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PS3 sixasis controller with Fire TV?

Has anyone tried or had any success pairing a PS3 sixaxis controller with a Fire TV? I'm not making any progress

mr3p said:
Has anyone tried or had any success pairing a PS3 sixaxis controller with a Fire TV? I'm not making any progress
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Unfortunately, I don't think it's possible. I tried it myself, both with usb and bluetooth, to no avail.

[Q] Wired Xbox 360 controller issues

I have recently purchased an Amazon Fire TV Box. I have side loaded emulators and games and want to use an old wired xbox 360 controller that I had laying around. From what I read I should just be able to plug & play. It won't work. The lights continueally flash on the controller but nothing else happenes. I really don't want to fork out for a Fire TV games controller as from what I hear they aren't all that good.
Any help would be great.
(United Kingdom)

Garff1e said:
I have recently purchased an Amazon Fire TV Box. I have side loaded emulators and games and want to use an old wired xbox 360 controller that I had laying around. From what I read I should just be able to plug & play. It won't work. The lights continueally flash on the controller but nothing else happenes. I really don't want to fork out for a Fire TV games controller as from what I hear they aren't all that good.
Any help would be great.
(United Kingdom)
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Have you tried the controller on your computer? Maybe its broken.
I've hooked up 2 of the XBox 360 Controllers with a USB hub to my FTV and they work perfectly.

For what it's worth my 2 wired third party xbox 360 controllers don't seem to work properly. The L / R triggers don't register on the fire TV.

Managed to get it sorted. Controller was faulty. Tried another and all good.

NES (and other) Emulators that work with game controllers

Is there an NES emulator (or preferably a multi-console emulator with NES support) that works well with the Fire TV 2nd Gen and paired Bluetooth gamepads? The gamepads in question are specifically ASUS brand, but they are Android compatible, pair properly to the Fire TV without any additional apps or mods (i.e., no settings.apk needed), and they both work with all gamepad compatible Fire TV apps. Unfortunately, none of the emulators that I've tried appear to receive input from the controller once I start a game. Here are the emulators that I've tried:
Latest Retroarch (both Play Store and directly from Libretro).
NES.emu
Nostalgia.NES
RetroFC
John NES Lite
Has anyone had success with an NES emulator and game controllers? Did you need to change settings? Any insight would be appreciated!
- Dave

I use the Amazon Fire Game Controller and Dualshock 4 with all my emulators.

I use Retroarch with both my rooted Fire TV 2 and rooted Fire Stick, i use 2 x ps3 pads on the Fire Stick (connected with the help of sideloaded SixAxis apk, to which works flawlessly (a little of a bugger to set up as enabling SixAxis knocks the bluetooth connection off but to compensate for this i have the 'enable otg script' auto start at boot and have a 2.4ghz airmouse/keyboard combo remote plugged into my home made powered OTG). Ive actually got 3 ps3 dualshock pads and they all connect at the same time and is a blast with Super Bomberman. Just have to make sure you have them all setup correctly.
As for the Fire TV 2, ive got a 'Rii GP500' android pad connected through bluetooth and if im wanting 2 players on this i have to connect the only other type of controller i have which works, a wired Xbox One pad, ive not got the Wireless adapter to try out no have i got a 360 pad with the wireless adapter to try ( i have read the 360 wireless adapter does work with the Fire TV to use your 360 pad wirelessly). Unfortunatly the ps3 pads refuse to work on the Fire TV 2 no matter what i try (guttered as the ps3 dualshocks are great), i have read that they dowork with Fire TV 1 tho.
Ive also had connected another type of android pad to both Fire TV 2 and Fire Stick, the Ipega 9068, there is quite a few different variations of Ipega bluetooth pads and dont see why they wouldn't work.
As long as you set them up properly in Retroarch i cant see why you would have difficulty.
Saying that when i once tried to plug 2 Xbox one pads in wired, i could not get Retroarch to detect properly, i dont know if it was the case it seen 2 controllers as 1 or not.
My advice would be to setup 1 correctly then save the setup in Retroarch then try adding another, but before commiting to buy see if you can borrow one to try out, or go for any of the compatable ones (if applicable to you) ive tested.

SNES9X Ex+ also working perfectly even with 8Bitdo controllers...

Fire TV 3 - Recommended Game Controllers

Currently running latest rev of Fire TV 4K. Trying to find a controller that doesn't have issues.
Tried using my Nintendo Switch Pro Controller but it does not work properly. Will connect but can't pair properly.
Can anyone with first hand experience recommend a controller that works well with the Fire TV 3? Using it for Steam Link, which works great if I just had a controller - Thanks!

If anyone else was curious, Xbox wireless controller with current firmware runs excellent on the Fire TV 4K. Used Moonlight to play Destiny 2 from my PC to my Fire TV yesterday for a couple of hours without a single hitch. PC is connected via LAN, Fire TV via AC.
Did notice emulation issues if Steam is running when trying to play Destiny 2 via Moonlight. Recommend closing steam using Moonlight mouse emulation if you plan to play Destiny 2 without a hitch.

Rooted stock rom Firetv remote Bug?

So I have a few fire sticks from tank Sheldon Sloan etc and all of them after a few weeks the firetv remotes stop working even after replacing the batteries the fire stick says it is not connected to the remote and the remotes still control the tv volumes just fine. has anyone encountered this or is it something I did wrong with rooting the devices?