FIXED - Trouble with Vive Motion Cancellation

This is my first time trying to set up the vive motion cancellation and I am using the guide from the FAQ`s.

I have downloaded the OpenEmulator 1.3 software, installed it, shutdown and restarted my machine and ever since installing the software, I get the above error/issue with SteamVR. When you click "Disable safe mode", SteamVR restarts happily and then goes straight back to that message.

I can still use my vive without issue with iRacing with it like this but I am guessing this is why I can't go any further with the guide. I don't get the additional menus etc.

I have repaired the emulator software install and same behaviour. I openly admit I haven't read through all 40+ pages in the sticky thread for this software but I have gone back through the last 5 pages or so.

Any help or suggestions @noorbeast @Trip Rodriguez @JMB3D @J-1775

Sorry to tag people specifically but hoping there is some light somewhere and you guys are the biggest contributors in the main thread on this...

That thread is getting out of hand. We need smaller bite sized threads like this one. I'm looking forward to hearing about vive controller motion cancelation. Can you get away with only one camera?

The sign of a helpful, good, well intended thread is the amount of pages that it lasts...

My issue around not being able to run the OpenVR Emulator is all around the SteamVR software itself hence why i was hoping other people may have had similar problems around here. If you google "SteamVR opening in Safe Mode", there are so many variations of fixes and I am yet to find a "most likely cause + fix" scenario" unfortunately.

I have got a few links saved that I will need to try but once I do have it working, I will be sure to report back on my experience with the controller but I will most likely create a new thread for it

Personally I have never tried but I have heard of it happening. Because people are sitting down in a "stationary" position and aren't moving away from the lighthouse, I don't see any reason this wouldn't work but again, I haven't investigated the theory so i could be completely wrong!

Sorry, just answered you on another thread. Try the 9MB "driver_vrinputemulator_release_hopefully.zip" that replaces the original OVRIE drivers. Just watch out, the folder name in the zip is not correct, misses the zeros at the beginning! Worked like a charm for me, safe mode is gone and OVRIE is working perfectly.
EDIT: Got it from Github.

We are chasing each other around the forums... I just replied to your other response!

I'll post the same link here - https://github.com/matzman666/OpenV...YOMKFgrKjrj0SwXk_VYUeR2VuNu6veSaPTpIy8mDuEmBc

Thanks again for the heads up and confirmation of a working possible fix. Im hungry to try this now and see what happens

Haha, we really do! And I should have refreshed the page before I edited my post...
Anyway, I really hope the adapted drivers work for you as they did for me!
BTW, I also found that the lighthouses should not be placed too near of the tracker/controller, at least 1 meter seems fine. Since I placed my tracker behind the headrest, I moved my lighthouses to the side of the platform, thus BOTH lighthouses cover tracker AND Vive Pro.

Could you use just one lighthouse for tracking from behind? I want to get a controller and lighthouse, but really wanna be able to use it. Will det up demand I have 2 or more? Will it need me to have a vive for setup? Not finding answers to these questions. I'm sure one would work, bit does set up let me continue if o have only one? Help!

My understanding is you need a vive to set everything up and you will need it to initiate the motion compensation each time you open a game

Yea I have both lighthouses at about 11 and 1 o'clock if the front of my rig was 12. I'm using one of my controllers as the tracker and I've got it sitting about 30cm above my headset and about 20cm behind, sits just above the back of my head

So turns out I have gone 2 steps forward and 1 step backwards. I can replicate the fault now but still can't get it working.

I uninstalled the emulator, restarted my computer, installed the emulator again (Steam/SteamVR wasn't running) then carried out the zip file copy and paths file deletion, restarted my computer and tried again. SteamVR is detecting OpenVR, I am able to select it from the home menu, I'm able to select the controller, set the default profile to motion compensation but.....

OPENVR CRASHES WHEN I GO INTO MOTION COMPENSATION SETTINGS AND ATTEMPT TO ENABLE IT

OpenVR disappears from the home menu but I can restart it by running the overlay.exe file again.

No idea where to go with it now, will log an issue on the github page and might try steam forums

James Robbie, for me it works like this (no matter whether I use the Vive Pro or the Pimax (I use one Vive controller and one Vive tracker, but two controller are okay, too:
a) I open OVRIE
b) as device I choose the tracker
c) as device mode I choose "motion compensation"
d) I ignore "motion compensation settings" because I set it once and for all on "zero" (it sticks to that value, even after many system restarts. But I never managed to save a "profile". I also leave "device offsets", "render model" and "input remapping" on their defaults.)
e) I press "apply" and check whether "status" has switched to "motion compensation".
f) I close OVRIE by pressing the controller's system button.

Just from my experience: SteamVR is the basis for all. OVRIE then works whether a Vive or a Pimax is attached. Of course, the controller/tracker must be paired to the respective HMD. But then it makes no difference. As long as the SteamVR session lasts, the OVRIE settings remain. But when the compensation stops for any reason to show the expected results, then you better restart SteamVR or even the system...

Theoretically one lighthouse should be enough in a seated setting. I see a problem in only one controller. Once you have set it as the tracking device and pressed the apply button, any movement of the controller will joggle your view and it will be difficult to even just close the session, let alone change any other settings.

True. That's where the wmr controller comes in, I am hoping. Turn on one of each was my plan.

Hmmmmm.... I'm doing the same as you but with one difference, I have never been able to set the motion compensation settings initially or at all. I can get into the menu but when i try to change it from anything other than "disabled", thats when OpenVR crashes. I can select the controller and set it be "motion compensation" and the status changes to motion compensation but its obviously still set to disabled in the settings...

Mmmhh. If I remember well, that's where those alternate OVRIE files came in ─ at least for me. But it may not work with all. You renamed the folder in the zip resp. put the files in the folder in the correct one with the 00_ at the beginning?

If you have another controller that is seen by SteamVR, I guess that should work. After all, that's where SteamVR is strong: mingling devices.

So, I tried out a vive controller with my wmr headset.... good news: with input emulator you can see one wmr controller and one vive. That's the good news. The bad news is the whole screen was gray inside pc2, and I couldn't see the game inside the headset. Any other game works well (like vacation simulator). Problem is the only game I need it to work with, it doesn't. Any ideas?

A couple of weeks ago, I managed to get this working. The thing that fixed the crashing for me was this here:
https://github.com/sharkyh20/OpenVR-InputEmulator/releases/tag/SteamVR-Fix

The "release hopefully" fix mentioned a few posts above didn't work but this one here did. Hopefully this helps anybody/somebody at some stage