Using wiimote on your pc.

[Infinite]

Well, recently i had regretted (and i knew this would happen) getting Guitar Hero 3 for the wii (not gh:wt tho, that game pwnz on the wii), seeing as how you can have custom songs on the wii, including songs such as, Scars of Yesterday by Dragonforce and A7x songs.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCxoPfZvcms
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FQ6uDQHlBg

I was talking about it with one of my friends and he said "well, you can use a bluetooth usb adapter and hook up your wiimote to the PC if you want to that badly". so i looked it up and found these:

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http://www.wiiprojects.org/bluetooth.html
http://www.mundayweb.com/progs/gh3-wii.php
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IqGtdLyKYA

I found it very interesting and you can actually do almost anything with the wii mote that you could do normally with a mouse or keyboard (if you can program it xD). The program used to "code" the commands for the wiimote is called GlovePIE (http://carl.kenner.googlepages.com/glovepie). Here's an example of the script which i am using for gh3 with my guitar.

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/*
 * Based on version from http://wizardswhinings.blogspot.com/2008/03/how-to-use-wii-guitar-hero-iii-guitar.html
 *
 * Modified by Neil Munday, July 2008
 */
          
Key.Ctrl = False
Key.LeftShift = False
Key.LeftAlt = False
Key.RightAlt = False

debug = 'whammy=' + wiimote.Guitar.WhammyBar + ', pitch=' + RemoveUnits(Wiimote.Pitch)

//change these to your liking (use debug info)
var.whammythreshold = 0.55
var.starpowerangle = 50

Keyboard.LeftShift = Wiimote.Guitar.Fret1
Keyboard.Z = Wiimote.Guitar.Fret2
Keyboard.X = Wiimote.Guitar.Fret3
Keyboard.C = Wiimote.Guitar.Fret4
Keyboard.V = Wiimote.Guitar.Fret5
//make the 4 wiimote leds light up with the first 4 frets
Wiimote.Led1 = Wiimote.Guitar.Fret1
Wiimote.Led2 = Wiimote.Guitar.Fret2
Wiimote.Led3 = Wiimote.Guitar.Fret3
Wiimote.Led4 = Wiimote.Guitar.Fret4
//other mappings
Keyboard.Space = Wiimote.Guitar.Minus
Keyboard.RightShift = Wiimote.Guitar.StrumUp
Keyboard.Slash = Wiimote.Guitar.StrumDown
Keyboard.Backspace = Wiimote.Guitar.Plus

//make whammy when whammy is pushed
If Wiimote.Guitar.WhammyBar > var.whammythreshold
   Mouse.x = Wiimote.Guitar.WhammyBar
EndIf
//push star power button when guitar is tilted
/*If RemoveUnits(Wiimote.Pitch) > var.starpowerangle
 * Key.Space = True
 * Wiimote.Rumble = False
 * Wait 1000 ms
 * Key.Space = False
 * Wiimote.Rumble = False
 *EndIf
 */

(I disabled the last bit because i hate activating Starpower by accident by tilting my guitar (i use select/- to activate it) and i found it neat that you can assign the LED lights on the wii to certain buttons in this bit

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Wiimote.Led1 = Wiimote.Guitar.Fret1
Wiimote.Led2 = Wiimote.Guitar.Fret2
Wiimote.Led3 = Wiimote.Guitar.Fret3
Wiimote.Led4 = Wiimote.Guitar.Fret4

)

Atm i can't test this out because i don't have a bluetooth usb adapter, but i ordered one from Amazon about an hour ago and it should be here in 2-3 days (because amazon is a beast at shipping), so i'll update this thread when i get it and test it out =P.

[Nightmare]

There was a post about this a while back.

Johnny Lee is another guy on Youtube who has been doing some pretty interesting things with the wii motes.
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=jcl5m&view=videos

[Infinite]

There was a post about this a while back.

Johnny Lee is another guy on Youtube who has been doing some pretty interesting things with the wii motes.
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=jcl5m&view=videos

Must've missed it/never seen it in the year that i've been here :<

EDIT: just saw that head tracking video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd3-eiid ... annel_page) and wow, that's just out of this world x.x.

[[SoE]_Zaitsev]

Yeh that guy is awesome. Was impressed when I saw a few of his movies.

[JDogg]

Head tracking is pretty cool, thanks for sharing your code, I'm sure it will help someone.

[Infinite]

Well, i didn't really make it, i did modify a few things in it tho =x.

[JDogg]

Well, i didn't really make it, i did modify a few things in it tho =x.

