This Topic will contain useful programs for Pimax Hmds. Primarily the Reality Series.
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BS Manager- Lighthouse management (Auto On/Off - Crystal Only)
Posted By: Lazy-Fan6068 / Seadersn (actual nick since years 
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Hi OG-Crystal and Crystal Light owners,
It’s possible now: you can now let your lighthouses auto switch on (or off) together with your Crystal series HMD, depending on power state of your HMD. No install needed, just start and use.
Explanations:
- It autostarts with Windows and needs a Bluetooth LE receiver for controlling basestations - It’s three years old and was originally written by mann1x-ITA, source here on github; there’s a readme too, please read it for more info about this app
- Therefore it just needed some edits for recognizing Crystal-HMDs (for now OG Crystal & Crystal Light) and a little fix for registry startup of BSManager. Since it’s three years old, the Crystal HMD wasn’t included of course. It was added and the needed services were changed to fit the new PimaxPlay software (mann1x wrote it for pitool initially)
- Crystal Light: for now not possible to use it, but it’s prepared. Respectively you can use it when you unplug your USB port and make the CL powerless. ATM the power button sends CL only to sleep and does not turn it off. I’ll edit this post when switching fully off eventually finally will be possible
- You can use its RuntimeManager to automatically start (and close) PimaxPlay and its services (pls read the readme from mann1x linked above)
- It originally needs .NET Desktop Runtime 3.1.32, which is already included in this app, so no additional download needed. I’ve compiled it like mann1x as a standalone binary, it brings everything it needs to run correctly with it
- Again, please read mann1x’ explanations for how to handle this app. It’s kind of self explaining anyway
- Update 07.2024: Used Pimax Crystal Lighthouse Faceplate ID now, which should be the same for every Crystal version from my understanding. If, contrary to expectations, it doesn’t work for your Light or (in future) Super, just tell me here pls. I’d contact you via dm and ask you some questions then.
Download , VirusTotal check of the .exe inside the archive
mann1x original github repository
my github repository, outdated since it contains OG-C only. Will update it at some point of time.
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but I need this for 8KX… Since nothing is availabe yet, I use wireless sockets for BS power supplies to switch on/off. Another remote control, because it is simple radio, not wifi, but hey, it works.
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The uitils mentioned here will work for the earlier pimax Hmds. Just the first one seems to have an auto on & off with crystal.
These should also work for other mixedvr setups using Lighthouses.
mann1x’ original app should work with your headset; when not, just contact me, I’d need some info from your HMD but then can compile a version for your device, no problem.
addition to app list:
I was very surprised when I found this: BaseStation Manager, in ms-windoze store. it’s really okay, costs are minimal, so it’s worth a try, you should buy this app configuration of channels and sending sleep / doze / wake commands just simply work.
and there’s Lighthouse Power Management for android phones, but that’s already widely known imo.
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jep, BSManager from github (no matter which version) will auto start / stopp lighthouses depending on power state of your headset. additionally if you want to apps and services, even own ones via a text file; it’s all described in mann1x’ readme. i like open sources a lot ) 
the other apps are all “manual apps” for controlling LHs without an HMD even needed.
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Indeed Opensource is quite awesome and can allow rapid advances more easily.
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1st post updated with new version which uses the LH faceplate ID now. so it’s usable for the light versions too. when finally they are capable of being switched fully off… atm it’s a standby mode with everything still online.
when you post an ID which is unique to your 8kx then it’s possible to edit it into these sources. so you can use it for your 8kx.
you can see these IDs with for example USBDeView. We’d need the vendor and product USB IDs (pid / vid).
I thought the additional ID which already was included indeed was the ID for an 8kx but apparently, it seems, it’s not.
maybe search for more pimax HMD ID’s and include them, so an app for the whole pimax (lighthouse capable) series exist…? are all pimax HMDs now running with pimaxPlay or are there still versions which require piTool?
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Maybe @calvinyau can get a list of pimax hmd ids as you suggest for the app.
All Pimax HMDs are compatibles with PimaxPlay except for P4K.
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Scroll up. There are hmd Id numbers. @seadersn has added the hmd identifier for the LH Face plate.
If you can list the hmd ids the Lighthouse Manager can be updated for all p2 and p3 pimax hmds.
That maybe the og 8k or the 5k+ model most likely. Also possible as there are 2 8kX models that they might also use different hmd Id numbers for FW auto updating.
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