HTC Vive Base Station

I bought 2 of these base stations and they worked fine for about a month and a few weeks and then one stopped working all together with the blinking red light, which means it is unusable and needs to be replaced, lucky for me I contacted Vive and the base station was still in warranty so I can get a replacement for free. The other one is still fine and works properly so I’ve just been using one until I get my replacement.

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.

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.

Bought this to replace a base station that was broken with my Vive Pro setup (because their only other option is to mail it to them and wait a month for their team to possibly repair it). However, this does not actually work with Vive Pro, it just never gets detected, and this is the ONLY base station replacement that HTC sells. So basically if you have Vive Pro youre screwed.

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.

These are fantastic for what they are but this generation does not work in compatibility with the first generation of base stations. These are a mid cycle refresh with a different led pattern and seemingly better tracking than my 2016 vive bs, but there was zero indication on this site that they would not be compatible, if you have the first gen Vive and need to replace one of your base stations you should get it repaired through HTC, because I bought this one I had to buy a second one to get a full setup working and now I have a useless base station sitting on my table. This does track what seems to be noticeably better than the first generation so I guess thats good but I still would rather have only bought one given there listed as the same product. I have a pretty huge room scale setup and they do the job well, there are basically no dead zones or problems tracking once you go through the hassle of getting it set up which for me required a lot of waiting since I had to buy another one. At least they work really well individually since Im sure some folks will be in the same situation as me but not have the funds to get the second one

These things are like indestructible or made of Nokias because they fell from a like 13-15 ft ceiling multiple times while on and still work perfectly fine.

Excellent performance!

Works great, plug-in replacement, no room set up needed if youre just replacing a bad basestation/lighthouse.

Works as it should. Arrived in great condition.