Ohh ok then. Is there a site with other scripts like these?.

[Infinite]

There are probably other sites with scripts like this one, but it's probably easier to make your own.

I finally got my bluetooth usb adapter and I'm VERY impressed. I only had one problem hooking it up, and it was very minor (i had the wrong version of GlovePie.) And it took me about 5 minutes to hook up, but i'm VERY impressed. the programs worked perfectly and i got it to work like a charm. there is barely any lag from the wiimote to the adapter, and i actually played some gh3 songs on my PC on expert and it worked great. I wonder what else i can do with this, i've already saved atleast $30 by buying this usb adapter xD. (it cost me $6, but i got it through shipping so it was really about $3).\

EDIT: just wrote a cool script for my wiimote xD

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Wiimote.Led1 = True
Wait 50 ms
Wiimote.Led1 = False
Wiimote.Led2 = True
Wait 50 ms
Wiimote.Led2 = False
Wiimote.Led3 = True
Wait 50 ms
Wiimote.Led3 = False
Wiimote.Led4 = True
Wait 50 ms
Wiimote.Led4 = False

As you can probably tell, it baically turns the lights on an off, gonna change it to 1000 ms probably, since it'll waste my batteries tho =x.

2nd EDIT: starting to make a scrip which lets you use use the wiimote as a mouse basically, a wireless one which doesn't need a pad to rest on xD. It's basically a bunch of if statements, but it works great. The up, down, left, and right arrows are used to move the mouse, A is used for mouse1 or left click, B is used for right click or Mouse2, and + is used to hold down mouse1

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if Wiimote.up = 1
 Mouse.y -= 0.005
EndIf
If Wiimote.down = 1
Mouse.y += 0.005
EndIf
If Wiimote.right = 1
Mouse.x += 0.005
EndIf
If Wiimote.left = 1
Mouse.x -= 0.005
EndIf
If Wiimote.a = 1
Mouse.LeftButton = 1
Wait 50 ms
Mouse.LeftButton = 0
EndIf
If Wiimote.b = 1
Mouse.RightButton = 1
Mouse.RightButton = 0
EndIf
If Wiimote.Plus = 1
Mouse.LeftButton = 1
EndIf

3rd EDIT: (lols) made another script which turns my wiimote into a remote control for my winamp player :> (i have a keyboard with the keys at the top of it which can go forward, backward, pause/play, and stop and those work with winamp so i used some of them)

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var.wait = 200
If Wiimote.up = 1
Keyboard.playpause = 1
Keyboard.playpause = 0
Wait 300 ms
EndIf
If Wiimote.right = 1
Keyboard.nextTrack = 1
Keyboard.nextTrack = 0
Wait 300 ms
Endif
If Wiimote.left = 1
Keyboard.prevTrack = 1
Keyboard.prevTrack = 0
Wait 300 ms
Endif
If Wiimote.down = 1
Keyboard.stop = 1
Keyboard.stop = 0
Wait 300 ms
Endif
If Wiimote.plus = 1
Keyboard.leftcontrol = 1
Keyboard.leftAlt = 1
Keyboard.Up = 1
Keyboard.leftcontrol = 0
Keyboard.leftAlt = 0
Keyboard.Up = 0
Endif
If Wiimote.minus = 1
Keyboard.leftcontrol = 1
Keyboard.leftAlt = 1
Keyboard.Down = 1
Keyboard.leftcontrol = 0
Keyboard.leftAlt = 0
Keyboard.Down = 0
Endif
If Wiimote.home = 1
Keyboard.mute = 1
Keyboard.mute = 0
wait 300ms
Endif
If Wiimote.one = 1
Keyboard.Volumeup = 1
Keyboard.Volumeup = 0
wait 200ms
EndIf
If Wiimote.two = 1
Keyboard.Volumedown = 1
Keyboard.Volumedown = 0
wait 200ms
EndIf
If Wiimote.A = 1
Wiimote.Led1 = True
Wait var.wait ms
Wiimote.Led2 = True
Wait var.wait ms
Wiimote.Led3 = True
Wait var.wait ms
Wiimote.Led4 = True
Endif
If Wiimote.B = 1
Wiimote.Led4 = False
Wait var.wait ms
Wiimote.Led3 = False
Wait var.wait ms
Wiimote.Led2 = False
Wait var.wait ms
Wiimote.Led1 = False
Endif
If Wiimote.Pitch > 60
Wiimote.rumble = True
Else
Wiimote.rumble = False
Endif