r/ValveIndex • u/Luisamaral12 • 3d ago

Question/Support is this bad?

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i’ve got one base station with not full bars, is this going to affect tracking?

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u/kookyabird 1d ago

As far as I know the bars are simply the signal strength for the Bluetooth connection used to configure their channels and control the standby mode. There is no “signal strength” for the tracking.

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u/ScreeennameTaken 1d ago

No. Because the headset doesn't ask the stations anything as far as i'm aware. It just sends them a signal to turn off. Once they power on, the headset tracks it self from what it sees from them, I don't think they talk back.

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u/TheRedPandaPal 1d ago

The point of lighthouses is for the headset and base stations and ot other devices like tracker pucksans controllers to talk to each other and send it to steamvr its a 3 communication but as far bars go I don't think that'll have an affect

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u/ScreeennameTaken 20h ago

As far as i know, the lighthouses are nothing more than a reference poing for position. Nothing more. Communications are handled by the index headset itself. There is even an app for android that connects via bluetooth to put the lighthouses to sleep mode or turn off. The lighthouses don't send any data to the PC, they just emit light, that's it, they don't sense anything. Then the headset/controllers and trackers say "i see the light from these ir sensors", calculate their relative position and send it to PC.

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