WiiLi.org

[mikey]

UPDATE: Now it can map Wiimote buttons to the keyboard.
Also, wiimote-api has been separated and statically linked.
New link - http://code.google.com/p/wiimote-api/downloads/list
Videos of wiimote-gui in action
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOkhND0dbWE (long version) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrN15FYRuRU (short version)



I wrote a program over the past couple of weeks. It's a wiimote tester, with a gui for windows.

It's not very fleshed out, but it's got the following functionality:

• can control mouse with wiimote IR pointer (not with motion sensor)
  
• outputs the full HID report to the window
  
• toggle all four LEDs in any combination
  
• toggle rumble
  

but. the whole reason I bring it up even with CarlKenner's scripted option, is that it's written in C. it's 35kb currently unoptimized. and because it's in C, it might work as a better solution when ported to linux than the current python one. since, well, the goal of this whole website is supposedly to make a linux port to the wii.

to use it:
connect your wiimote to the computer. it should show up on your device manager as an HID-compliant game controller or something. of course, i haven't tested any computer setup except my own, so for reference, I'm using a Dell internal TrueMobile bluetooth module with the microsoft stack. I got rid of the dell stack a long time ago, so i haven't tested it with that.

once you're connected, turn on your wii to use the sensor bar(or any IR source, but preferably an IR LED source). then run the program and clicking on the IR button should make the wiimote control your mouse. i programmed the trigger to be the left mouse button and the 'a' button to be the right mouse button.

i still need to tweak the range because the value 0xFE doesn't scale perfectly to 65535 which is the edge of the screen. also, i need separate the wiimote api from the gui, but that requires me to learn windows threading which will take a little bit.

which brings me to another question, i haven't licensed a lot of software and i was wondering what the pros and cons of various licenses are. is there a link? if i wanted it to be able to be used in wiili, would it have to be GPL'd? what about LGPL?

let me know if there are any problems and i can try to see if i can fix them. also, what other things should i implement? i know there are a lot of things. should i use the motion sense data? i'm hesitant, because i don't want to fiddle with calibration data and brick wiimotes left and right.

-mike

Scroll down for a link.

[mikey]

you're wondering where the link is? well, apparently I need 10 posts, which I don't have.

hold on.

[mikey]

well. until i get 10 posts, it's

http://mikeyin.org/wii

replace the spaces with a '.' and a '/' respectively

[mikey]

appropriate additions would probably include downloading and uploading miis. there are programs that are doing that already, but it'd be nice to have it in one?

[mikey]

now i just need to wait 7 days.

can an admin edit my post to have an address or someone just post a reply with a working address?

[morphemass]

Great to see this stuff but its wasted code sans source (as in I have WMD running on Linux already but I cant get your exe running now can I *grin*)

[mikey]

well, i don't want to release the source before i do two things, seperate the wiimote stuff from the window, and pick a license