Active profile

Profile 1 to 4: Single LED in one of four directions.

Profile 5 to 8: Triangle LED array pointing in one of four directions.

Profile 9 to 12: Double LED, custom profiles.

See Profiles.

Home shortcuts (home profile)

Special profile that is temporally enabled while holding the Home button.

Allows for shortcuts at any time (changing the current profile, alt-tabbing, etc).

See Home profile.

Gamepad shortcuts

Double-pressing and holding Home button enables a special profile (mapped to a generic gamepad).

Allows for quick access of gamepad buttons, and to use Steam Deck shortcuts such as bringing the on-screen keyboard.

Powered off / sleeping

Controller is sleeping, or ran out of battery, or does not have any source of power, or it was fried by a solar flare or supernova.

Booting up / connecting USB

The controller is booting up and trying to establish a wired connection.

If USB connection fails, the controller will try to go into wireless mode (see next entry).

Pairing with dongle

Controller is trying to connect with the wireless dongle.

Low battery

Battery level is under ~10% charge. Approximately 1 hour of use remains (with the reference design battery).

Double-press Home button to ignore this warning.

Calibration required / other problems

The specific problem will be pointed out in the firmware logs section on the Ctrl app. Some of these problems could be:

• The controller is not calibrated yet.
• One (or both) of the IMU / Gyro(s) could not start.
• Other problems while initializing the controller (see logs).

Double-press Home button to ignore this warning.

Pre-calibration / leave on a flat surface

The calibration procedure will start soon, you have a few seconds to leave the controller on a flat surface.

Calibrating

Controller is being calibrated, do not take it until it finish.

Power supply OK

Wired: Battery is fully charged (or there is no battery).

Wireless: Battery charge is between ~10% and 100%.

Charging battery

The USB cable is supplying power to charge the battery. It will turn off when the battery is full.

Important: If the controller is sleeping this LED remains off even when the battery is charging.

Low battery

Battery level is under ~10% charge. Approximately 1 hour of use remains (with the reference design battery).

This warning cannot be disabled.

Flashing in progress

While flashing the wireless_submodule firmware, the LED will blink rapidly to indicate flash memory is being rewritten.

It will turn off when the flashing is completed, and reboot into Bootsel / RPI-RP2 drive mode. See Firmware instructions.

Powered off / inactive mode

If the dongle cannot communicate via USB (for example because the PC is suspended), it will stay in a low-power mode in which is the antenna is off, but any signal via USB will wake it up again.

Paired

The dongle is ready to communicate with the controller.

Flashing in progress

While flashing the wireless_submodule firmware, the LED will blink rapidly to indicate flash memory is being rewritten.

It will turn off when the flashing is completed, and reboot into Bootsel / RPI-RP2 drive mode. See Firmware instructions.