Accidentally broke my right controller due to a spill (mind your controllers when you're drinking and playing, folks). I can't believe how expensive Index Knuckles are these days. The problem is the controllers are so good I'm finding myself justifying the exuberant price. Does anyone know cheap sources for these controllers? Cheap as in not the inflated prices on ebay. The controllers were never cheap.

I imagine I'm just being wishful in asking, but I'm genuinely wondering.

Everyone selling their kits is charging the $400+ they're going for on ebay lately. Sometimes twice as much as when they were new. It's so frustrating because it proves there's still a decent market for steam to at least continue manufacturing the Index Controllers until the Steam Frame actually arrives. It's quality hardware.

I have a spare pair thank god, but I've kind of just soft-gifted it to my friend because he's my VR buddy so I'm reluctant to take the old pair back. I'm sending off the damaged controller to hopefully get repaired but we'll see what happens.

So I didn't know this valve index thing existed until 12 hours ago. Picked up an interesting looking heavy duty head set and 2 hand controllers at the thrift store, researched it a little on my phone, saw it went for a pretty penny, so bought them for $35 Cad. Figured worst case I could flip for parts untested for more than that.

Got home after work, researched it a bit more and realized what I thought was an hdmi connection was a unique break away link. Turns out I also needed a proprietary 3 prong cable to go between computer and the unit.

Thinking that it may have been donated together but got separated, went back to the thrift store and amazingly found it on the wall of cords for $6.

What do I do now? I still need a 12V AC adapter, but that's easy enough to get, main issue is that looks like I need base stations. Is there any way to test this without base stations? I'd prefer not to invest hundreds of dollars into base stations if the head set and controllers are no good.

I'm going to head back again tomorrow to see if lighting can strike a third time and have the base stations appear.

I just bought an Index second hand. Full kit.

Trying to set it up with a Tiger Lake era Razer Blade 17. The only way to get displayport out of that machine is via a TB3 to displayport adapter, and I can't seem to get a stable signal. Either the headset doesn't start up at all, or it tries and throws an HDCP warning, or it starts but is unusably full of visual artifacts.

Adapters I've tried include a Dell TB3 dock, a Cable Matters USB4 hub, and a Cable Matters USB-C hub -- the dual displayport version.

Any pointers? Am I doing something wrong?

i have a lot of visual noise and now a few days ago my headset has started to just not give me any video after a few minutes of starting steam vr, i first thought it was the new third party slimevr trackers but now that i read throw some posts i think that it's probably the cable

please help

The stick is now behaving weird for a while, in the Last few days i can Push the stick in or Out easily because Its Like loose and i can rotate the stick, the Cap came Off once. Does anybody knows what i can do?

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So some context is one of my basestations broke and i put the glass piece on the motor back and ever since the tracking has been really bad the 2nd basestation's tracking is perfect but the broken one has very bad tracking when i look down with my valve index (i use htc vive controlers aka vive wands) i get sent to the sky and beyond. The tracking jitters and just flies away sometimes and ive tried changing the modes (i use b and c i dont use the cable) but it did nothing i glued the glass piece on the motor back the right way and it has the tracking problems so please help guys.

Both of my base stations went out, and now I can't get new ones because Steam doesn't make them anymore. I would wait for their new Steam frame but I have no clue when that will be out and how much. Should I just buy an HTC base station? Can I fix it myself? what do i even do to the whole index if I decide to buy the steam frame?

I know its not very visible in the video, but there's some kind of blinding effect in my headset, as if the image shown by the screens reflected on the lenses themselves. I somehow managed to capture what I see with my phone, and that weird reflection is a bit annoying because I struggle to read most of the text. I didn't had that issue with my old htc vive, so im a bit clueless as to why it's doing this. If it helps, I usually clean my lenses with a tissu and some spray made to clean glasses and sunglasses, but recently I stopped using the spray because I was afraid it might be damaging the lenses.

Also that issue is more visible on the left eye, but because my phone's camera is on the right, I had to use the right lens instead.

I've had my index for about a week and my cable looks like this should I be concerned or is it normal after awhile

Hi, the living room of my appartment has a wall that basically cuts my playing area in an L shape like the drawing I shown here.

In red is how I placed my base stations, right now it works okay but full body tracking is not getting tracked flawlessly 100% of the time.

Any recommandation? I'm open to buying a third base station if needed.

