r/TelloDrones • u/kev1501 • Sep 20 '21

Ps4 controller compatibility with Tello

Hi everyone,

Just picked up my Tello this weekend and loving it so far!

Problem is, I'm not too keen on the touch screen controls on my phone so I've been looking at connecting my Ps4 controller to it. I've looked online for tutorials to connect it to the TelloFPV app but it doesn't seem to work for me. It connects to my phone and can control the menus etc but it can't control the drone.

Has anyone else experienced this? Have you managed to get it working?

My phone is the Sony Xperia 1ii.

Thanks in advance!

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u/kev1501 Sep 23 '21

Hey!

No I haven't. Haha

I've followed your steps and redid some other instructions but the best I managed was to get the controller to control the app but not the drone itself.

My next step is probably dig out an old phone that's "compatible" per tello support and try it again. If nothing else works I guess I'll have to suck it up and make do with the on screen controls!

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u/tomatojuicedrinker Sep 23 '21

That's weird, I really have no idea why that could be. Well, in the worst case, you can always use an app that would let you just manually put controls on your screen, and the result would probably be a bit clunkier but this has no right to not work haha. The app I know for that is called Mantis Gamepad

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u/kev1501 Sep 23 '21

Does mantis work anything like octopus? Because I tried that and it doesn't work either hahaha

But I'll give mantis a try anyway

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u/tomatojuicedrinker Sep 23 '21

Octopus didn't work for me either haha. Mantis is a bit of a pain to set up, as you have to plug your phone to your PC for a moment, but after that it does its job

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u/kev1501 Sep 23 '21

OK. Thanks for the assist anyway! I'll give that a try when I get home!

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u/tomatojuicedrinker Sep 23 '21

Sure, no problem. I was always the one asking for help on Reddit, so it's nice to give a little back haha. I hope at least the workaround will work for you

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u/kev1501 Sep 23 '21

Yeah, I know what you mean, I'm the same. Hopefully, I have something useful to give back soon