Hello everyone,
I'm having some issues getting the Wii Balance Board to work with a
recent Linux Bluetooth stack (Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel 3.2, bluez-4.101).
After some minor patching [1], I've successfully paired the board with
my machine. Automatic reconnect (when hitting the large front button) is
also working.
However, the hid-wiimote driver, even the one I "backported" from kernel
3.5, apparently doesn't really support the balance board so far. I do
get 5 new device nodes as /dev/input/event*, but none of them actually
report any data from the weight sensors.
Alternatively, I've tried the cwiid userspace library. This does work,
however, I have to un-pair the board from bluetoothd first and put it
into discoverable mode using the button on the bottom side, which is
pretty inconvenient. If I keep the pairing active, the board will
reconnect to bluetoothd itself and cwiid can't open a second L2CAP
connection, AFAICT.
So, my two questions are:
- Is anybody currently working on integrating the balance board into
hid-wiimote?
- Is there a way to retrieve the existing automatic connection from
bluetoothd and pass it to a second userspace process (i.e., cwiid)?
Thanks!
Florian
[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bluez/+bug/1049266
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