PS3 remote battery drain

Hi.

I'm currently using the latest OSMC media center (successor of raspbmc) on the raspberry pi 2.
It uses the bluez packages (5.12 AFAIR) for handling the bluetooth connections.

Connecting and using the ps3 remote (1st gen) works quite ok with that. The problem I have is, that the remote doesn't seem to go to standby and batteries drain very quickly (2-3 weeks).

Before OSMC, I used raspbmc. It had the same problems initially. But a user named "kitlaan" applied patches
to the original bluez packages to get standby working. After replacing the original bluez packages with the
patched ones, standby worked and batteries lasted at least 6 months.

One could easily recognize the standby when hitting a button on the remote. It lagged a second before the button press
went through to kodi. After it had woken up, pressing a button worked instantly - without a delay.

Back then, the patch used the 4.98 version of bluez. Now I can see that the latest official bluez version is 5.36.
Now I'm wondering, whether the patches have made it somehow into the official bluez version.

Testing with 5.12 showed, that standby didn't work as expected. Also when using a IdleTimeout of 1 minute within
the input.conf.

Basically one can get it to work with that (there are the patches mentioned):

https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Sony_PS3_BD_Remote

Does anybody have a clue whether the patches - or some parts of them - have made it into bluez?

Thanks
Veit

Hi Veit,

Check that you have the following patch:

http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-bluetooth/msg64073.html

This will make sure all the references to the sockets are released which means the device can be disconnected if nothing else is using the link.

Luiz Augusto von Dentz

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I was about to make a reference to that patch. Do we have any way to make this automatic for this device? I couldn't find a way to automatically disconnect a device after a period of idleness, and even less for a particular device. Do we have something like that?

Cheers