more than 1 year ago (June 21, 2010) Clara asks about the possibility to incorporate into the Matt’s code the MAC address of the used wii in order to avoid pressing the red button every time you start the program.

It should be possible because the connection with the original Wii works exactly in this manner. The first time you should “connect” the Balance Board to the Wii with the red button in the battery compartement, then you only have to press the button in the front of the Balance Board to have the connection (the Wii memorize the MAC address).

Someone has this feature already implemented? If yes, it’s possible to have the code?

Many thanks in advance,

Stefano

I find the solution to install the software and use it the wii balance board for the Ubuntu 10.04 LTS; I report the working commands:

1# To install all you need type this command:
sudo apt-get install autoconf autogen automake gcc bluetooth libbluetooth3-dev libgtk2.0-dev pkg-config python2.6-dev flex bison git-core libbluetooth-dev python-pygame python-tk

2# Make the directory to hold the wiibalance software:
mkdir ~/wiibalance
cd ~/wiibalance

3# Retrieve the Cwiid library:
git clone http://github.com/abstrakraft/cwiid.git

4# Enter into the cwiid directory and compile it:
cd cwiid
aclocal
autoconf
./configure
make
sudo make install

5# At this point you can test if the Wii Remote works with the GUI with the command:
wmgui

6# If all is fine you can install the phyton bindings:
cd python
sudo python setup.py install

7# And then install the Wii balance board software:
git clone git://github.com/videntity/python-omhe.git
cd python-omhe
sudo python setup.py install

8# Now you can check if the Wii Balance Board works with the system:
cd python-omhe/omhe/hardware/wiibalance
python ./wiibal-weighdemo.py

9# If all works fine, you can now copy the “scales” application files “scalesgui.py and system.ini” from the page “http://abstrakraft.org/cwiid/ticket/63″, change the permission and run it:
chmod a+x scalesgui.py
./scalesgui.py

Enjoy it!

Note: to exit the program you should press the “F12″ key.

could someone (Matt or someone that knows how to do it) please post exactly how can I set up my system (Ubuntu 10.04 LTS) to use the Wii Balance Board? Some libraries and/or repositories are no longer available (e.g. libbluetooth2-dev, http://abstrakraft.org/cwiid/svn/) and it is actually impossible for me to install the software (I can already talk to the Wiimote). I think that a lot of people use the Ubuntu LTS distribution, so it will be a great help to all!

Thank you in advance for your kind help, Stefano

Thhx

How I can measuring the center of pressure (axis x and y) with Wii Balance Board? Is it Linux show only weight or also show the percentage of the body weight discharge?

When i try to install it on Ubuntu 10.04 and run he first command

sudo apt-get install autoconf autogen automake gcc bluetooth libbluetooth2-dev libgtk2.0-dev pkg-config python2.5-dev flex bison subversion

it throws me this error

E: Couldn’t find package libbluetooth2-dev

Any help ?

this is from the dry run. is this because of the change from python2.5 to 2.6?