hsth Posted October 26, 2023 Posted October 26, 2023 With the Pimax Crystal there is no power management control for the lighthouses. At least none in Pimax Play and also not with SteamVR. That is because the Crystal does not have a Bluetooth module build-in like the Valve Index. After a solution offered on reddit I managed to solve it on my system. This is how it worked for me. 1. Bought a BT dongle on Amazon Bluetooth adapter Pc, USB Bluetooth 5.3 Bluetooth dongle adapter voor pc, lange afstanden 328FT / 100M Bluetooth Stick driver compatibel met computer Windows 11/10/8.1 : Amazon.nl: Elektronica 2. Installed Python from the Windows Store Python 3.11 - Microsoft Apps 3. Let Windows add the path to your environment path. 4. Download LH Manager from GitHub GitHub - nouser2013/lighthouse-v2-manager: This python script helps you switch your Steam HMD lighthouses V2 on and into stand-by. 5. I downloaded the lhv2_off.ico, lhv2_on.ico and the lighthouse-v2-manager.py. 6. Then go to command prompt and install the BLE module that is required for Bluetooth and run these commands: - pip3 install bleak - pip3 install winshell - pip3 install pywin32 7. Make sure that the command prompt is in the directory where you downloaded the LH manager items and run the command: - python lighthouse-v2-manager.py discover -cs. The command should finish with these lines: Trying to create Desktop Shortcuts... * OK: LHv2-ON.lnk was created successfully. * OK: LHv2-OFF.lnk was created successfully. I ended with two icons on my desktop, one to switch the lighthouse ON, the other to switch it OFF. No more whining coils… Of course, as this solution has nothing to do with a specific headset it should work for other headsets as long as they use the V2 lighthouses. I asked already at Pimax to include something like this in future developments of Pimax Play. Fingers crossed.
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