Four Wii Remote Problem (Toshiba Bluetooth Stack)

0118999 · (This post was last modified: 09-26-2013, 01:09 AM by 0118999.)

I've had two Wii Motion Plus Remotes for a couple weeks and they've been working pretty well with the Toshiba Bluetooth Stack (in Windows 7 Pro, 64-bit). I've had a couple seemingly random disconnections, but overall they've been pretty stable. So yesterday I decided to grab a couple more Wii Remotes to bring my total up to four. Since trying to connect them, I've had no end of trouble with the bluetooth connections. I can add new connections, so all four remotes show up in the Toshiba Bluetooth Settings window. But when I try to connect a remote, they connect for about a second (the little green/yellow handshake icon pops up), then the connection drops. This happens not only for the new remotes, but for my original remotes as well.

I've tested this on two different PCs just to make sure it's not some sort of driver corruption issue. I have the exact same problem on both PCs. Has anyone else run into this problem before? I searched for it, but nothing came up. I don't know if my issue is interference between Wii Remotes (unlikely, I would think), incompatibility with the bluetooth dongle (doesn't make sense, they were working almost perfectly before this), or something else. I've even gone so far as to remove the batteries from the two new remotes, trying to connect just my original two remotes, and that doesn't work either. I'm at a loss right now.

Does anyone know what's going on?

Thanks

New info:

After deleting and recreating all of the connections in Toshiba Bluetooth Settings, one of the four remotes retains its connection. It's one of the two new ones. The other three remotes lose connection less than a second after it is established.
Edit:This happens on one of the two PCs. On the other, all four lose connection.

0118999 · 09-28-2013, 06:06 AM #2

I still have this problem. Does anyone know what's going on with this?

***MayImilae*** · 09-28-2013, 12:53 PM #3

Are you using the sync button on the bottom of the wiimotes to connect them?

0118999 · 09-28-2013, 01:08 PM #4

(09-28-2013, 12:53 PM)MaJoR Wrote: Are you using the sync button on the bottom of the wiimotes to connect them?

I've tried using the sync button and not using the sync button (using 1 + 2). It doesn't seem to have any impact.

Do the remotes, themselves, store any information. And if so, is it possible to reset these remotes somehow?

***MayImilae*** · 09-28-2013, 01:16 PM #5

Well, I have had a weird problem with my -TR once, where it refused to connect normally for no freakin reason. I re-paired it to my wii, then tried again with the Toshiba Stack and it worked perfectly. I have no idea why that was needed or why that fixed it, but it hasn't happened since. Try that?

0118999 · 09-28-2013, 01:36 PM #6

Well, I don't have my Wii available for me to do that right now. Do you think using WiiPair on a different machine could accomplish the same thing?

***MayImilae*** · 09-28-2013, 01:51 PM #7

Probably not, but you could try it. Again, I don't actually understand how or why that happened, or if it's relevant to you. So there's a ton of unknowns here.

0118999 · (This post was last modified: 09-28-2013, 02:21 PM by 0118999.)

Woohoo!!! That worked.

Here's exactly what I did:
-On a different PC, running the standard Microsoft Bluetooth Stack, I ran WiiPair (downloaded from here). I ran it 3-4 times on each Wii Motion Plus. I don't know if running it more than once is actually necessary, but I did it anyway. I made sure that all 4 remotes showed up as HID devices in "Devices and Printers".

-Then I took the remotes to the other room where there HTPC running the Toshiba Bluetooth stack is located and connected them one at a time. They all connected on the first try and stayed connected. Opened up Dolphin, it detected 4 remotes.

I think these Wii Remotes must be storing something and pairing them up with a completely different device is one way to reset that information. That's the only thing I can come up with the explain this problem.

Thanks!

***MayImilae*** · (This post was last modified: 09-28-2013, 03:05 PM by MayImilae.)

Well, from what I observed when it happened to me, I noticed that it somehow lost pairing with my wii. I had to do the sync button combination again to get it to sync up. I guess it really isn't a problem of it storing wrong information, as much as losing information? Either way, it's a very curious thing...

Anyway, thanks for giving me another use case. With this additional information I can add a note to the -TR guide about this. Before it was just a weird single occurrence that I couldn't reproduce; I didn't have enough info to know if it was real or to provide solutions.

0118999 · (This post was last modified: 07-20-2014, 02:20 AM by 0118999.)

This problem has come back, but with only two of the remotes now. Two work fine. Two immediately drop connection to both of my bluetooth adapters. The pairing "solution" is not working this time. This is an incredibly frustrating problem because I can't find any documentation on how these remotes actually work. They might as well be magic.