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Comment by nickthegreek | Hacker News Reader

Just did this update on my controller. Pretty cool process, it recognized the controller didnt have enough battery to continue and denied the update. After it charged for a bit, it was all pretty straight forward. Now to find the other controllers I got around the house and get them done.

Had to use Chrome to do all the updating though.

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Any browser supporting WebUSB should work. Chromium works, Brave works too I believe.

Firefox and Safari don't support WebUSB because they don't use a Blink-based engine. iOS browsers also won't work because they're Safari under the hood (as all browsers must be under current iOS rules, though that may change soon).

I'd recommend waiting on updating some controllers until later in the year in the hope that someone is able to reverse the firmware and bring back the play-over-IP functionality. I'm assuming that controllers with the Bluetooth firmware are harder to unlock.

I find it weird that I had to use Chrome to update the firmware of my device. And it was even weirder that the process went through smoothly.

Maybe this is better than downloading a one-off utility from a manufacturer's slow FTP and selecting a firmware file in its file picker and hoping that the combination of flashing utility version + firmware image + my hardware + my OS + the current stellar constellation aligns, and I will still have a working device after this ceremony.

Electron supports WebUSB. Just saying.

As terrible as this is to say, it could have been an Electron app.

It works on Edge for the record

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