Xbox 360 wireless controller wake from usb
#1
I can't get it to work. When the computer goes to sleep, the receiver goes off. I even went to device manager to enable allow wake-up from this device but didnt work. I also bought an external powered usb hub but it still turns off when computer goes to s3 sleep.

Someone in his link seems to have gotten it to work didn't say how. Any clues?
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#2
If you ever get this figured out please post how. I've been trying to get it to work myself for over a year. I don't think its possible. I think Microsoft design the drivers to put the receiver to sleep when the computer sleeps . Unless a custom driver is made I don't think you can wake with the wireless xbox360 controller. I gave up trying a long time ago. Now I just hit the spacebar on my wireless keyboard before grabbing my xbox gamepad.

Out of curiosity who in his link has gotten it to work? Are you sure he isn't talking about the wire xbox controller? I'd love to shelf my wireless keyboard for good.
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#3
these links seem to indicate that it's been done.

http://www.hyperspin-fe.com/forum/showth...hp?t=13195

http://www.sevenforums.com/general-discu...rnate.html

http://www.beingmanan.com/wp/2009/08/use...l-your-pc/

I try to email microsoft but their website does not list the xbox 360 controller under hardware contact support page. I want to ask them to provide a driver to support this feature. If enough of us ask, then they might do it.
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#4
the first link advises it only works with the "wired 360 controller" but your second link has a link to this software (http://slicksolutions.eu/). Looks Promising

The last link is a great tool for mapping keys and mouse movement to your controller but I can gaurentee "xpadder" does not alow any kind of support for waking your PC, hell it doesnt even work with "user Account control" popups or the logon screen etc.
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#5
Looks like you guys were 4 years ahead of me, but I am wondering if anyone has come up with a way of doing this? When computer goes to sleep/shutdown it turn the receiver off. The usb ports are still powered, but I can't seem to change the power management settings for the usb wireless receiver. Does anyone have a schematic of wireless receiver? Could I short some connections to jump the switch to keep it powered when it is shutdown?
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#6
The vast majority of modern motherboards have two main ways to wake from S3 sleep: 1)Wake on LAN, and 2) USB input from a HID-compliant device. The 360 controller needs drivers to make it work, so you know it is not HID-compliant. Don't be misled. It will show up in device manager as an HID-compliant device, but the BIOS/UEFI is not going to recognize any HID-compliant input from the gamepad or its dongle (the computer sees these as one device).

Here's a good reddit thread on the topic. If you find a way to make it work I'd be interested, but, unfortunately, I don't think that's going to happen with a 360 controller.

I'm curious if Valve will make the Steam Controller HID-compliant, as are others. I guess time will tell.
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