DS5Dongle-OLED-Edition-steam-machine/CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

All notable changes to Pico2W DualSense 5 Bridge — OLED Edition are documented here. This fork tracks awalol/DS5Dongle (upstream) and adds an optional OLED status display plus a security/correctness audit pass on the core bridge.

Format follows Keep a Changelog. Versioning approximates SemVer with the upstream version stream — the fork shares a major.minor with whatever upstream tag it is rebased on.

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[0.6.0-rebase] — 2026-05-17

Rebased onto upstream awalol/DS5Dongle v0.6.0-hotfix. All OLED Edition features preserved with no user-visible regression.

Changed

• Adopted upstream's state_mgr refactor (awalol/DS5Dongle#93) as the new base for controller-state and audio-packet construction. The local speaker / HD-haptic regression fix we shipped in bff65d6 (re-introducing a 63-byte state_data block into every audio packet) is dropped — upstream's state_mgr.cpp is the proper architectural fix and supersedes the hack. Speaker, HD haptics, and basic rumble all verified working on the rebased firmware. Same fix loteran/DS5Dongle shipped as c7a8d3c ~6 h before ours.
• All upstream commits between our prior base (a2e3a33) and v0.6.0-hotfix are now in our tree: 0a33aae PR#93 merge, b1019fb README update, 54a4b69 config struct comment typo, f882ff1 adjust default state-init volume, 77bbee5 rumble transfer fix, c2e0d84 state init after connected, 7bbe37b state_mgr refactor itself, 9a2c2b4 discoverable / connectable off when connected, 508a841 DISABLE_SPEAKER_PROC option, b308545 audio.cpp comment, 0ed05d3 rumble hotfix.
• Our update_discoverable() helper (gates gap_discoverable_control on slots_any_empty()) replaces upstream's stricter gap_*_control(false) pair on L2CAP connect. Effect: dongle stays discoverable while at least one slot is empty (needed for slot-1/2/3 pairing); only goes dark when all 4 are full. Strictly looser than upstream's rule, but correct for the multi-slot use case.

Fixed

• awalol/DS5Dongle#100 "(v0.6.0) Dongle is detected as a new device on Windows when using different USB ports" — upstream's e79c762 remove usb serialnumber #32 zeroed the device descriptor's iSerialNumber to work around a SpecialK compat issue, but that broke Windows device identity: users lost per-device volume / app settings every time they moved the dongle to a different USB port. The OLED Edition restores iSerialNumber = STRID_SERIAL (per-board unique serial from flash chip ID via board_usb_get_serial). Trade-off documented in src/usb_descriptors.cpp: re-introduces SpecialK incompatibility (#32) for the narrower set of Windows users with that specific tool, in exchange for stable device identity for the broader Windows population.

Verification

End-to-end on user's hardware after the rebase:

• DS5 pairs cleanly.
• Speaker audio via scripts/test_speaker.sh --tone 440 3 — audible (load-bearing check that upstream's state_mgr does what we expect).
• Basic rumble works in games (validates we didn't disturb upstream's 0ed05d3 hotfix).
• All 10 OLED screens render correctly with live data.
• Multi-slot pairing: switch between slots, slot_assign on empty, wipe-from-Settings all work.
• PS + Mute hold-2s combo reboot triggers watchdog_reboot (validates our interrupt_loop addition coexists with upstream's state_update flow).

Unchanged

The full prior CHANGELOG history for [0.5.4] and earlier sessions remains accurate and below.

[Unreleased]

Fixed

• DualSense speaker + HD haptic actuator regression — upstream commit 3a31bd7 (2026-05-12, "refactor: add SetStateData and audio send priority") moved the 0x10 SetStateData sub-report out of every 0x36 audio packet and into a one-time L2CAP-open setup. The DS5 hardware requires that sub-report to be re-asserted on every audio frame (the 0x7f 0x7f Headphones+Speaker volume bytes specifically) or the speaker and HD haptic actuators silently stop producing output. Restored in src/audio.cpp with the pre-3a31bd7 packet layout (state_data at pkt[11..75], haptic at pkt[76..141], speaker at pkt[142..343]). Same fix shipped independently by loteran/DS5Dongle as commit c7a8d3c ~6 h before ours; credit to loteran for the clearer hardware-side explanation in their commit message.
• USB UAC1 SET_CUR Volume request no longer overrides flash-persisted speaker_volume. PipeWire / PulseAudio re-apply their last-known UAC1 volume on every device reconnect, which had silently overridden whatever the user had saved in the OLED Settings menu. The in-memory volume[] array still tracks live host volume; only the flash sync was removed. Fix borrowed from loteran/DS5Dongle commit 03fa1e4.

