Whatt's it all about?

[sorenoneill]

What does this actually do? Does it stream wii data as serial data or ...?

...the README doesn't make me any wiser...

[jy14898]

I wrote this repo while at university to bridge Wiimote data from a Linux machine to a Windows machine, into the Unity game engine. This is because at the time, connecting Wiimotes to Windows via a standard Bluetooth adapter was troublesome, whereas on Linux it worked perfectly (via xwiimote).

The data is sent via a mix of websocket and UDP. UDP is used for the motion data, whereas websocket is used for the connection/disconnection of wiimotes and probably other things.

The data format is an adhoc binary format, encoded here: https://github.com/jy14898/xwiimote-server/blob/073bd6ce8d0a0a55dd36248b4caa4d6200f6f208/serverutils.py and decoded here: https://github.com/jy14898/xwiimote-server/blob/073bd6ce8d0a0a55dd36248b4caa4d6200f6f208/xwiimote-client/Assets/XWiimoteClient.cs

In the end, we did not use this solution as it was simpler in the end to purchase the 'mayflash wii remote sensor bar', which provides better drivers than a standard bluetooth adapter, and has the benefit of integrating the IR lights too.

[sorenoneill]

Thanks for replying -- I'm on Linux and simply having issues with the python bindings, so your project is probably not going to help me :-)

Thanks for sharing though.