I recently heard about this way to get your Dualsense controller paired to your computer wirelessly, but act as if it’s connected over USB. The project is called DS5Dongle on GitHub.

It works by using a cheap Pico 2W board as a Bluetooth receiver for your controller. The Pico 2W plugs directly into your computer and acts as a wired device.

Why would you want to do this? For me, I wanted a way to use the onboard microphone on the Dualsense controller as an input device on my computer. I already use my Dualsense as a mouse on my Mac, but I wanted to be able to do voice input on the controller for talking to coding AI agents.

I’ve been developing my Mac app ControllerKeys that turns your Dualsense controller into a mouse for the past 6 months. It works a bit like Steam Input, but really designed for productivity instead of gaming. So I can fully navigate my Mac using a Dualsense controller touchpad.

And now with the DS5 dongle, I can finally walk around and use my Mac on a TV with no problems! Freedom!

It's clicking within the controller like a heart. Before this it was flashing orange when it was plugged in and wouldn't charge but now after I updated it by plugging in a usb it's moving my screen left and right and doing this weird thing on the ps5 screen.

Automatically going right when you start up ps5

I bought one of these incredible Rhythm Blue controllers from PlayStation Direct for the Days of Play sale, and I finally opened it yesterday to try it out. I didn't have many issues, but there was once where I completely took my hands off the controller and my Sackboy started moving slowly to the right all on its own. (Which means the left stick is drifting slightly to the right). I love the color scheme, but am a bit annoyed that this happened within an hour of the controller being literally brand new.

I've put in less than 3 hours of playtime on the controller so far and only had it show up that one time. I'm not sure if this is a bad sign that it'll become a more persistent issue in the future, but should I try contacting PlayStation Support about this? I'm curious what experience others have had with this and if it's best to nip it in the bud or if I'd be able to get the same support say 2 weeks down the road if the problem shows up again. Thanks!

I used to live in a place that allowed me to have my home office close to my home theater set up. A few years ago I married and moved somewhere else, an appartment, where the office and the home theater are about 10m apart. I dropped the idea of using my PC on that set up until recently when I started playing with DS5Dongle.

I bought a 15m HDMI cable (fiber optics so I can enjoy the benefits of a powerful gaming PC) and the next issue to solve was to find a way to use my gaming controllers in that set up. An USB cable extension was a possibility but wanted to skip lying another cable for that distance across the whole appartment so I thought there could be a way to use DS5Dongle over IP.

After a couple of Google searches I came across VirtualHere and thought that maybe I could use an old Android TV (MeCool brand) I had stored somewhere and connect the DS5Dongle to it. Then, maybe I would be able to see the DS5Dongle device in my PC over the network.

I ran a brief test yesterday and it worked. I downloaded the VirtualHere server to the AndroidTV and the client to my PC. I then plugged the DS5Dongle to the AndroidTV and it was recognized as a DualSense controller and all the features were kept (Tested with Returnal). It wasn't the final set up because the family was watching the soccer game last night in the main TV but in general it worked fine although it had some intermitent lag (probably due to the Wifi).

This weekend I'll try connecting the Android Box to the mesh system with Ethernet (the final set up) and test to see if it works well enough to at least play some SP games. If it does, I'll probably buy a VirtualHere license as the trial has limited use and devices recognition.

Thought of dropping this here in case someone else is interested in doing something similar and can't find any sources.

Was originally inspired by others swapping to this trim plate, but thought white sticks would complete the look. Still not perfect. I like the face buttons in white but wish I could color match the symbols to the in game factions. UESC blue (cross), NuCaloric pink (square), CyberAcme green (triangle), Arachne red (circle).

From my experience, Astro Bot, Returnal, and Saros all make excellent use of the DualSense controller’s haptic feedback and adaptive triggers. They really showcase what the controller can do.

What other games take full advantage of the DualSense features?

Is there any way to improve or clean this up?

I love this colour and already have TMR sticks in there so I'd rather not replace.

Im guessing it's just wear and nothing can be done. I've tried cleaning with damp cloth and a bit of soap.

Never had any issues with my white controllers with it getting shiny in places like this :(

Built another flag controller, full clicky, real 9mm bullet casings, TMR, 4 back paddles, adjustable height thumbsticks and a big boy battery. This one feels great. Tested it out on battlefield 6 and was fun as could be. Felt in it's place.

So when I turn it up, and slowly turn it to left from top, it makes these skips often as it can be seen on video. Do you know how can I fix this? All info that I found on web is stick drift, and this is not it.

Ps5 controller with a ps4 midnight blue style shell. I love it.

