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Can't connect Wii Guitar Controller
Do you want to request a feature or report a bug?
Bug
What did you do?
Connected a wii mote to Ubuntu 20.04 using the standard procedure of installing xwiimote, loading the hid-wiimote kernel module, and connecting via the bluetooth settings page (bluez backend). I then connected the wiimote to the guitar controller. Running sdl-jstest shows the following controller output:
Found 6 joystick(s)
Joystick Name: 'RedOctane Guitar Hero X-plorer'
Joystick GUID: 03000000301400004847000022310000
Joystick Number: 0
Number of Axes: 6
Number of Buttons: 11
Number of Hats: 1
Number of Balls: 0
GameControllerConfig:
missing (see 'gamecontrollerdb.txt' or SDL_GAMECONTROLLERCONFIG)
Joystick Name: 'Nintendo Wii Remote'
Joystick GUID: 050000007e0500000603000000860000
Joystick Number: 1
Number of Axes: 0
Number of Buttons: 11
Number of Hats: 0
Number of Balls: 0
GameControllerConfig:
missing (see 'gamecontrollerdb.txt' or SDL_GAMECONTROLLERCONFIG)
Joystick Name: 'Nintendo Wii Remote Accelerometer'
Joystick GUID: 050000007e0500000603000000860000
Joystick Number: 2
Number of Axes: 3
Number of Buttons: 0
Number of Hats: 0
Number of Balls: 0
GameControllerConfig:
missing (see 'gamecontrollerdb.txt' or SDL_GAMECONTROLLERCONFIG)
Joystick Name: 'Nintendo Wii Remote IR'
Joystick GUID: 050000007e0500000603000000860000
Joystick Number: 3
Number of Axes: 0
Number of Buttons: 0
Number of Hats: 4
Number of Balls: 0
GameControllerConfig:
missing (see 'gamecontrollerdb.txt' or SDL_GAMECONTROLLERCONFIG)
Joystick Name: 'Nintendo Wii Remote Guitar'
Joystick GUID: 050000007e0500000603000000860000
Joystick Number: 4
Number of Axes: 2
Number of Buttons: 9
Number of Hats: 2
Number of Balls: 0
GameControllerConfig:
missing (see 'gamecontrollerdb.txt' or SDL_GAMECONTROLLERCONFIG)
Joystick Name: 'Nintendo Wii Remote Motion Plus'
Joystick GUID: 050000007e0500000603000000860000
Joystick Number: 5
Number of Axes: 3
Number of Buttons: 0
Number of Hats: 0
Number of Balls: 0
GameControllerConfig:
missing (see 'gamecontrollerdb.txt' or SDL_GAMECONTROLLERCONFIG)
What did you expect to see?
Upon launch, the X-plorer is recognized perfectly; I was expecting the same for the wiimote guitar :-)
What did you see instead?
Note: I obtained the following logs by running performous -log controllers
I noticed a few things.
First, when the game launches, I see in the logs that the controller is being seen by performous, but errors are thrown for some of the Wii controllers, but not Joystick 4 like I was expecting:
controller-joystick/info: Opened joystick 0: RedOctane Guitar Hero X-plorer (11 buttons, 6 axes, 1 hats, 0 balls)
controller-joystick/info: Opened joystick 1: Nintendo Wii Remote (11 buttons, 0 axes, 0 hats, 0 balls)
controller-joystick/info: Opened joystick 2: Nintendo Wii Remote Accelerometer (0 buttons, 3 axes, 0 hats, 0 balls)
controller-joystick/info: Opened joystick 3: Nintendo Wii Remote IR (0 buttons, 0 axes, 4 hats, 0 balls)
controller-joystick/info: Opened joystick 4: Nintendo Wii Remote Guitar (9 buttons, 2 axes, 2 hats, 0 balls)
controller-joystick/info: Opened joystick 5: Nintendo Wii Remote Motion Plus (0 buttons, 3 axes, 0 hats, 0 balls)
controller-midi/info: Opened MIDI device 1: Midi Through Port-0
controllers/warning: "Nintendo Wii Remote Accelerometer (joystick 2)" not found from controllers.xml. Please report a bug if this is a game controller.
controllers/warning: "Nintendo Wii Remote Motion Plus (joystick 5)" not found from controllers.xml. Please report a bug if this is a game controller.
I suspected that perhaps the controller was lacking a mapping, so I added the following to /usr/share/games/performous/config/controllers.xml:
<controller type="guitar" name="GUITAR_WII">
<description>Wii Remote Guitar</description>
<device regex="Remote Guitar" />
<mapping>
<button hw="0" map="godmode" />
<button hw="1" map="godmode" />
<button hw="2" map="pick_up" />
<button hw="3" map="pick_down" />
<button hw="4" map="green" />
<button hw="5" map="red" />
<button hw="6" map="yellow" />
<button hw="7" map="blue" />
<button hw="8" map="orange" />
<axis hw="3" negative="whammy" />
</mapping>
</controller>
That configuration made no difference, so I wanted to see what would happen if the configuration for all controllers was completely removed, which resulted in the following logs:
controllers/warning: "Nintendo Wii Remote Accelerometer (joystick 2)" not found from controllers.xml. Please report a bug if this is a game controller.
controllers/warning: "Nintendo Wii Remote Motion Plus (joystick 5)" not found from controllers.xml. Please report a bug if this is a game controller.
controllers/warning: "RedOctane Guitar Hero X-plorer (joystick 0)" not found from controllers.xml. Please report a bug if this is a game controller.
I figured that somehow the controllers are being masked, so I took a look at games/controllers-joysticks.cc to see if I was able to figure anything out. I ended up adding the following above line 40:
else if (sdlEv.type == SDL_JOYDEVICEADDED) {
event.source = SourceId(SOURCETYPE_JOYSTICK, sdlEv.jbutton.which); // All j* structures have .which at the same position as jbutton
return true;
}
Adding the controller mappings back and rebuilding performous with that change resulted in the controllers being detected as joysticks and having them mapped correctly but were unresponsive:
controllers/info: Assigned (joystick 0) as GUITAR_GUITARHERO_XPLORER
controllers/debug: processing (joystick 0) GUITAR GREEN (NAV_SOME) value=0
controllers/warning: "Nintendo Wii Remote (joystick 1)" not found from controllers.xml. Please report a bug if this is a game controller.
controllers/warning: "Nintendo Wii Remote Accelerometer (joystick 2)" not found from controllers.xml. Please report a bug if this is a game controller.
controllers/warning: "Nintendo Wii Remote IR (joystick 3)" not found from controllers.xml. Please report a bug if this is a game controller.
controllers/info: Assigned (joystick 4) as GUITAR_WII
controllers/debug: processing (joystick 4) GUITAR GODMODE (NAV_NONE) value=0
controllers/warning: "Nintendo Wii Remote Motion Plus (joystick 5)" not found from controllers.xml. Please report a bug if this is a game controller.
I was not able to get much further than this because I'm not a C++ developer, but I hope the information above can hopefully lead someone down the right track.
Output of performous --version: (What version of Performous are you using?)
Performous 1.1-955-ga09ff3e4
What is your environment & configuration (arguments, platform, ...)?
OS: Ubuntu 20.04 Libraries and packages:
- libsdl2-2.0-0 (2.0.10+dfsg1-3)
- xwiimote (2-3build2)
- bluez (5.53-0ubuntu3.2) Performous is built from the master branch in git.
