PS4/PS5 authenticator passthrough

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Is there any specific configuration required for USB passthrough authentication? I watched the video on HID-remapper’s YouTube channel, and it seems like it should just work, however I’ve encountered some issues.

My auth device is a Booter5 dongle from Cosmox/Haute42. When connected directly to the computer it successfully passes the auth tester.

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However when connected through HID-remapper (from Mavercade, which I think is just a v5 board with 4 USB ports, like the one in the video above) it doesn’t pass authentication (screenshot in reply).

The LED on the dongle keeps blinking, indicating that it’s inactive. Of course if I plug HID-remapper into an actual PS5 it times out in 8 minutes.

I think that after many attempts there was one time when it started working (passing the tester, solid white LED on the dongle), but after unplugging and plugging back in I couldn’t reproduce this again. Tried reflashing to the latest firmware on Github - no change. Would appreciate any tips.

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Yeah, that should work, though I haven’t personally tested with a Booter5. Let’s see if we can find someone.

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Thanks! Please let me know if there’s anything I can do to help.

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Apparently there are different revisions of the dongle, can you post a closeup picture of yours? (I don’t have a confirmation any of them works yet…)

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Unfortunately I couldn’t find any numbers or revision codes, but here are photos (one per post due to new user restriction).

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I don’t know what we can do about it yet, but I got a separate confirmation that the Booter5 doesn’t work with HID Remapper v5.

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For what it’s worth, I can confirm that I’ve tested it with controllers running GP2040 firmware and it does authenticate with a real PS5.

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Yeah, GP2040-CE uses what we’d call a single Pico setup here. If it doesn’t work on the v5 board, the issue is likely with the hub chip that it uses (or, less likely, with the fact that it uses the second RP2040’s native USB interface - this typically gives us better compatibility, not worse, it’s the reason we use this setup in the first place).

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