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Waffle's Quick Guide to Setting Up a PCmote

You will of course need a Wii Remote



You will also need a Bluetooth enabled PC. You can either purchase a USB device enabling Bluetooth functionality, or you can purchase a computer with Bluetooth hardware installed. This guide (unlike most others) will assume the latter.



Either plug in your device, or find your Bluetooth options in the Control Panel



You will need to enable Bluetooth, if it is not already:

← Bluetooth is on, but Disabled









← Click to enable Bluetooth





← Bluetooth is on and Enabled.

Your Wii Remote will show up as some form of generic device, usually a Human Interface Device, or your computer may ask which kind of device it is. If asked, select HID.



Press Connect, press 1 and 2 on your Wiimote, then press OK on your PC to connect the devices. The icon will change to show that the controller and PC are connected, but the lights on the Remote will continue to flash.



After extracting and opening GlovePIE, you can create a script if you know how, you can open one that you've downloaded or created, or you can use the GUI tab to easily create one and save it for later use.



In a nutshell, the left panel displays all keyboard and computer functions your machine can perform. These include keypresses and mouse functions. The right panel tells GlovePIE which part of your device (in this case, the Wiimote) will activate the key or computer function you have chosen. View this simple script to make things clearer:



In this example, I set the keys shown to the buttons specified on the Wiimote, and set the Wiimote to indicate Player #1. Basically, the format is Key.key = Wiimote#.button, where key is the keyboard key you want to mimic, # refers to the player number you want to set, and button refers to the Wii Remote button you want to use to mimic said key.

     Setting other Wiimote functions to work with GlovePIE take a little more commitment, and are a topic for a later time.

When all is finished, press Start in GlovePIE to enable the connection between your PC and Wiimote:


...and your final result should be a fully-functional keyboard emulator.


-Happy New Year!
 
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