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Deactivate feeder bridge with new enough driver, add 'bindings provider'#1806

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@ImSapphire ImSapphire commented Apr 8, 2026

The bindings provider purely exists to facilitate binding commonly-used actions (such as yaw/full reset, (feet) mounting calibration, and toggle tracking) to controller buttons, similar to how the current feeder app does it.

The bindings provider uses Flatbuffers to send commands to the server. It will be autostarted by the server when a new enough driver which handles device feeding connects to the server, and it will deactivate the feeder bridge, meaning the existing feeder app, if still being started, should not interfere with anything.

When this is merged, there should probably be a PR prepared to the installer that will remove the feeder app.

Requires: SlimeVR/SlimeVR-OpenVR-Driver#69
Requires: SlimeVR/SolarXR-Protocol#205

TODO:

  • Actually build the bindings provider in CI and bundle it when packaging.
  • Maybe rename the bindings-provider folder? It seems silly to have svr- at the beginning.
  • Rename the executable file to 'SlimeVR-BindingsProvider[.exe]'
  • Do more testing and sanity checks on the new Windows named pipe implementation (for driver, feeder, and RPC)
  • Try to fix the stupid error when loading action manifests (SteamVR bug??)

@github-actions github-actions bot added Area: SteamVR Driver Related to the SteamVR Driver Area: Server Related to the server labels Apr 8, 2026
@ImSapphire ImSapphire force-pushed the sapphire/reset-bindings branch from a181a0b to eff50e4 Compare April 9, 2026 03:06
@ImSapphire ImSapphire force-pushed the sapphire/reset-bindings branch from 6539c8f to f6ff768 Compare April 10, 2026 02:09
@github-actions github-actions bot added the Area: Application Protocol Related to communication with apps like the GUI, overlay, games label Apr 10, 2026
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