The SizeAxisPair tool doesn't work on my Windows 11 system. It fails to find the PS3 controller so I can't get the MAC address it uses. Is there an alternative way to get it from the PS3 controller? The PS3 controller show up in the control panel and I can verify the buttons and joysticks work. There's nothing about the MAC address the controller talks to.

I am still working on the problem but have switched to a more expensive PS4 controller. The six axis tool connects now. It connected by first downloading a driver and then gave me the MAC address.  Now I need some time to find a training video I trust since I don’t see one on the dronebotworkshop

now that the driver is loaded I want to go back and see if my other controllers will connect. I volunteer as a physics and robotics teacher at a christian high school and we are completing the school year right now. So I probably won’t get back to this project for a couple of weeks

thanks for all the help

After trying 4 new controllers, 2 of which I paid extra for to get official Sony PS3's and a total of 2 laptop's and one desk PC windows 10 and 11, I have given up.

Instead, I went to Best Buy and bought an official Sony PS4 and tried it with the sixaxis tool.  When I used the PS4 with the tool it performed as you al have said. It loaded a driver and then it gave me the mac address.

Unfortunately school is ending and I am tied up with final projects and stuff so I havent had time to try and connect to my ESP32's yet.

I need to find a reliable training video that uses the PS4 next. There are a bunch out there but none are as detailed as Dronebot and finding one I can trust takes time.

There is an example for connecting to a PS4 on the ide but it doesn't ask for a MAC address so I'm not sure it works.

Thanks for all the help.

BTW, if you use the Reply link at the bottom right of the post you are replying to that person will get automatically notified by email that there is an update and it will insert the @name tag at the front of your reply just like you see in mine but not in yours. If you are talking to several people, just add their @names and they will also get notified.

I'm going to try using them latter today.  You may be right on the counterfit controller but came in a Sony box with Sony labels that look authentic.

Altough I don't use X-box I have discovered the X-box app on my lap top. May just be there because of microsoft but I'm going to try and delete it and the x-box driver, and the sixaxistool.  Then I will reinstall the sixaxistool and hope that it installs the correct driver.  At least I know what the correct driver is from your information.

Note: This IS Bluetooth so it is inherently finicky. I tried the same test plus others a few times before I just sat there and pressed button after button until the Bluetooth FINALLY connected.

Just a quick review:

Installing the SixAxisPairing tool causes the driver to be installed, it is called libusb-win32 devices/PS3 GamePad (as shown in screen grab in an earlier post)

If I pull the USB cable attached to the GamePad, the device driver goes away, and re-appears when I plug it back in again. No need to change the screen, just remove and plug in repeatedly and watch it come and go.

By all indications, you have a counterfeit Sony gamepad. Try the blue clone that Bill and I have that works just fine.