XWIISHOW(1)

🎀 xwiishow(1) — Test connected Wii Remote devices 🎀

From the Wii Remote Driver manual, bestie. This is the little tool for testing connected Wii Remote devices, and we’re gonna make it make sense.

✨ NAME ✨

xwiishow — test connected Wii Remote devices. That’s the whole assignment, and it ate. 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

xwiishow [-h]
xwiishow list
xwiishow <num>
xwiishow /sys/bus/hid/devices/<device>

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

Okay so bestie, xwiishow is your test buddy for Wii Remotes. When you call it with no arguments, it shows a short usage information. Lowkey helpful. ✨

If you give it the list parameter, it lists all connected Wii Remotes. Every connected Wii Remote gets a number. If you pass that number to xwiishow, then that device is opened and the UI shows a graphical representation of the device. No cap. 🫶

Instead of passing that number, you can also pass an absolute path to the device-root in the sysfs directory. Iconic flexibility. 🦋

In the ncurses-based interface, you can press 'q' to quit the application, 'r' to toggle the rumble motor, and 'a' to toggle the accelerometer. See the xwiishow help text for a more comprehensive list of shortcuts. IYKYK. 🔥

🦋 EXAMPLES 🦋

Here’s literally what it looks like, bestie:

$ xwiishow list
No device path given. Listing devices:
  Found device:
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.1/usb3/3-2/3-2:1.0/bluetooth/hci0/hci0:11/0005:057E:0306.0001
End of device list

$ xwiishow
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.1/usb3/3-2/3-2:1.0/bluetooth/hci0/hci0:11/0005:057E:0306.0001
<ncurses based interface>

💀 BUGS 💀

Real talk: this tool is quite incomplete. It does not support all interfaces that are provided by the wiimote kernel driver. However, it provides enough functionality to test whether a Wii Remote is detected properly. So like, it’s giving useful but not fully cooked. 😭

The tool reads the input devices directly so you might need root rights to properly access the Wii Remote.

Heads-up, bestie: that “might need root rights” part is not a drill. 🔥

👑 AUTHOR 👑

• David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@googlemail.com> — the author, periodt.
• The XWiimote Project: http://dvdhrm.github.io/xwiimote

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• xwiimote(7), libxwiimote(7),

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Sign-off time, bestie: David Herrmann • February 2012 • XWIISHOW(1) — mwah 💋💖