aka.wiiremote - Connect without pressing connect?

Hi Andy,
You might have another problem here, too. 100 meters is well beyond
the bluetooth limit, which in theory is 10 meters. It may work fine
if there are no obstacles, walls, the moon is in the right phase,
it's Tuesday, but 100 meters is really pushing it. Have you done a
test for this? Just wanted to raise the warning flag just in case.

As far as your patch is concerned, you could have the patch send
repeated bangs to the connect message (to the aka.wiimote object)
until a "connected" message comes out the status outlet. I don't have
a wiimote with me at the moment, so can't test for sure (nor am
positive what message comes out the status outlet when a connection
is made).

Best,
David

On Jul 26, 2007, at 5:16 AM, Andy Brennan wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> Has anybody attempted to make a patch that deoes not require the
> connect button to be pressed in order to connect a wii remote?
>
> I'm currently making a patch where the user will be stood approx
> 100 meters away from the controlling computer and so it is not
> practical to need mouse control to press connect (the laucnh of the
> application is done manualy by an operator - who will have no
> contact with the user).
>
> I have already tried analysing the connect state and sending a
> connect message to aka.wiiremote if it is not connected but it
> seems to cause crashes.
>
> Essentially what I am after is for the synchronisedrmote to be
> connected upon launch as is the case with an actual nintendo wii
> console.
>
> Has anybody done this?
>
> Cheers
>
> Andy