (or Natural Locomotion)

I'm curious what you mean by MixedVR Manager is broken. After reading a lot of github it is sounding like the SteamVR room setup loop may be a bug / problem with OVR Advanced Settings...

I don't think OpenVR Advanced Settings does exactly what you're asking but you might be able to tweak it a bit to get what you want.

https://github.com/OpenVR-Advanced-Settings/OpenVR-AdvancedSettings/blob/master/docs/SteamVRInputGuide.md one guide for SteamVR's Input

"OVR Advanced Settings" Steam VR overlay (for moving perspective like your height under "Offsets" > Move Space [X,Y up-down, and Z]) - through Steam download (I use this one, it's kept up-to-date): https://store.steampowered.com/app/1009850/OVR_Advanced_Settings/ Or alternatively not through Steam (find the Installer under Assets to download): https://github.com/OpenVR-Advanced-Settings/OpenVR-AdvancedSettings/releases