2 Wiimotes to PC, Need 1 or 2 Bluetooth Dongles?

[Nyukki]

Am hooking up two Wiimotes to my HTPC to use as light guns, does anyone know if this requires one or two USB bluetooth dongles?

Also, if anyone comes across any good tutorials on setting up Wiimotes to use as light guns in mame and other emulators feel free to share, the ones I've found so far all seem to be in Spanish.

Thanks

[Hazerd]

How do you use a Wii mote on the PC with just a Bluetooth dongle? dont you need a sensor bar?

[fastbilly1]

One dongle is plenty powerful enough for two wiimotes. That should be able to support seven. Now how you configure it in Glovepie, thats beyond me.

[Nyukki]

dont you need a sensor bar?

Indeed, I've seen USB Wii sensor bars on taobao.com

One dongle is plenty powerful enough for two wiimotes.

Thanks dude, I haven't looked at Glovepie etc. very closely yet. If I do get everything up and running maybe I'll post a little guide up here.

[fastbilly1]

Thanks dude, I haven't looked at Glovepie etc. very closely yet. If I do get everything up and running maybe I'll post a little guide up here.

Awesome. Id love to see it. I never really learned enough about Glovepie and I really should. Playing Wii games on Dolphin really makes them shine.

[alienjesus]

How do you use a Wii mote on the PC with just a Bluetooth dongle? dont you need a sensor bar?

The sensor bar doesn't actually do the sensing part, so if you really wanted do you could just use turn on the wii and put the sensor bar on top of your pc instead.

or alternatively, use some candles, but I prefer not to get candle wax on my pc.

[tintinmayo]

There are also third party sensor bars. I use one myself, it runs on 3 AAAs.

[Nyukki]

Awesome. Id love to see it.

One day, one day...

[Cronozilla]

You do not need a dongle per bluetooth device, one BT dongle can support many. It CANNOT use a Microsoft Stack Driver if you want to use it with a Wii Remote.

Connecting it is very straight forward, you just open the Bluetooth software's manager (most have their own) connect a new device, hit one and two on the remote so it can discover it, don't use a password (you have no way of inputting it) and it should connect.

Once you do that, you can open up GlovePie to map to Direct Input or PPJoy or whatever, really.

You can see if GlovePie can see the remote very easily:

Code: Select all

debug = "Wii Remote Exitst: " + Wiimote.exists

Then run it, the text will show up in the bar at the top.

This is to generically see whether or not any Wii remote is visible. I would STRONGLY suggest you use Wiimote1, Wiimote2, etc to identify them. It makes it easier to add to and reuse the scripts.

Also, look at the documentation that's included, it explains how to use everything. Including the pre-written smoothing functions.

Basically, if you want to make something that works nice, you have to put a little logic into the script to check for players, and stuff like that. I can share some things I've done over time if people are interested. I'd be interested in a script sharing thread.

Also, if you're hard up for a sensor bar (which is purely used for pointing on the Wii remote) you can use two candles instead. The Sensor bar is just IR LEDs ... the heat of the candles has the same function. You need at least two.

GlovePie is also useful if you want to re-purpose a 360 controller or PS3 Bluetooth remote ... the DS3 is not a simple to connect device, I've never gotten it to work properly, myself.

[Nyukki]

You do not need a dongle per bluetooth device...

Many thanks for the useful info. Didn't get round to working on it this weekend but hopefully in the next few days. I already have a bluetooth wireless mini keyboard/trackpad that is always connected, maybe its bluetooth dongle will also pick up the wiimotes without the need for further dongles.