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Wiimote as a lightgun
Ginsu Victim:
The sensor doesn't connect to anything. It's just two IR LEDs. The wiimote reads their location. That's all. The communication to the PC is through the bluetooth USB dongle.
Games001:
This is odd.
I can SYNC the USB from my PC and the WiiMote I just picked up (shows in Bluetooth Manager as a RLV unit - mouse HID), but the WiiMote does not seem to 'turn on' after the sync is done. Power button does nothing, no sound from the mini speaker.. nothing.
Any clues as to why it would do this?
rdenis:
You have it recgnized by your BT device software but you need to now establish the BT connection and then use software to control ithe wiimote.
To connect - hold down buttons 1 and 2 simultaneously (keep holding them down) and make sure the 4 blue lights keep flashing (you may need to try several times). This will allow the WiiMote to now connect to your dongle. In your Bluetooth manger software, somewhere will be the option to connect - try right clicking on the RLV Unit.
Once you have a connection established try WiinRemote: http://onakasuita.org/wii/WiinRemote_v2007.1.13.zip
WiinRemote allows you to control the pointer via the internal Wii motors or InfraRed. It also allows you to assign mouseclicks and keypresess to any of the buttons on the wiimote.
BTW - so far in my testing I have found the Wii sensor bar much more effective then the EMS TopGun sensor bar - this on a 28 inch LCD monitor in my mame cabinet. Very precise and smooth.
I am running into issues in Mame not recgnizing my Bluetooth HID joystrick properly - both lauching via command line and out of Mala. All the wiimote buttons and sensore work in the Mala frontend. However in Mame, buttons aren't recongized at all while the IR is, so not sure yet what the issue is.
Games001:
It's odd how I can sync the WiiMote and the Bluetooth, but the connection only lasts for a few seconds. Then it seems to drop.
JKJudgeX:
Games001: I sort of have that difficulty as well, and I think it's related to our BT drivers. It still works though... you step through the "add new BT device" stuff, and with mine, even though it goes off, if I turn it back on, it completes the add.
Read what rdenis said, it's accurate. Once you get it connected and going, you'll be able to do a lot of neat stuff with glovepie scripts.
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