Connect a Wii Remote to your PCThis article is about connecting your Wii Remote to a PC. It describes various tools and programs to get you started. Once connected you can use it for various purposes like gaming, controlling slide in a presentation or just zapping through your audiovideo playlist. You will need A Wii remotea Wii compatible bluetooth devicesome softwareand optionally a Nunchuck. First check if your bluetooth device is compatible with the Wii Remote or buy one that is. You can find a list at Wii. Li. org. I used a Sitecom Bluetooth adapter which came with the TOSHIBA bluetooth stack on CD. The Microsoft Bluetooth Stack will not work, so you have to installl another one. I was lucky, I could use the CD that came with the Bluetooth adapter. If yours does not come with a usable stack try another BT stack. Quote With GlovePIE you can now play any game, or control any software or MIDI devices, using whatever controls you want. This includes joysticks, gamepads, mice. Windows 7 Carbon Theme on this page. FreePIE Programmable Input Emulator is a C utility for bridging and emulating input devices. Ipswitch Ws Ftp Professional 12.4. It has applications primarily in video gaming but can also be used for. I tried to connect my Wii Remote to a HP nc. I was using the standard drivers from HP. Unfortunatly I do not own the laptop, so I could not try different drivers. If you are using windows go to the next chapter. Linux users can go to chapter 3. Glovepie Wiimote Mouse Scripts' title='Glovepie Wiimote Mouse Scripts' />Windows. To connect the Wii Remote press button 1 and 2 simultaneously or use the red sync button. This will make finable by any other Bluetooth device. Let your PC search for devices and select Nintendo RVL CNT 0. Connect it without using a pin code. Wiin. Remote. Wii. Remote is an easy to use application that will allow you use your Wii Remote in windows. It provides mouse emulation and allows you to map some buttons to key presses. Unfortunately Nunchuck support is not really stable yet and the accelerometers in it are not used. I used it for testing, just download it from http onakasuita. Here is a screenshot of Wiin. Remote There, it is done The Wii Remote is now connected to a windows PC. Glove. PIEGlove. PIE is a more complicated program whihc uses a scripting language to do its work. From http carl. Quote With Glove. PIE you can now play any game, or control any software or MIDI devices, using whatever controls you want. This includes joysticks, gamepads, mice, keyboards, MIDI input devices, HMDs, Wiimotes, trackers, and of course, Virtual Reality gloves After downloading Glo. PIE from http carl. Here are some scripts for the Wii Remote. Needless to say that Glove. PIE possibilities are endless and that this allows you to use the Wii Remote the way you like it Blue. Tunes. At http home. Blues. Tunes. It is able to control the following players i. Tunes, Winamp, Napster, Windows Media Player, VLC, Quintessential Player, Media Player Classic, Foobar. Zune. I tested it with Winamp and seems to work quite well. It uses the Managed Library for Nintendos Wiimote by Brian Peek. Others. Tha above three programs allow are the best Wii Remote applications for Windows. Of course the are a lot more, here are some Linux. Although linux is getting more and more user friendly al lot of things cost most time and effort than you are used from Windows. But in return you will be able you modify all code and thus your Wii Remote behavior. So dont be scared, just follow the instructions and you will soon be making weird gestures in front of your linux pc. Be sure to have Blue. Z installed, this is the official linux bluetooth stack. Its in installed by default on Ubuntu 7. You can use the hcitool to scan for bluetooth devices in range and get their bluetooth address. Press button 1 and 2 on the Wii Remote simultaneously and type hcitool scan. This will give you something like josubuntu sudo hcitool scan. Password Scanning 0. FD C3 2. 8 8. 0       Nintendo RVL CNT 0. To connect to your Wii Remote just type josubuntu sudo hidd search. Searching Connecting to device 0. A2 9. 8Or use the bluetooth address you have obtained with hcitool sudo hidd connect 0. FD C3 2. 8 8. 0After being connected to the PC the Wii Remote LEDs will continuously flash. Disconnect with sudo hidd unplug 0. FD C3 2. 8 8. 0WMDWMD stands for Wanna Mote Dammit and provides functionality to use your Wii Remote as a mouse and generates keyboard events for buttons. WMD is written in python which is very easy to modify. You can get it at http For. The. Wii. N. org. For. The. Wii. N. Assuming python is installed on your sytem you will need the python bluez, python xlib and python pygame packages installed. In Ubuntu you can simply install these using sudo apt get install python bluez python xlib python pygame. Wii. Li states that py. OSD, OSD, py numpy, py numpy ext and python matplotlib are also required. But in the current version 0. WMD the use is disabled or obsolete, see WMDDESIGN. Then check if the uinpit kernel module is loaded. Just use lsmod to check wich modules are loaded. Reported Speech Review Pdf. Ubuntu needed the module to be loaded manually, this done with the modprobe command. Here is how to check if the module is loaded, then load the modules and check again josjos ubuntu lsmod grep inputjosjos ubuntu sudo modprobe uinputjosjos ubuntu lsmod grep inputuinput                 1. In Config. py edit the parameters UINPUTDEV and MYWIIMOTEADDR so that they match your system. Now we are ready to run WMD When all is right you will be shown graph The console windows will show some logging and if the Wii Remote has the sensor bar or any other infrared light source in sight the mousepointer will be taken over. The design of WMD is pretty clear and allow you to add your own module with some knowledge of Python. CWiid. CWiid is a collection of Linux tools written in C for interfacing to the Nintendo Wiimote. CWiid consists of three components libcwiid API to integrate the Wii Remote into your applicationwmgui a graphical representation of all the a data gathered by the Wii Remotewminput eventmousejoystick driver that allows you to emulate mouse joystick and keyboard events. First get the packages required for CWiid sudo apt get install libbluetooth. Having done that it is time to donwload, compile and install CWiid wget http abstrakraft. Start wmgui by typing wmgui. Connect the Wii Remote via File Connect, then set all mark under the Settings menu. To control the mouse close wmgui and start wminput. To do this you need root rights or allow acces to devinputuinput josubuntu sudo sh c echo KERNELuinput, GROUPadmin etcudevrules. Wii Remote to emulate the mouse which is not really comfortable. To use the sensorbar or any other infrared source add somelines to xorg. Somewhere near the other Input. Device sections add Section Input. DeviceIdentifier      WiimoteDriver          evdevOption          Name          Nintendo WiimoteEnd. Section. In the Server. Layout section add Input. Device     Wiimote Always. CoreRestart X safest way is to reboot your system, log back in and type Now can use the use the Wii Remote the way you are used in the Wii menusConclusion. There are several programs that give you the possibility to use a Wii Remote on a Windows or Linux PC. Each program has is pros and cons. Some are highly flexible and others are really easy to use. My personal favorite is CWiid because it seems to be really stable, fully supports the Nunchuck and is running on Linux . For the Windows users I can recomend Glove. PIE and if you are more in to programming dive into the Managed Library for Nintendos Wiimote. Links and references.