With all that in mind, I was wondering if anyone had similar experiences. Is
this perhaps because iMacs may have stronger Bluetooth antennae than MBPs?

Ivica Ico Bukvic, D.M.A.
Composition, Music Technology, CCTAD, CHCI, CS and Art (by courtesy)
Director, DISIS Interactive Sound & Intermedia Studio
Virginia Tech
Dept. of Music – 0240
Blacksburg, VA 24061
(540) 231-6139
(540) 231-5034 (fax)
ico@vt.edu

http://www.music.vt.edu/faculty/bukvic/

I don’t use the Wii myself, but in my ensemble 2 of the players do
use them – one is even using 2 of them – and we never had this kind
of problems

the computers are all macs, mostly intel, but there are some PPC (the
wii are synchronised to intel macs, running X.4.10 i belive)
we once had a problem with the bluetooth on one of them, a macbook
(non-pro) but it seems a b-tooth problem of some of those (thanks
apple!) – it was easily solved with a b-tooth usb key.

hope it helps (but i suspect it just adds to the mystery)

best

kasper
–
Kasper T. Toeplitz
noise, composition, bass, computer

http://www.sleazeArt.com

http://www.myspace.com/sleazeart

Best,

Zip

Op 20-apr-2008, om 16:34 heeft Ivica Ico Bukvic het volgende geschreven:

> Last night we had a show where one of the numbers used Wiimote as a
> controller. What I discovered is that apparently Wiimote’s Bluetooth
> connectivity with computer (in this case we tested it with 1st and
> 2nd gen
> Intel MBPs) is lost as soon as there are other competing Bluetooth
> signal in
> the vicinity (we are not even sure if this is the core reason–it
> appears to
> have been the only logical parallel we could draw between the observed
> symptoms and environmental variables we could easily quantify
> during the
> limited time we had for troubleshooting). We literally had to ask
> audience
> to shut off their cell phones completely to attain a reasonable
> level of
> reliability. On the other hand, I had no problems with this in the
> lab where
> we used an iMac (first gen Intel) and yet where we have tons of
> tightly
> packed equipment that could’ve very well caused similar
> connectivity issues,
> and yet has not done so.
>
> With all that in mind, I was wondering if anyone had similar
> experiences. Is
> this perhaps because iMacs may have stronger Bluetooth antennae
> than MBPs?
>
> Ivica Ico Bukvic, D.M.A.
> Composition, Music Technology, CCTAD, CHCI, CS and Art (by courtesy)
> Director, DISIS Interactive Sound & Intermedia Studio
> Virginia Tech
> Dept. of Music – 0240
> Blacksburg, VA 24061
> (540) 231-6139
> (540) 231-5034 (fax)
> ico@vt.edu
> http://www.music.vt.edu/faculty/bukvic/
>
>

So, if I understand correctly all of the solutions currently available seem
to be unstable in terms of maintaining connectivity?

Many thanks for the feedback!

Best wishes,

Ivica Ico Bukvic, D.M.A.
Composition, Music Technology, CCTAD, CHCI, CS and Art (by courtesy)
Director, DISIS Interactive Sound & Intermedia Studio
Virginia Tech
Dept. of Music – 0240
Blacksburg, VA 24061
(540) 231-6139
(540) 231-5034 (fax)
ico@vt.edu

http://www.music.vt.edu/faculty/bukvic/

> —–Original Message—–
> From: maxmsp-bounces@cycling74.com [mailto:maxmsp-bounces@cycling74.com]
> On Behalf Of Zip Boterbloem
> Sent: Sunday, April 20, 2008 1:37 PM
> Subject: Re: [maxmsp] wiimote connection stability
>
> What did you use for your Wiimote connection? I’ve tested the aka
> stuff, junxion and osculator. None of them is totally reliable, but
> osculator connections are the most stable.
>
> Best,
>
> Zip
>
> Op 20-apr-2008, om 16:34 heeft Ivica Ico Bukvic het volgende geschreven:
>
> > Last night we had a show where one of the numbers used Wiimote as a
> > controller. What I discovered is that apparently Wiimote’s Bluetooth
> > connectivity with computer (in this case we tested it with 1st and
> > 2nd gen
> > Intel MBPs) is lost as soon as there are other competing Bluetooth
> > signal in
> > the vicinity (we are not even sure if this is the core reason–it
> > appears to
> > have been the only logical parallel we could draw between the observed
> > symptoms and environmental variables we could easily quantify
> > during the
> > limited time we had for troubleshooting). We literally had to ask
> > audience
> > to shut off their cell phones completely to attain a reasonable
> > level of
> > reliability. On the other hand, I had no problems with this in the
> > lab where
> > we used an iMac (first gen Intel) and yet where we have tons of
> > tightly
> > packed equipment that could’ve very well caused similar
> > connectivity issues,
> > and yet has not done so.
> >
> > With all that in mind, I was wondering if anyone had similar
> > experiences. Is
> > this perhaps because iMacs may have stronger Bluetooth antennae
> > than MBPs?
> >
> > Ivica Ico Bukvic, D.M.A.
> > Composition, Music Technology, CCTAD, CHCI, CS and Art (by courtesy)
> > Director, DISIS Interactive Sound & Intermedia Studio
> > Virginia Tech
> > Dept. of Music – 0240
> > Blacksburg, VA 24061
> > (540) 231-6139
> > (540) 231-5034 (fax)
> > ico@vt.edu
> > http://www.music.vt.edu/faculty/bukvic/
> >
> >
>

Kevin