truegamer25 Posted December 17, 2017 Share Posted December 17, 2017 Hello all, I managed to pick up a tpcast from newegg, got that all set up and now my base stations are staying constantly on/aren't going to sleep. From the research I have done, it looks like the link box is where the original vive had the bluetooth, but i believe the tpcast doesn't have bluetooth communicating the same way. I have a bluetooth usb dongle that i was hoping to leverage to get them to shut off, but can't seem to get that to "automagically" work. I've followed a number of steps outside a complete reimage of my system, anyone know if there is a way to get the base stations to talk to my pc outside the link box's bluetooth/on that separate connection so they go to sleep like they used to? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HackPerception Posted December 18, 2017 Share Posted December 18, 2017 Hello , Thanks for reporting this! We don't offer support for 3rd party peripherals and recommend that you contact TP-Cast's support team directly to maximize the chance of finding a solution. Since it seems like the TP-Cast is causing interference with some of the Vive's basic functions, I'll shoot them an email and investigate further. There is the possibility that this is simply a trade-off of their wireless solution. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
truegamer25 Posted December 18, 2017 Author Share Posted December 18, 2017 Hello there David, I am pretty sure the TPCast doesn't have a proper bluetooth adapter/receiver in its configuration, or at the very least not one that Steamvr/Vive is recognizing to send the proper sleep/wake commands to the base stations; when I was setting up the TPCast it required using the power supply from the standard vive link box, so Bluetooth from that is disabled. When I try plugging the link box in again to enable bluetooth, I can't get the vive to work as it's trying to configure and recognize via the link box and thus never connects via TPCast at that point. I would certainly be happy with a workaround of using a bluetooth dongle I bought, hoping to remedy this issue simply. If there is a way to have the lighthouses talk/pair to my dongle, that would easily take care of the problem - any chance of that happening? It's much simpler for me to use bluetooth communication to the lighthouses than physically unplugging the power, and I am sure others with TPCast would appreciate having that automated functionality too... it's only $10 for a bluetooth adapter and many systems come with bluetooth built in these days too, so maybe that's the "mk1 fix" ? :) *edit* I just reached out to TPCast chat, the contact I got a hold of indicated the TPCast doesn't have bluetooth built in and was given an email for their dev team; I'll reach out to them as well, hopefully one side or the other of this issue can get a way of telling the base stations to wake up/sleep :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
truegamer25 Posted February 8, 2018 Author Share Posted February 8, 2018 Any word on this/any way for us to get 3rd party bluetooth support for now? I know the vive pro is eventually coming out, between now & then this would be a pretty helpful workaround so I don't have to keep manually plugging/unplugging my base stations Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
molatov Posted February 12, 2019 Share Posted February 12, 2019 Did you find a work-around? I'm going to use smart plugs if not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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