WII midi ROCKS TrY IT!

Coupe70 · Post by **Coupe70** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 12:52 pm

Angstrom wrote:
Coupe70 wrote:is there a midi-translation software for pc ?
or mac only ?
glovePIE is for PC, that's what we are using

thanks!

what kind of bluetooth adapter do i need ?
bluetooth 2.0 or is 1.1/1.2 enough ?

forge · Post by **forge** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 1:10 pm

Coupe70 wrote:
Angstrom wrote:
Coupe70 wrote:is there a midi-translation software for pc ?
or mac only ?
glovePIE is for PC, that's what we are using
thanks!

what kind of bluetooth adapter do i need ?
bluetooth 2.0 or is 1.1/1.2 enough ?

Mine is 2.0 - I didnt even realise there was a differet one until you said it

I guess you could only try

the people who've had problems connecting with their own drivers seem to use Bluesoleil

because I'd read about that I downloaded it and spent a while trying to trouble shoot why it wasnt working until I realised I actually didnt need it and just my HP drivers are fine

Coupe70 · Post by **Coupe70** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 1:16 pm

i somewhere read 2.0 is 3 times faster - don´t know if this is correct.
can anyone else tell me if 1.1/1.2 is fast enough for the wii remote ?
and what is bluesoleil ?
seems like i have no idea about bluetooth...

forge · Post by **forge** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 1:18 pm

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Coupe70 · Post by **Coupe70** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 1:27 pm

ah, ok....i thought if you have two bluetooth sources they
would just go *PING!* and communicate. so you need a
software running on the pc ?

chris vine · Post by **chris vine** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 1:27 pm

Coupe70 wrote:i somewhere read 2.0 is 3 times faster - don´t know if this is correct.
can anyone else tell me if 1.1/1.2 is fast enough for the wii remote ?
and what is bluesoleil ?
seems like i have no idea about bluetooth...

Bluesoleil is a windows application to use with a bluetooth dongle.......looking at the acer laptop in yr sig, I would imagine you already have bluetooth onboard and so you won't need bluesoleil.

Coupe70 · Post by **Coupe70** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 1:30 pm

chris vine wrote:
Coupe70 wrote:i somewhere read 2.0 is 3 times faster - don´t know if this is correct.
can anyone else tell me if 1.1/1.2 is fast enough for the wii remote ?
and what is bluesoleil ?
seems like i have no idea about bluetooth...
Bluesoleil is a windows application to use with a bluetooth dongle.......looking at the acer laptop in yr sig, I would imagine you already have bluetooth onboard and so you won't need bluesoleil.

no, it´s wlan only. but there is a hardware-switch for bluetooth,
so i guess you can get it with bluetooth onboard too.

forge · Post by **forge** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 1:31 pm

Coupe70 wrote:ah, ok....i thought if you have two bluetooth sources they
would just go *PING!* and communicate. so you need a
software running on the pc ?

it depends - if it is on board your laptop probably not, but some people did report having problems

mbenigni · Post by **mbenigni** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 1:32 pm

Everything is working great on my laptop now and happily the WiiMote has a pretty reasonable power-saving timeout etc. (I had to quit using my Bluetooth mouse because it turned itself off too frequently.)

The only thing that doesn't work is the auto-connect option in the Bluetooth setup panel. I would think that if I enable all of this, I could just press 1+2 on the WiiMote and everything would come immediately to life (instead of going through the whole connect process on-screen.) Does anyone have this working?

Also, is anyone using a passkey when they connect their remote? Any pros/cons to this?

Thanks OP! The WiiMote really is an amazing controller! I'm getting all kinds of wonderful Kaosspad-like ideas now...

forge · Post by **forge** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 1:38 pm

mbenigni wrote:Everything is working great on my laptop now and happily the WiiMote has a pretty reasonable power-saving timeout etc. (I had to quit using my Bluetooth mouse because it turned itself off too frequently.)

The only thing that doesn't work is the auto-connect option in the Bluetooth setup panel. I would think that if I enable all of this, I could just press 1+2 on the WiiMote and everything would come immediately to life (instead of going through the whole connect process on-screen.) Does anyone have this working?

Also, is anyone using a passkey when they connect their remote? Any pros/cons to this?

Thanks OP! The WiiMote really is an amazing controller! I'm getting all kinds of wonderful Kaosspad-like ideas now...

I dont see how you would use a passkey - I dont anyway

I connect manually each time, I press 1&2 and then right click on the tray BT icon and choose 'bluetooth setup wizard" then the second checkbox down

I tried another way and it wouldnt let me skip pairing, then I read a few people out there were having the same problem so I've jsut done it this way ever since - it doesnt take too long and you only have to do it once every session

forge · Post by **forge** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 1:41 pm

Coupe70 wrote:
chris vine wrote:
Coupe70 wrote:i somewhere read 2.0 is 3 times faster - don´t know if this is correct.
can anyone else tell me if 1.1/1.2 is fast enough for the wii remote ?
and what is bluesoleil ?
seems like i have no idea about bluetooth...
Bluesoleil is a windows application to use with a bluetooth dongle.......looking at the acer laptop in yr sig, I would imagine you already have bluetooth onboard and so you won't need bluesoleil.
no, it´s wlan only. but there is a hardware-switch for bluetooth,
so i guess you can get it with bluetooth onboard too.

my Blue tooth is on the same switch as Wireless - I switch it on and it does both Wireless and BT at the same time - are you sure yours doesnt? Maybe your drivers arent installed for BT

Coupe70 · Post by **Coupe70** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 1:50 pm

forge wrote:
Coupe70 wrote:
chris vine wrote: Bluesoleil is a windows application to use with a bluetooth dongle.......looking at the acer laptop in yr sig, I would imagine you already have bluetooth onboard and so you won't need bluesoleil.
no, it´s wlan only. but there is a hardware-switch for bluetooth,
so i guess you can get it with bluetooth onboard too.
my Blue tooth is on the same switch as Wireless - I switch it on and it does both Wireless and BT at the same time - are you sure yours doesnt? Maybe your drivers arent installed for BT

yes, i am sure. when i bought it i decided to take it without bluetooth.
i have two switched: one for wlan and a double switch for bluetooth and
"3G" (what´s that ?!).

forge · Post by **forge** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 2:10 pm

Coupe70 wrote: "3G" (what´s that ?!).

same as mobile phone networks use

you could use it to get internet anywhere at 3g speeds

chris vine · Post by **chris vine** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 2:17 pm

Coupe70 wrote:
forge wrote:
Coupe70 wrote: no, it´s wlan only. but there is a hardware-switch for bluetooth,
so i guess you can get it with bluetooth onboard too.
my Blue tooth is on the same switch as Wireless - I switch it on and it does both Wireless and BT at the same time - are you sure yours doesnt? Maybe your drivers arent installed for BT
yes, i am sure. when i bought it i decided to take it without bluetooth.
i have two switched: one for wlan and a double switch for bluetooth and
"3G" (what´s that ?!).

I got a bluetooth dongle (USB) on ebay for 5 uk pounds.......came with a bluesoleil disk.

chris vine · Post by **chris vine** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 2:21 pm

mbenigni wrote: Also, is anyone using a passkey when they connect their remote? Any pros/cons to this?

I believe the passkey is specific to the wii box. So just skip it.

You have to do a manual connect each time - which is OK, if a bit boring.
It would be nice of course to be able to have everything preset and just fire it up.

I do occasionally get the odd issue with BT not starting up or wiimotes not connecting and so I have to start again, ho hum, but it always works in the end.