Gamer discovery: Wiimote to PC pairing

Posted Nov 22, 2006 at 11:11PM by QJ Staff Listed in: Wii Tags: Bluetooth, Wiimote

What happens when you have some free time, a PC, a Nintendo Wii, and some ideas about how bluetooth works? Simple: you figure out how to make your PC acknowledge your Wiimote.

Brian sent us an email on some experimentation he did with his PC and the Wiimote. Apparently, he was able to figure out a way to pair the two. While we're not sure what else he used to get the two to work together, it's definitely an interesting development. While it doesn't have any practical applications as of yet, maybe someone can think of something you can do with a connection like this, such as controlling the PC's mouse with your Wiimote.

Of course, you're free to test this out. While he didn't give us a step-by-step guide on how to do it, he did give us a basic idea on what you should be looking for.

Here are his instructions:

Method of connecting is press A + B + 1 + 2.

Four LEDs blink, it is discoverable during this time. Once paired, the same button combo turns it on and you can connect it as an active connection. The LEDs blink as long as its connected, shows up as a HID game controller, but with no buttons or axis' in the control panel.

Got any verification on this? Send it in as a tip or place a comment below. If you've got pictures, that'll be great as well. Let's see just how far we can take Brian's observation, shall we?

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Comments

# Awsome! — Spartan1T804 2006-11-22 19:34

Wow It would be awsome to use my Wiimote instead of my mouse. This would be hella kool!!!one

Good lookin' out!

# Tried it out — Guest 2006-11-22 20:42

Confirmed and I can pair with it, but it just shows up as a generic HID device and needs drivers to do anything useful.

# I like — badam 2006-11-22 20:47

I like this discovery

# ***** dude — Guest 2006-11-23 02:10

that would be totally radical

# Bluetooth — Guest 2006-11-23 03:02

Well sounds interesting. Maybe the Wii uses Bluetooth 2.0 to send into the controller the sound data used for games, and buttons signals too! I wonder if someday Nintendo will release drivers for that.. Or maybe some great developer will make that reality :)

# mac — Guest 2006-11-23 04:42

I tried to pair it with my mac, it finds it, but it then wants me to put in a passkey on the device, so it won't let me go any further

# Useability will be limited. — Guest 2006-11-23 04:55

If this works, it will only work with the axis of the wiimote. It will not work as a mouse pointer without the sensor bar.

# nevermind — Guest 2006-11-23 04:57

I got around the passkey, it just needs drivers

# Try 1+2 by itself — Guest 2006-11-23 07:29

If you read the Wii manual, it says that to connect a second wiimote to your wii, you need to hold down the 1 and 2 buttons at the same time. That is all you need to do to get a Wii to pair with a new Wii-mote.

So perhaps you don't need the A and B buttons, just 1 and 2?

The protocol sounds like the P5 Glove. A generic HID device that doesn't expose any of the standard buttons. That is actually a good thing, since HID is reasonably easy to reverse engineer.

# sweeeet — Guest 2006-11-23 12:56

im gonna buy a wiimote and pair it with my ps3 through linux and have the best of both worlds.

# . — KirbySS 2006-11-23 18:40

Neat idea, good luck with that one.

# Wii Mote Drivers Under Development — Guest 2006-11-26 14:51

Several developers have teamed up on a quest to create a bluetooth driver for the Wii-Mote.

They are developing in linux, but all of the same coding concepts can also be applied to a Windows and Mac OSX version of the wii-mote driver as well.

For up to date information on how development is progressing you can visit this website:

http://wiihacks.blogspot.com/2006/11/wii-mote-hacks.html

# What About?... — Guest 2006-11-27 22:57

Hey, if the controller is Bluetooth... then the Console is too, and would have a sync button... Therefore is it possible to connect the both of those? you then may be able to gain access to internal flash memory and find out what the Retro Console files are... and see if rom dumps can be converted into them? huh? what if? huh, huh, huh?

# led — Guest 2006-12-04 14:03

The sensor bar is only leds, so the wiimote just needs to transmit this data to the pc.

# You can always try the candle trick... — Guest 2006-12-05 01:44

for the sensor bar replacement.

# pincode — Guest 2006-12-18 14:06

I found the device also but like Jack when i tried to connect it needed a PIN code and i have no idea what to put

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