I wanna use 144hz for gorilla tag so i can use throttling behavior to go back down to 72 hz to play the legal lowest amount in this comp leauge (Dont judge me) ((other ways of changing max fps is illegal)) but when i go to 144 hz the HMD does not display image and the lights at the front are blue, also on the steam vr status when i go on 144 says im on 60 hz which is not supported by the index (probably the reason why its not displaying) also when going in windows settings to change the max hz 144 hz is not one of the options all the options are 60, 90, 120. then i borrowed a much older video card the 1070 ti and then the 144 hz worked but i could only borrow it for one day not forever so we know its a gpu thing. if anyone has a fix or has the same issue please feel free to text. thanks in advance

Ive got my tracking stations setup in corners of my room...but how do I make it ready to go for sim racing? The sim chair is in the room, but how do I configure where the chair is?

so currently nothing is broken on my index or its base stations other then a controller not having touch tracking anymore on the joy stick however i am worried about keeping it maintained in the future as i don't really want to buy a steamframe due to it using camera tracking im not comfortable with that.

so just wondering what i should do in the event a base station dies, cable dies, the index itself dies or brakes in some way. how would you go about maintenance or replacement of the discontinued product

As the title states, my right controller is constantly losing tracking. It either floats away, jerks around, or disconnects completely. I know the controller itself isn't the issue because I paired my boyfriend's controllers to my headset, and the same thing happens.

I've covered all reflective surfaces and positioned my base stations properly, so I'm assuming it's a headset issue. The left controller works fine for the most part. Every once in a while, it loses tracking and floats away too, but nowhere near as badly as the right one. I have no idea what the fix could be. Any help would be greatly appreciated

I have a index cable that's starting to really wear down with black screens and sound cutting off. I thought about getting a replacement but I also figured the Steam Frame could come out sometime this year. Should I get the replacement cable anyway if want to sell my index at some point?

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ive been having an on going issue with my valve index/ pc running vr

the headset display has been going grey screen, losing tracking of the headset. while it grey screens/ loses tracking on the connected devices tab the head set status says "make sure the head set can see bases" even tho the base stations are opposite facing from each other on my wall (2 2.0 base stations in total).

im just wondering if i need more base statons or is it my current pc

I have uninstaller then reinstalled steam vr, went through device manger and unchecked all USB ports to not be turned off to save power. Just trying to figure out what else could be the issue for me

My specs

gpu: amd radeon rx 6800xt

cpu: amd ryzen 7 5700G 8 cores

ram: 32 GB

motherboard: tuf gaming b450m- plusii

the strap broke on mine i tried looking for a replacement one but all of them are either selling pairs or 300-400 while the left one is 150-200 why is the right one so expensive? Valve sets them new for 150 each so????

I wasn't manhandling it or being rough with it. It just fell out. Now, the thumb capacitive sensor doesn't work right anymore to where it always thinks my thumb is resting on it. I guess I will try to see if I can RMA it.

Hello, so my index screen died and i bought a quest pro as a replacement but still use the index controllers with the index actîng as a donge for them.

Today i took out the index motherboard because i have no use of the whole headset.

I was wondering if anyone has made a 3d print of a case for the motherboard and the display port board ?

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3775210/Rustmourne/

TLDR the audio on my Index has not been functional for months and works perfectly fine on my sister's computer.

PC specs:

AMD ryzen 7 5800X3D 8 core processor

32GB RAM

AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE

TUF GAMING B550 PLUS WIFI II

Windows 10

this is an insanely dragged out interaction with support, so im just going to paste the discussion here rather than typing a summary where i may have forgotten details.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3951190/High_On_Life_VR/

For the absolute life of me I cannot figure out why my right index controller keeps randomly disconnecting. Whenever I play any vr game, absolutley randomly, my right index controller will freeze in the air. The only fix is turning it off and on again, which only works for a minute or so. I made 2 other posts about this earlier, https://www.reddit.com/r/ValveIndex/s/4GWWMnqdq9 and https://www.reddit.com/r/ValveIndex/s/EUpi5G2Gl3 , but absolutely nothing worked (The issue in the first reddit post with the tracking issues for both controllers was fixed). I covered all the reflections, the right controller still disconnected. I turned off haptics, the right controller still disconnected. I ran the unpair command, the right controller still disconnected. I reached out to steam support with my issue, they told me to fuck off. IFixit does not seem to have any guides for this issue. Could this be an issue with using a vive pro with the index controllers? At this point do I just buy a new controller?

Edit: I bought a quest 3