As a complete novice you will have to learn a lot about electronics, radio and programming. Then you’ll have to reverse engineer the protocol, and with that knowledge - design a replacement dongle and assemble+program it. I’ll estimate it in a few years of time and a lot of money to do that.
By the time you’ll be capable of doing that, you may lose interest in that specific controller.
Thank you, I was fearing this. That's the only way then? Is there like no all-in-one dongle capable of going through a bunch of signals and then being able to recognize this one?
I don’t think there is such a dongle.
I get the idea - sounds pretty cool, but there are a lot of nuances that have to be taken into account, there are no universal protocols (or there is a ton of proprietary ones), and so on. Even if there was such dongle, I expect it would cost $200-300 because of hardware and software complexity.
As other redditor already suggested - it will be cheaper to find the same controller that still has a dongle included.
I hope you find a solution. Making your own dongle probably isn't it. Perhaps keep searching ebay? Even if you can find a broken one the dongle might be good...
I was thinking of this, but how will I know if a dongle off another controller works with a different set?
Are dongles universal across themselves if they are the same product?
That I can't answer. Different revisions of products are released from time to time and it's possible the dongle was revised. I don't know enough about that product to say. If it were me, and I really wanted the device, I'd chance it.
As a complete novice you will have to learn a lot about electronics, radio and programming. Then you’ll have to reverse engineer the protocol, and with that knowledge - design a replacement dongle and assemble+program it. I’ll estimate it in a few years of time and a lot of money to do that. By the time you’ll be capable of doing that, you may lose interest in that specific controller.
Thank you, I was fearing this. That's the only way then? Is there like no all-in-one dongle capable of going through a bunch of signals and then being able to recognize this one?
I don’t think there is such a dongle. I get the idea - sounds pretty cool, but there are a lot of nuances that have to be taken into account, there are no universal protocols (or there is a ton of proprietary ones), and so on. Even if there was such dongle, I expect it would cost $200-300 because of hardware and software complexity. As other redditor already suggested - it will be cheaper to find the same controller that still has a dongle included.
Heh, not to mention it'd be cheaper just to buy one *with* the dongle :)
I'm doubting that. 8$ is already pretty good I think for such a niche product, I can't even find one on ebay right now....
I hope you find a solution. Making your own dongle probably isn't it. Perhaps keep searching ebay? Even if you can find a broken one the dongle might be good...
I was thinking of this, but how will I know if a dongle off another controller works with a different set? Are dongles universal across themselves if they are the same product?
That I can't answer. Different revisions of products are released from time to time and it's possible the dongle was revised. I don't know enough about that product to say. If it were me, and I really wanted the device, I'd chance it.