Rly need help w/ bluetooth adapter, Is there another option besides an adpater?

[kingb33]

Hi i rly need some help. I've always used the bluetooth adapter method to use my wiimote with my PC. But for some reason My PC wont recognize/detect my rocketfish bluetooth adapter after I upgraded to WINDOWS 7. At least I "think" it was the upgrade that caused the problem? Everytime I plugin the bluetooth adapter it's recognized as a USB device BUT NOT detected as a Bluetooth device. I even went and bought a brand new Rocketfish Windows 7 micro bluetooth adpater last night and I have the same exact problem. I'll plugin the adapter and hear the little USB detected sound. I'll try to install the drivers and its says its going to update the WINCOM but then when its searches for the bluetooth device it's never detected. Neither my new adpater or the old one. Ive tried and googled everything. Bluetooth services on my PC are all started and fine. It worked fine on VISTA. It's rly driving me nuts trying to figure it out. I was reading some stuff about COM ports? But it was confusing. Does anyone please have any insight on this?

So do I have to use "specifically "use a "bluetooth adapter" to use my wiimote with my PC? Can it be some other type of a bluetooth device? Is their another way to do it?

Thanks

[darkshadw]

Look at the manufacturer's website for the drivers .

[kingb33]

(08-08-2011, 05:10 AM)darkshadw Wrote: Look at the manufacturer's website for the drivers .

Hi, already did all that. Many times over. I "have" the actual driver installation disk for Windows7 from the adpater i bought last night. When i try to install the driver (it wants to update WINCOM) I get the message "pls make sure bluetooth device is plugged in" and it is plugged in.

Do I have to use a bluetooth adpater? Is there another way to use the Wiimote with PC besides using a bluetooth adpater? Like a bluetooth keyboard maybe? i dont know

I'm beginingg to wonder if MotionJoy (the software used for PS2/PS3 controllers for PC) messed something up

[jeffb8810]

YES motion joy installs a bluetooth driver of its own you have to uninstall motion joy, then go to control panel->device manager and uninstall the motion joy driver from there (should be in game controllers). then unplug the bluetooth. restart and replug. windows 7 should auto detect and auto install windows 7 bluetooth drivers. that is what i had to do to get mine to work. in order to connect wiimote to windows 7 bt you have to go to add device in control panel then click sync or 1+2 button on wiimote then follow instructions quickly or wiimote will time out.

edit: i would also uninstall your manufacturer drivers at the same time as well. windows 7 bluetooth drivers work perfectly. im using a generic $0.01 usb bt adapter from amazon. can connect 2 wiimotes and work perfectly (havent tried 4 dont have enough batteries atm lol)

edit2: if you are wondering... you cannot use motionjoy and wiimotes at same time on 1 bt adapter. i ordered another bt adapter to try and see if i can have 1 bt for motionjoy and the other for wiimotes. still waiting on shipping.

[kingb33]

(08-08-2011, 01:19 PM)jeffb8810 Wrote: YES motion joy installs a bluetooth driver of its own you have to uninstall motion joy, then go to control panel->device manager and uninstall the motion joy driver from there (should be in game controllers). then unplug the bluetooth. restart and replug. windows 7 should auto detect and auto install windows 7 bluetooth drivers. that is what i had to do to get mine to work. in order to connect wiimote to windows 7 bt you have to go to add device in control panel then click sync or 1+2 button on wiimote then follow instructions quickly or wiimote will time out.

edit: i would also uninstall your manufacturer drivers at the same time as well. windows 7 bluetooth drivers work perfectly. im using a generic $0.01 usb bt adapter from amazon. can connect 2 wiimotes and work perfectly (havent tried 4 dont have enough batteries atm lol)

edit2: if you are wondering... you cannot use motionjoy and wiimotes at same time on 1 bt adapter. i ordered another bt adapter to try and see if i can have 1 bt for motionjoy and the other for wiimotes. still waiting on shipping.

Thanks so much for the response! This was driving me nuts...

Whats really weird is that after i uninstalled the MotionJoy software from my PC everytime i plugin my BT adapter into and of my usb ports it reads it as Motion Joy Xinput device for Windows? It's like my USB ports are possessed by MotionJoy? How is that possible after i uninstalled everything? I went to their forums and other people had this problem as well but I could not find a solution yet in any of the posts. Everytime I plugin my BT adpater into a USB port it automatically reinstalls the MotionJoy drivers!


Also You said:
i would also uninstall your manufacturer drivers at the same time as well. windows 7 bluetooth drivers work perfectly.

What do you mean by that exactly? The WIDCOMM Bluetooth Software? I'm not sure if WINDOWS installed that by that default as part of the WINDOWS OS? or Rocketfish installed it....? I'm afraid to uninstall the wrong thing.

UPDATE
*****FINALLY FIGURED IT OUT FROM THIS POST:

Got my Bluetooth Dongle back working, and got rid of the motioninjoy drivers.
BTW, im using Windows 7 x64, I don't know if my methods will work on x86.

Here is what I have done:

1. I uninstalled Motioninjoy by going to Start > All Programs > MotioninJoy > Uninstall
2. then I reboot
3. On Device Manager, there's a device with Microsoft Controller Class blah blah (forgot the whole name) Right Click it > Uninstall > Check the box with Delete the driver software for this device > Hit OK
4. Remove USB Bluetooth dongle, then plug it back again.


Thank God. Do not install MotionJoy unless you really know how to uninstall it properly.

[jeffb8810]

yeah i thought i explained to also uninstall it from the device manager too. good to hear you got it uninstalled.

have you got your wiimotes working now?

WIDCOMM bluetooth stack does work with wiimotes from what i have heard, but its not as easy to setup as just using the default windows 7 bluetooth stack.