Connect Wiimote to Max 2023
Hi everyone,
I am trying to connect my Wiimote to my Max8 on my Mac M1. I have tried Osculator and aka.wiiremote but no luck, from what I can gather, I think my operating system and Max8 do not support those options.
Is there an object or external you would suggest or any workaround for this?
Thank you!
apple bluetooth - wiimote - not possible
https://osculator.net/forum/forum/support/wiimote/11770-connecting-wiimote-controller-on-m1-mac-with-osx-12-monterey
Hello Namfon Natcha,
I can confirm what Source Audio is writing. Since many years I used the Wiimote as a central interface for my pieces. Over the years Apple made constantly changes to their bluetooth stack and I had to adapted the program I wrote to interface with the Wiimote every few years to keep it working. Finally it's not possible at all anymore :(
To be able to continue to play the older pieces, I decided to create a little standalone box, using a Raspberry Pi and re-wrote the connecting script in python. A Raspberry Pico serves as a USB-Midi device to send the data to the computer. And even there I had to go back to an old python version (2.7) as I found the forks of the python package for the wii that ported it to moderen python 3.x not working reliably.... :(
TLDR: Source Audio is right - Wiimote can't connect o to macOS Monterrey and later and community projects for other solutions are not very active anymore.
I would add that another option could be 6$
ESP32 arduino that links between wiimote and computer.
few libs :
https://github.com/hrgraf/ESP32Wiimote
https://github.com/bigw00d/Arduino-ESP32Wiimote
@SOURCE AUDIO: I wasn't aware of that option! Thanks for pointing that out! Especially as RasPis are still hard to get (well the zero and the RasPi three situation seems to improve lately)
Thank you very much, Source Audio and Jan. this information is very helpful! I will try looking into Arduino.