[Resolved] Help with Wiimote on Ubuntu

[nano351]

Hello,

I need some help getting my wiimote to work properly with dolphin. What's happening right now is I can get it to connect through dolphin and I can start up new super mario bros wii and get through a menu or two but after a short while the controller stops doing anything in the game. The controller still says it's connected to player 1 and the point this happens varies (and I know I can get further places in this game using an emulated wiimote). I've tried two different wiimotes with the same remote.

Some info on my stystem

OS: Ubuntu 13.04

The wiimotes:
Official nintendo wiimote. labeled on the wiimote is RVL-003
Official nintendo wiiomte plus. labeled on the wiimote is RVL-036

My system's bluetooth is integrated into my motherboard:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131701


I also have this usb bluetooth dongle available which I could try using but I do not know how to configure my system to use the usb dongle instead of the integrated bluetooth:
http://www.iogear.com/product/GBU421/


Any advice?

[admin89]

Err ...Not the best advice for you but you should use Windows x64 and Toshiba Stack

[nano351]

(07-19-2013, 12:28 AM)admin89 Wrote: Err ...Not the best advice for you but you should use Windows x64 and Toshiba Stack

Yeah that doesn't really help because I would rather not boot into windows everytime I want to play wii games :x Thanks for the help though!

EDIT:

An update. I can reconnect the wii mote to give a couple more inputs before it disconnects and if I connect both player 2 stays connected fine but player 1 gets booted off quickly

[ExtremeDude2]

There is a way to use motion+ on Ubuntu, but I don't know how so ask Shonumi :3

[nano351]

I just resolved the issue and I feel like an idiot. There's a bug introduced somewhere between 3.5-0 and 3.5-1579 that is causing this problem because when I switched back to 3.5-0 everything worked fine!

[Shonumi]

admin89 Wrote:Err ...Not the best advice for you but you should use Windows x64 and Toshiba Stack

Or better yet, the OP can use a real Linux distro, like Slackware or Arch Linux :p

Well, the latest revisions have a lot of fixes that you might be interested in (sound in a lot of games under HLE for example), so it would be helpful to know how to connect Wiimotes in the latest revisions. This is how I connect Wiimotes to Dolphin. Works for every revision I've tried

1) Make sure you have libbluetooth installed on your system. Open up a terminal (or however Unity executes commands) and execute "bluetoothd" as root (e.g. sudo bluetoothd). This should drop an icon somewhere for Blueman, the GTK bluetooth manager (install that if necessary as well), and if it doesn't show up, just run "blueman-manager".
2) Run Dolphin. Click the "Wiimote" button in Dolphin and enable Continuous Scanning (makes life a lot easier), then hold the 1 + 2 buttons. The Wiimote should hook up automatically, no pairing necessary.
3) If you have Continuous Scanning enabled, from now on you can just boot games and hold the 1 + 2 buttons and it'll make the connection easily.

If you're successful, Blueman should show you which Wiimotes are connected and their signal strength, transfer rate, etc. It'll also show you a green dot over its system icon letting you know something's connected.

[nano351]

(07-19-2013, 03:10 AM)Shonumi Wrote:

' Wrote:Err ...Not the best advice for you but you should use Windows x64 and Toshiba Stack

Or better yet, the OP can use a real Linux distro, like Slackware or Arch Linux :p

Well, the latest revisions have a lot of fixes that you might be interested in (sound in a lot of games under HLE for example), so it would be helpful to know how to connect Wiimotes in the latest revisions. This is how I connect Wiimotes to Dolphin. Works for every revision I've tried

1) Make sure you have libbluetooth installed on your system. Open up a terminal (or however Unity executes commands) and execute "bluetoothd" as root (e.g. sudo bluetoothd). This should drop an icon somewhere for Blueman, the GTK bluetooth manager (install that if necessary as well), and if it doesn't show up, just run "blueman-manager".
2) Run Dolphin. Click the "Wiimote" button in Dolphin and enable Continuous Scanning (makes life a lot easier), then hold the 1 + 2 buttons. The Wiimote should hook up automatically, no pairing necessary.
3) If you have Continuous Scanning enabled, from now on you can just boot games and hold the 1 + 2 buttons and it'll make the connection easily.

If you're successful, Blueman should show you which Wiimotes are connected and their signal strength, transfer rate, etc. It'll also show you a green dot over its system icon letting you know something's connected.

I'm not sure if you saw my post just before yours but, there seems to be some bugs in 3.5-1579 that are causing issues for me. I went back and did some testing and found that if I removed the emulated wiimote settings from the configuration file, it would start working again! But I started running into problems after loading a few games and now neither wiimotes are cooperating with this build. I switched back to 3.5-0 and everything still works fine. It's just a pain though because there's a lot of fixes for games I enjoy in 3.5-1579 (including HLE audio fixes) and that nice auto scan feature for the wiimotes but random issues keep popping up for wiimotes on that build for me

[LordVador]

(07-19-2013, 04:23 AM)nano351 Wrote: there seems to be some bugs in 3.5-1579 that are causing issues for me.

Try to find from which build this issue seems to exist for you.

Btw have you tried very latest builds (currently 3.5-1625)?

[Shonumi]

nano351 Wrote:I'm not sure if you saw my post just before yours but, there seems to be some bugs in 3.5-1579 that are causing issues for me.

Actually, I did see your post, and that's why I responded. 3.5 is fine for a number of games, but I was trying to help you use newer revisions. How are you installing Dolphin? Are you using the Ubuntu builds from this website? I would try compiling it yourself: http://code.google.com/p/dolphin-emu/wiki/Linux_Build It's never failed me as of yet.

[nano351]

Right now I'm using this repository to install it with apt-get:
https://code.google.com/p/dolphin-emu/wiki/DolphinUbuntuPackages

installing dolphin-emu gives me 3.5-0 and dolphin-emu-master gives 3.5-1579. I'll try using the version on the website and building it myself and see if either cause issues

edit:
3.5-1625 from the dolphin-emu.org download page works perfect! Well sound from the wiimote is garbled but I didn't really expect that to work anyways. Thanks, I didn't realize that linux builds were available from that page