Setting up Reset Bindings

Reset bindings are one of the most essential features to set up for an enhanced experience, allowing you to trigger resets quickly without taking focus away from your game. In this guide, we'll show you how to set them up.

SteamVR binds via bindings provider

To set up reset bindings using the built-in bindings provider, do the following:

Head over to your SteamVR settings (make sure "Advanced Settings" is enabled).
Go to Controllers > "Show Binding UI" > "Show More Applications".
Scroll down and select "SlimeVR-Bindings-Provider".
Click the plus icon to the right of the button you'd like to use for triggering the reset.
Select the Button mode.
Set one of the inputs (Click/Touch, or Long/Held/Touch which are visible after clicking More options) to the reset you'd like to trigger.

All done! You’re now ready to trigger quick yaw resets in-game. You can even bind a reset to a combination of controller buttons in the Chords menu of the bindings editor. Fastest reset in the west.

Keyboard Shortcuts

The SlimeVR Server has the following default key bindings:

CTRL+ALT+SHIFT+U for Quick reset.
CTRL+ALT+SHIFT+Y for Reset.
CTRL+ALT+SHIFT+I for Mounting reset.
CTRL+ALT+SHIFT+O for Pause tracking.

These keybindings can be configured by editing the following lines of the vrconfig.yml file:

keybindings:
  fullResetBinding: "CTRL+ALT+SHIFT+Y"
  yawResetBinding: "CTRL+ALT+SHIFT+U"
  mountingResetBinding: "CTRL+ALT+SHIFT+I"
  pauseTrackingBinding: "CTRL+ALT+SHIFT+O"

If you want to bind these to your controller, you will need an additional application such as:

OVR Advanced Settings ($7.99 USD on Steam or free on GitHub)
OVR Toolkit ($12 USD on Steam)

OVR Advanced Settings Bindings

Make sure OVR Advanced Settings is closed before following these steps or you will encounter problems.

In the Windows Explorer window, enter %appdata%/AdvancedSettings-Team/OVR Advanced Settings.ini in Address bar and press Enter. Notepad with the OVR Advanced Settings.ini file contents should open.
Find the keyboardOne, keyboardTwo, and keyboardThree lines and replace them with the following lines:
```
keyboardOne=^*>y ; CTRL+ALT+SHIFT+Y - Reset
keyboardTwo=^*>u ; CTRL+ALT+SHIFT+U - Quick reset
keyboardThree=^*>i ; CTRL+ALT+SHIFT+I - Mounting reset
```
Note: If you changed default SlimeVR Server key bindings, refer to Keyboard Input Guide.
In SteamVR Dashboard, open OVR Advanced Settings and select Bindings. If you don't see the icon for OVR Advanced Settings on your dashboard, try running OVR Advanced Settings from your Steam library and check if the icon appeared on your dashboard.
In the opened window, select the Misc tab.
Double-click the plus sign near the desired button name to add a binding.
In the opened dialog window, select BUTTON.
Click None near the desired button action. To see more button actions, click Show more.
In the opened Boolean Actions window, select Keyboard Shortcut One.
Repeat previous two steps for Keyboard Shortcut Two and Keyboard Shortcut Three.

OVR Toolkit

If you do not wish to bind keyboard shortcuts directly to your controller buttons, OVR Toolkit's "wristwatch" has Macro functionality that can be used to trigger Resets and Quick Resets.

Demo GIF:

Open the OVR Toolkit settings, it may be in the system tray.
Click on "Settings" on the top, then "Setup Wrist Macros" on the right.
Click on "Macro Icons" at the bottom, this will open a folder that you can place PNGs for custom macro icons. Download and copy these two icon files for the resets into there. Reset Icon. Quick Reset Icon.
Click "Add Macro", and click "Add key press" until you have enough for each key of the binding. (Default needs 4).
For each key in sequence, click "Rebind" and then push one of the binding's buttons once. Having the letter as the bottom key is important, as that is the order the keys are pressed. Entering Y+CTRL+ALT+SHIFT would not work, but CTRL+ALT+SHIFT+Y would.
Click the blank icon square on the left side of the entry, and choose the corresponding icon. (To differentiate, Reset is the basic reset symbol. Quick Reset has the flame in the middle.)
Repeat steps 5-7 for the other binding.
Click "Save Changes", and then check the Macros tab on your OVR Toolkit wristwatch for your new bindings! (You may need to restart OVR Toolkit!)

Example GIF of adding the Quick Reset binding:

Warning

Currently, the SlimeVR server resets the positions the instant the binding is pressed, which is not ideal if you are looking down at your extended arms. However, this can be overcome with a simple AutoHotKey script until a configuration option is added to add a countdown to those bindings. Save this script with a .ahk extension.

If you want this script to also start up with Windows, right click it, Create Shortcut, and copy that shortcut to C:/Users/<YourUsername>/AppData/Roaming/Microsoft/Windows/Start Menu/Programs/Startup

#NoEnv  ; Recommended for performance and compatibility with future AutoHotkey releases.
; #Warn  ; Enable warnings to assist with detecting common errors.
SendMode Input  ; Recommended for new scripts due to its superior speed and reliability.
SetWorkingDir %A_ScriptDir%  ; Ensures a consistent starting directory.

; Reset
$^+!y::
SoundBeep
Sleep 3000
SoundBeep
SoundBeep
SoundBeep
Send, ^!+y
return

; Quick Reset
$^+!u::
SoundBeep
Sleep 3000
SoundBeep
SoundBeep
Send, ^!+u
return

; The beeps are just for extra feedback and can be safely removed.

Notes

If you reset your playspace (for example long pressing Oculus button on Quest), you will need to do a tracker reset.
OpenVR Advanced Settings' keybinds may not work well in certain languages. If this is the case for you, start SteamVR with your system's language set to English.
SlimeVR Server uses Java 17.
If you need the SlimeVR Steam driver you can find it here.

Created by Eiren, edited by adigyran, calliepepper, smeltie, emojikage and nullstalgia, styled by calliepepper. Videos created by zrock35. OVRT GIFs created by nullstalgia.

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