The Wii Remote, also known as the Wiimote, is the primary controller for Nintendo's Wii console.
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android 6+ How to connect wii balance board?
I made an Android app that connected and readed input fine with Wii balance board, based on Fitscales code.
My app worked like a charm with SDK 15 & 16 until Android 4.4 (KitKat), when Android stopped the Wii support.
Wii support is now re-enabled,…

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Wiimote configuration ... and pi 2
I finally took my raspberry pi 2 and as a retro like… installing the retropie.. btw excellent…
All is ok except the connections of the wiimote…
I do everything letter by letter guide from this page…

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How to read and translate data from wii balance board
By the advise from How to connect wii balance board with android
Through 0x32,
According to data pattern below , Byte no. 0 and 1 is serve for core buttons. Another 8 bytes left is for the extension (Balance Board)
From my observation, Bit no.…

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Java API for Wiimote (Wii Remote) on Windows XP
I'm looking for a reliable Java API for a Wiimote (Wii Remote). I also need it to run on Windows XP.
Does anybody here know of one?

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Wiimote orientation as a 3D vector
I wonder if it is possible, as the Wiimote has 3 accelerometers, to convert the accelerometers readings to a 3D vector.
I know the trick to extract pitch/roll, but it only uses the X and Z accelerometers, and has the gimbal lock problem.
What I…

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Raspberry Pi not picking up Wii controller or not communicating
I am trying to connect my Wii-mote's to my Raspberry Pi, so I can use them in pygame. I know to use the Wii controller, I need to make some configurations, and I have made them. However, when I run my .sh script to connect the remotes, I am thrown…

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Pitch and Yaw from a Wiimote Motion Plus using Cwiid Python
I'm trying to extract the orientation of a wiimote using cwiid in python. I've managed to get the accelerometer values but there doesn't seem to be any object attributes relating to the purely gyroscopic data.
This guy managed to do it in python,…

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wii remote plus library
is there a library (C# or C++) that support the new wii remote plus?
In particular to access the angular data.
I managed to get the acceleration data, but using the same program as with the wii motion plus doesn't work for the angular data...Thanks…

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cannot find evdev2 module
In visual studio I am trying to upload my code onto the ev3de (which is in python). It does work but as soon as I try to run it on the ev3, the program goes straight back to the screen before. When I try and run the program there are a few errors:…
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Convert Wiimote MAC Address to PIN from C++ to Python or Javascript
In have found the following snippet posted here: http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Wiimote#Bluetooth_Pairing
There is also another code snippet to convert an Address to pin number here:…

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Reducing wiimote pitch/roll variations
I want to use the wiimote to control a cursor WITHOUT the infrared sensor bar. I'm using the pitch and roll values for this.
The problem is that when the pitch is close to 0 degrees, the roll is very unstable, and when the pitch is close to 90…

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Using Quaternion to represent gyroscope angle in C#
I'm using the WiiM+ gyro to calculate rotation.
I integrate the rates of turn along the yaw, pitch and roll axes and store it in a vector called angleSum
So for each reading, angleSum(reading) represents the y, p and r rotations from the initial…

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Android Sensors
I have a very basic question about Sensors:
Do magnetic sensors return readings w.r.t the phone's initial orientation or w.r.t the world coordinates?
What about accelerometers? Do they return values w.r.t their previous readings or is each value an…

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Readfile on HID sometimes gives wrong values
I have a connection for a WiiMote
handle = CreateFile(didetail->DevicePath, GENERIC_READ|GENERIC_WRITE, FILE_SHARE_READ, NULL, OPEN_EXISTING, FILE_FLAG_OVERLAPPED, NULL);
if(handle != INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE) {
opened = true;
readReportEvent =…

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How can I read stderr with python if I'm NOT using subprocess?
I am working with the cwiid library, which is a library written in C, but used in python. The library allows me to use a Wiimote to control some motors on a robot. The code is running as a daemon on an embedded device without a monitor, keyboard, or…

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