HTC Vive Base Station

I bought this as a replacement, because the vive support team kept closing my ticket for replacing the bricked base station. Never got a label for repair or anything like they stated, just closed my ticket. I had enough of waiting a year for the label so I bought a new station. Lone behold, this station barely got any use out of it. Plugging it in shows no LED, not even the red light. Im just sick of buying expensive stations for them to break themselves in a short amount of time and not being able to get help from the support team.

I have owned 4 of these. 3 of them have failed due to internal mechanical issues. I am so fed up with these things but I need them for my VR to work. Im considering making a case for a refund for my base stations. I hope HTC will work with me.

Yes, theyre not cheap but it works. My old base station had a dying rotor and would signal a red flashing light when updated to the latest firmware. No wonder tracking was so bad! Hopefully this will last since I unplug them after a VR session.

Im not sure why some reviews are claiming the new light houses with different LED Array dont work with an older base station... I just bought this to replace an older failing unit and paired with an older base station and it syncs up and works perfectly fine, despite both having different LED Layouts. This fixed all my issues. You DO NOT need to buy a matching base station... If you are still having tracking issues... its likely another reason...

Given how important to a good VR setup your base stations are, I find that the HTC Vive base stations tend to give out a bit too soon and are a fair bit more expensive to replace than should be the case. That being said, when the base stations are installed properly and working as expected, they are a pleasure to have around. The VR experience would be far less immersive without the positional tracking that these base stations enable.

Why does this stay on when I power everything down? I feel that high pitched whining and inside movement doesnt need to be happening all night. I unplug everytime. Had to send 1 back for repair already.

Quality products working great

Bought it as a replacement, but relized it was my controller that was broken

I bought my first base station from here after one of the two I received with my Vive died. It work fine for about a month and than started blinking red (internal fault error), after some troubleshooting I figured out it wasnt possible to fix on my end and ordered another one. The second one took nearly a month to arrive (even though I had prime delivery) and was dead on arrival. Im now looking into other options to purchase either these or the 2.0 versions because Ive had no luck here.

For the amount of money the whole system costs, its crazy flaky and buggy. Ive had the thing for about a week and out of the 10 times I went to use it 3 times did it start up with not having to find the headset or to find out the battery died for the controllers or the head set couldnt find them. At least the controllers have a charge port.. but Why do the batteries die when not in use? Ive had to charge the controllers more often than I actually used the thing because the few times I went to use it, the batteries where dead. Then after they were charged. I had to waste another 20 minutes trying to pair them. For a system over $1,000 it needs to be on right away, all the time consistently. It needs to be working even when its off to be ready at a moments notice. If this thing was one of my employees, I would have fired them.