Hi Florian On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 10:50 PM, Florian Echtler <floe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. Awesome. Automatic reconnect was a horrible mess to get working under Linux but great to hear it works for others, too. > 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. "backported"? Why would you backport the hid-wiimote driver? Or do you mean "forwardport"? Anyway, the hid-wiimote driver does not have support for the wii-balance board as I do not have access to them. However, if you are willing to test it, I will send some patches which will implement it. > 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. Yes, cwiid includes support for it but it is horribly written and a 3rd party application which doesn't utilize the kernel HID or bluez infrastructure. > So, my two questions are: > > - Is anybody currently working on integrating the balance board into > hid-wiimote? I am maintaining the hid-wiimote driver, but I am not particularly working on balance-board support, yet. I am willing to do that, though ;) > - Is there a way to retrieve the existing automatic connection from > bluetoothd and pass it to a second userspace process (i.e., cwiid)? No. No way. This is why I have written hid-wiimote. > > [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bluez/+bug/1049266 Ouh, I see. I will send a patch fixing this to the BlueZ mailing list. I will put you on CC if you don't mind. Thanks for the report! David -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-bluetooth" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
