So I take it the Dolphin Bar is highly recommended then?

[Ebbxior]

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00HZWEB74/ref=s9_simh_gw_p63_d0_i5?pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_r=0PPYWXR23P4350HWHN2T&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=455344027&pf_rd_i=468294

I kinda regret now earlier buying from a store a Bluetooth Dongle for my PC, alas. The reviews seem good, but I guess I am mainly looking for testimonials from the users of this brilliant forum and site.

[Phoked]

(12-25-2014, 04:10 AM)Ebbxior Wrote: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00HZWEB74/ref=s9_simh_gw_p63_d0_i5?pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_r=0PPYWXR23P4350HWHN2T&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=455344027&pf_rd_i=468294

I kinda regret now earlier buying from a store a Bluetooth Dongle for my PC, alas.  The reviews seem good, but I guess I am mainly looking for testimonials from the users of this brilliant forum and site.

Definitely beats a bluetooth dongle since it doubles as a sensor/receiver. The nice thing about the bar is that you can still use your bluetooth dongle without it interfering with the dolphinbar. 
It's the best solution for me as I have a media/steam/emulation pc in the living room and you can connect wiimotes at the press of any button.

[Ebbxior]

Thank you very much

[shreduhsoreus]

Absolutely. I've had mine for almost a week and I regret not getting one way sooner. It does have some quirks though.


From what I hear, it can be picky when it comes to 3rd party "unofficial" controllers. I have 3 official Wiimotes and 1 official Wiimote with motion plus built in. Haven't had any problems connecting any combination of them so far. Another thing I love about it is that once you sync a Wiimote, it automatically connects each time you turn the Wiimote on, from what I hear other Bluetooth adapters require you to resync each time.

So, yea. Worth every penny. Buy one

[herberckle]

Do you know if the dolphin bar supports wii balance board as well? i bought the dolphin bar and it works great with my wii motion plus controller, im just wondering if it works with the balance board as well, i would buy a used one if it does!

[MayImilae]

So far no one has tried it with the balance board. So, honestly, no one knows. *shrug*

[Kirtai]

Strangely, I was just testing this and can confirm that an RVL-021 balance board does work with a DolphinBar with Dolphin 4.0-5078 in Family Ski & Snowboard. (That's the board that comes with the WiiU Fit package)

I used the setting "Real Balance Board" under controllers->Balance Board.

[Thotaz]

It is pretty good while you use it, the problem is that I can't keep it connected to my PC at all times for two reasons:

1: The blinking light when it searches for a wii remote is distracting, and I can't turn it off so it only searches while dolphin is open.

2: If I turn on my PC while dolphinbar is connected to it then the computer will hang until I connect my wii remote to the dolphin bar by pressing a button. I think this is because dolphinbar tells the computer that there is a controller connected even when there isn't, so when the computer tries to communicate with the controller, it will try for a while before timing out.

The second issue is definitely the biggest one and if I had known about it then I probably would have just gotten another bluetooth module and make my own sensor bar or something. For now I just have to disconnect it whenever I'm not using it.

[MayImilae]

If you are really that bothered by the lights, Dolphinbars are very easy to open. You could apply some stickers to the LEDs to make them dimmer.

[iMave.23]

I agree concerning the blinking lights. But I found another solution, that I'm using for my PC in the living room:

There is a Microsoft Utility called "devcon.exe" that can be used to turn on/off devices and many things more.

It is part part of the WDK (=Windows Driver Kit) which can be downloaded free from Microsoft.

With this Utility you can turn any device on/off via command line.

Turn on device:

devcon.exe enable "USB\VID_057E&PID_0306"
devcon.exe restart "USB\VID_057E&PID_0306"

Turn off device:

devcon.exe disable "USB\VID_057E&PID_0306"
devcon.exe restart "USB\VID_057E&PID_0306"

I wrote separate batch files to do this. When booting, I have the batch file for "OFF" in the autostart. Then I have a batch file for starting Dolphin, that turns on the DolphinBar, starts Dolpin and turns the DolphinBar off after Dolphin is ended.

As soon a the utility turns the DolphinBar off, the lights go out.  

To find it, just Google for "Devcon.exe"