Added

• Audio Auto Haptics — derive haptic feedback from the speaker audio (UAC channels 0/1) for games that send sound but no per-frame haptic data, e.g. Ghost of Tsushima on Linux + Steam. DSP is a 1-pole low-pass + envelope follower + modulation + soft-clip (x / (1 + |x|), avoids tanhf on Cortex-M33), borrowed from loteran/DS5Dongle commit 5d6bc2f. Four modes selectable from the OLED Settings menu: Off / Fallback / Mix / Replace. Default is Fallback — derived rumble fires only after the game has been silent on the native haptic path (channels 2/3) for ~1 s, so games that send native HD haptics (Spider-Man Remastered) are not overridden, while games that don't (Ghost of Tsushima) get derived haptics out of the box. Gain (0–200 %) and LP cutoff (80 / 160 / 250 / 400 Hz) are also tunable from the Settings menu.
• Audio Diagnostics counters on the OLED Diagnostics screen: USB aud N/s (UAC1 frames per second arriving from the host) and BT 0x32 N/s (audio packets emitted to the DS5 per second). Lets the user verify the speaker/haptic path is actually moving bytes without needing a UART cable. Used to triage the speaker regression above.

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0.5.4 — 2026-05-16

First full OLED Edition release. Includes upstream's v0.5.4 base plus the audit pass and the entire OLED add-on feature set.

Added — OLED display add-on

Requires a Waveshare Pico-OLED-1.3 (128×64 SH1107). Firmware drives it automatically when present and no-ops gracefully when absent.

• Boot splash (1.5 s) showing firmware version on power-on.
• 10 screens, cycled with KEY0 (forward) / KEY1 (back, except where contextual):
  1. Status — connection state, paired BD address, battery % with pixel-icon battery, live stick / D-pad / face-button / L1-R1 / L2-R2 trigger visualization.
  2. Slots — persistent 4-slot multi-controller pairing (see below).
  3. Lightbar Color Picker — tilt-to-RGB live preview on the controller's lightbar, with 4 user-savable favorite slots (△ ○ ✕ □) and three effect presets (Breathing, Rainbow, Fade).
  4. Trigger Test — cycles 7 DS5 adaptive trigger effects (Off / Feedback / Weapon / Vibration / Bow / Galloping / Machine Gun) on both L2 and R2, bitpacked per dualsensectl's reverse-engineering.
  5. Gyro Tilt — live X/Y/Z accelerometer values + 40×40 crosshair box that tracks tilt in real time.
  6. Touchpad — live render of finger positions on the touchpad surface, with a finger count.
  7. Diagnostics — uptime, BT state, HCI / audio-FIFO / opus-FIFO counter stubs (kept for future wiring).
  8. RSSI — live BT signal strength of the active link, dBm + bar.
  9. VU Meters — live peak meters for the speaker + haptic audio paths.
  10. Settings — persistent on-device editor for the 8 firmware config fields, plus "Reset to defaults" (hold △ 2 s) and "Wipe all slots" (hold △ 2 s).
• OLED brightness control — KEY1 long-press cycles brightness levels.
• Auto-dim after 5 minutes of input idle (lifespan / burn-in protection).
• Soft-reboot recovery without unplugging USB:
  • OLED KEY0 double-click (~400 ms window) → watchdog_reboot.
  • DS5 PS + Mute held for 2 seconds → watchdog_reboot (works without the OLED).
• Pixel-art icons in the Status screen header (link indicator + battery icon).

Added — 4-slot persistent multi-controller pairing

• Bond up to 4 DualSenses; switch between them from the Slots OLED screen.
• Active slot persisted in the existing flash-backed config; dongle reconnects to the last-used controller on boot.
• D-pad ▲▼ to move cursor, △ to switch to the cursor slot (disconnect current ACL, restart inquiry filtered to the new slot's bd_addr), □ hold 1.5 s to wipe a single slot.
• "Wipe all slots" item in the Settings menu drops all 4 stored bd_addrs + all BTstack link keys in one shot.
• Inquiry filter on HCI_EVENT_INQUIRY_RESULT enforces slot ownership: devices stored in other slots are skipped; empty slots auto-assign on the first L2CAP HID_CONTROL channel open.
• Dongle stops being BT-discoverable once all 4 slots are full (security tightening; was permanently discoverable in upstream).
• Storage: BTstack's TLV link-key DB holds the keys (NVM_NUM_LINK_KEYS=4, unchanged from upstream); a new dedicated flash sector holds the 4 bd_addrs + occupancy bits + magic word.
• Multi-slot UX modeled on zurce/DS5Dongle-OLED. Credit to zurce.

Added — security / correctness audit pass

Critical and high-severity fixes on the core bridge code. Many of these have since landed upstream independently; this changelog captures what this fork shipped.