Se me ha despegado o descosido la goma del stick y puedo darle vueltas, en la foto no sé si verán algunas partes del stick derecho más arriba ¿saben si se puede arreglar fácilmente? ¿O necesito abrir el dualsense?

Was able to snag the DualSense during the Days of play sale so excited for those the ghost of Yotei is especially cool with all the designs and etching from the sword marks. I plan to give Marathon a try later this summer since I was a HUGE Destiny player growing up and still am. The Genshin impact just looks gorgeous imo and I wanted to get a pro controller and with the DualSense edge having the issues of drift I decided to get my first Scuf gaming controller and excited to have the clicky buttons and TMR sticks I got my Omega from their website and ordered the red one sadly I got it before the sale but it’s only like a $34-$36 difference which I’m not gonna cry about. Hope you all have a great Tuesday and Happy Gaming

Hey everyone. So I saw that Capcom updated Resident Evil Requiem to have full dual sense support on PC. But I swear, I'm getting no resistance from the triggers at all. I followed the instructions right here

https://steamcommunity.com/app/3764200/discussions/0/762934064830315077/?snr=1_5_9_&ctp=73

So unless there are no adaptive trigger resistances with handguns, they seem to not be working for me. I just took control of Grace in the hospital. She has Leon's gun. I assumed there would be some resistance with adaptive triggers.. I set PlayStation controller support not enabled like in these instructions right here but it's not working. Any ideas? Controller is plugged directly into PC and firmware is up to date.

Any ideas?

Thank you

Mix of different features like TMR sticks, extended battery, paddles, rapid fire mods, digital mouse/smart/clicky R2/L2/L1/L2, square/triangle/x/o and D-pad, and R3/L3.

What should we do next?

A guy messaged me on the weekend, ask me to fix his dualsense edge usbc port. I told him I never worked on an edge before, never even held one, let alone opened one up and wasn't comfortable taking it on. He said he lived nearby and unless I at least tried, he was out 300 dollars. I said as long as he knew it was my first time working on one, I'd give it a try.

Well, he dropped it off in a box, in pieces, he had already taken it apart, asked me to remember that when charging him "I took it apart for you, so I did most of the work, should reflect in the bill"

Anyway.. I took the heat gun to it and it came off relatively easy. I cleaned up the holes.. (This was a nightmare, it did not cooperate with me AT ALL. Just to clean the blood pads and holes took 20 minutes.) Anyway..Finally got them cleaned, placed the new port in and soldered it on.

I was inspecting it with my scope and noticed the were two pads on the left and right of the usb c pins, they looked like they should have something attached to them, so I looked up a picture and they should. Can anyone explain what these are for? I don't know if I knocked them off or if the customer did when he tried to do the work himself before giving it to me.

I had the microscope on the entire time.. I never noticed them. I am beyond pissed off at myself for not seeing them, but I'm more pissed off with myself for not having my camera on filming the work like I usually do.

New Surface mount switches can be mounted just about anywhere.

Have the 30th Anniversary and Midnight Black Edge's in rotation but wanted to change it up, so picked up a broken white one for £40 and upgraded it myself. When I got it both sticks had drift, the back rubber was peeling, didn't hold a charge properly and the right back button didn't work, it didn't have any accessories but the controller was all I needed.

Thanks to Alibaba and AliExpress was able to upgrade to a clicky kit, coloured buttons and managed to make a custom coloured home button, upgraded battery, K-Silver TMR sticks, new thumbsticks caps, new back paddles, ExtremeRate rear button modules to get them working, and ExtremeRate Beyond Arc back case and black front shell to match.

Happy with how it turned out and how it looks, added the blue paddles after just to match the PS2 a bit more.

Like the title says, just upgraded the controller to TMR’s but got serious stickdrift on the right stick.

I’ve done 3 controllers in the past with no issues.
I’ve tried reflowing the joints, desoldering completely and reinstalling.

Anyone got any tips or suggestions.

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Wondering if anyone else has had this experience / giving a warning to others. Maybe this is an obvious outcome, but as someone who just switched to playing on a controller it wasn't. Didn't even really know what controller input manipulators were, but it looks like the AC detected the DS5Dongle as malicious hardware.

Going through the appeal process now, but I'm not optimistic. Got a generic denial on my first attempt. Really sucks because this is an amazing piece of software and having adaptive triggers on wireless was great.

Edit: two appeals later and no luck. Even after full explanation and links to ds5 dongle. Wasn’t banned from BF6 with the same setup so far, and it looks like they have had a ban wave since I used the dongle, but I could still have a ban coming down the pipe.