• C1: 4.8× stack-overflow in core1_entry's out_buf (200 floats vs. 960 floats the resampler/encoder actually writes/reads). Root cause of the long-standing "audio may experience slight stuttering" known issue. Buffer resized and Opus return value now checked.
• C2 + H5: Variable-length stack array in set_feature_data sized by host-controlled length (potential stack blowup). Replaced with a bounded fixed buffer + length validation; CRC bounds tightened so len < 4 no longer wraps to a huge size_t.
• C3: Unbounded memcpy into a 78-byte stack buffer in tud_hid_set_report_cb for HID report 0x02 (overflow if bufsize > 76). Bounded.
• H1: tud_hid_get_report_cb wrote feature_data.size() - 1 bytes into the host-supplied buffer without clamping to reqlen (host-buffer overflow). Clamped.
• H2: OOB read in on_bt_data (data[56] / memcpy(.., data+3, 63) with no length check on the incoming BT frame). Bounded.
• H3: Same pattern in l2cap_packet_handler (packet[3] read with no size check). Bounded.
• H4: UAC1 volume parsed as uint16 instead of signed int16 — non-conformant hosts could crank haptic gain to 256× and saturate everything. Fixed sign extension.
• H7: BT report sequence counter in main.cpp cycled with period 16 (incremented as int, written as (c<<4)). Replaced with the correct (c+1) & 0x0F wrap used in audio.cpp.
• N1: Pairing-failure recovery: three gap_inquiry_start(30) calls were commented out in bt.cpp's error paths (HCI command status, connection complete, authentication complete). Dongle would soft-brick after any pairing failure that didn't end in a disconnect. Uncommented.
• N2: Removed printf of the bonding link-key to UART on every reconnect.
• N3: CRC-helper bounds: fill_output_report_checksum / fill_feature_report_checksum underflowed size_t and wrote at negative offsets on len < 4. Guarded.
• N4: HCI command-send return values logged so a future stuck-dongle report has observability.
• N5: Watchdog enabled (8 s). Hangs now recover automatically instead of needing a power-cycle.

Added — pairing posture hardening

• Tightened gap_discoverable_control(1) — the dongle now only advertises as pairable when at least one slot is empty. Once all 4 slots are full, it goes non-discoverable (still connectable to bonded controllers).
• (Carried over from upstream's own hardening; documented here for completeness.)

Changed

• Project rebranded as OLED Edition to differentiate from upstream. UF2 artifact renamed: ds5-bridge.uf2 → ds5-bridge-oled.uf2.
• README rewritten with full hardware section (Pico 2 W + Pico-OLED-1.3 SKUs, vendor links, prices), all 10 OLED screen mockups in the new cycle order, and explicit TINYUSB 0.20.0 pin requirement (the 0.18.0 bundled with Pico SDK 2.2.0 lacks the 4-arg form of TUD_AUDIO_EP_SIZE used by this project's tusb_config.h).
• KEY1 short-press: was a 250 ms test-rumble burst on most screens; now cycles backward through screens (mirror of KEY0). Still cycles trigger preset on Trigger Test and lightbar mode on Lightbar (their primary in-screen interactions).
• Screen cycle order reorganized: Status → Slots → Lightbar → Trigger Test → Gyro Tilt → Touchpad → Diagnostics → RSSI → VU Meters → Settings. Settings last; the three "test" stimulus screens grouped together; diagnostic screens grouped together. Screen indices are symbolic constants (kScreenStatus, kScreenSlots, …) so future reorders are a one-block edit.

Fixed

• config_default() was declared in config.h but never defined upstream (latent "undefined symbol" → linker "dangerous relocation" if anything called it). Implemented (fills body with 0xFF, runs config_valid() — same path as a freshly-erased flash sector).
• GitHub Actions workflow cp paths corrected to match the ds5-bridge-oled.uf2 produced after the CMake OUTPUT_NAME rename. (Workflows had failed on every push since the rebrand commit.)

Build

• TinyUSB pinned to 0.20.0 (required; see Build Instructions in README).
• Pico SDK 2.2.0 + toolchain 14_2_Rel1 validated. Pico 2 W (RP2350) is the primary target.
• CMakeLists.txt adds src/oled.cpp + src/slots.cpp to the executable target, links hardware_spi.
• OUTPUT_NAME set to ds5-bridge-oled so the UF2 reflects the project name.

Acknowledgements

• awalol/DS5Dongle — upstream base. This fork is a strict superset that tracks upstream and layers add-on features.
• zurce/DS5Dongle-OLED — pixel-art icon approach, the "hold for factory reset" UX pattern, and the multi-slot persistent pairing model.

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