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11.10.2007 01:50:15

Wiimote calibration no seeing top part of screen.

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What a great app!!! Thank you so very much.

Been having some problems calibrating the wiimote. Aim at screen and press A works great. During the next step, when you have to point to the edges of the screen, I can not get the red dots to go completely to the top of the black box.

I've tried using both a IR strip that came with the wii as well as a candle, but i always get the same results. I've changed the placement of the IR and it always ends up the same. It's about the top 1/5 of the screen that i can not access.

If i forge ahead and accept, the IR mouse accesses the entire screen except the bottom 1/5 of the screen. I'm assuming there is a correlation.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

These entries from the FAQ may be relevant to this topic:

Hardware - Apple® Remote

After uninstalling/quitting Remote Buddy, my Mac® no longer reacts to the Apple® Remote. (FAQ015E0241)
To enable you to use all capabilities of the IR Receiver of your Mac®, Remote Buddy is using its own driver. In contrast, all other applications with integrated Apple® Remote support usually use the OS X Apple® Remote subsystem.

As long as you're running Remote Buddy, Remote Buddy and its driver are responsible for turning the received button presses into actions. As soon as you quit Remote Buddy, this task is again handled by the OS X Apple® Remote subsystem.

If other applications don't use the interface to the OS X Apple® Remote subsystem correctly, this can lead to the effect that nothing happens when you press a button on your Apple® Remote. For as long as you're running Remote Buddy, issues like this are covered by Remote Buddy and it's driver and are therefore not visible to you. However, as soon as you quit Remote Buddy, the OS X Apple® Remote subsystem is back in control and any issues caused in it by other applications become visible.

Therefore Remote Buddy is neither the cause of the issue nor is it responsible for it. Instead, the cause of the issue exists independently of Remote Buddy. It's located elsewhere and can also only be solved there.

Although our products can't cause any such issues, we're regularly contacted about such issues and asked for help. In order to make locating and fixing the cause of such issues as easy and efficient as possible, we've developed a free diagnostics tool: Remote Control Diagnostics. It can locate issues with a single click and will provide you with information about the issue as well as with instructions on how you can fix it.

Hardware - Wii™ Remote

What is the calibration functionality in the Wii™ remote settings there for? (FAQ015E0195)
The calibraton function does not serve the purpose of adapting the sensor to low power IR light sources nor does it in any way influence the communication with the Wii™ Remote or change its settings in any way. It is purely a function of the driver, which should only be used if you can not reach one or more borders of your screen.
When in mouse mode, the position of the mouse pointer on the screen is determined by where the sensor field in the front of the remote recognizes the infrared light source. If objects are hindering the path between remote and sensor, the borders of the screen can no longer be reached.

This is exactly where the calibration function kicks in. Using it, you can intuitively determine which area of the sensor should be used to interpolate to your screen coordinates. Therefore, start calibration and follow the instructions on the screen. The goal is to maximize the size of the rectangle on the screen with your movements.
The IR mouse mode does not seem to work - even if I point the remote to the screen or IR receiver. (FAQ015E0175)
Built into the Wii™ Remote is an infrared sensor, that can locate several, punctual infrared light sources and report their location to Remote Buddy.
It's impossible to determine the position of the remote control - and thus also moving the mouse cursor - without at least one of these infrared lightsources.
When using the game console, the so called sensor bar is supplying this IR light source. The name is a bit misleading, as it does not contain any sensors at all, just IR diodes, that emit light in the IR spectrum - which is invisible to the human eye.
If no sensor bar is available to you - or if the IR diodes in it are currently turned off, another infrared light source is required. Infrared radiation is also called heat radiation. Simply said, when there's heat, there's infrared light, too. Using this physical phenomena, you can also use very hot objects as infrared light source - whereas f.ex. tealights and candles are especially predestined. Always make sure to exclude the possibility of a fire and any other risks, when using burning candles, tealights or very hot objects,
An infrared receiver can not be used as infrared lightsource. It can only receive, not emit infrared light.
TV sets and monitors don't create light in the infrared range that would be strong enough, either.
In order to use the infrared mouse mode, you have to point your remote control to the IR lightsource. You can easily check, whether this source is strong enough by having a look at the options of your remote in Remote Buddy's preferences (in the Hardware tab). There, all light sources recognized by the IR sensor are displayed for as long as the IR mouse mode is active.
You can find more information on infrared light on f.ex. Wikipedia (Link to external article).

User

11.10.2007 02:46:42

Re: Wiimote calibration no seeing top part of screen.

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Hi!

The way the IR was made (the driver and the hardware itself), it is enough to have one source of light, but having two (7 inches apart as in the original sensor bar) will make it a little better as it will know if you have rotated the control while pointing.

To make things easier, let's say you have just one led/candle/etc.

When not calibrated (or when calibrated to use all the possible area, up to the edges in all directions in the calibration window), the mouse cursor will be at the center of the screen when you point the wii control exactly in the direction of the source of the light, making it on the center of the IR camera.

Of course this is not good, because you want (with some accuracy) to make the pointer go exactly where you are pointing. That means that you should put the IR Leds in right the center of the TV screen, in front of the tube.

But you have to choose to put them above the TV or below the TV. This means that the mouse cursor will center on the screen when you point the remote a little above or a little below the center, and you have to consider this "offset" all the time.

This is annoying, but at least you have all the possible range of the control to use for more accuracy. If you want to make the cursor go to the center when you really point at the center, and still have the sensor bar above the TV, you will have to lose some area/resolution to compensate for this. The usefull range will be a little lower in the vertical axis.

That should be no problem for most users, but in my TV (a big LCD one) I found that the smaller range did make difference. With the sensor bar at the top, while calibrating, the light source hit the botton of the calibration window way before I really pointed the botton of the TV.

After some time I noticed that the farer from the TV I was, the less that mattered. The range get better when you go away form the sensor bar. The problem was that I was testing too close. After calibrating from sitting on the sofa, where I would really be using the remote, I was enough to be ok.

I hope that helps.
Andre

User

12.10.2007 19:07:03

Re: Wiimote calibration no seeing top part of screen.

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Dave,

the idea behind the calibration feature is to set new boundaries
within which the sensor can see the bright IR spot (from your sensor
bar or otherwise). Remote Buddy will then use these new boundaries to
interpolate the sensor position to the mouse cursor position on your
screen.

Unless you have an unusual setup, you shouldn't touch that option,
though as the default settings work just fine for regular setups.

You can go back to the default calibration data (the Reset button
won't do that) by removing either the data for the key CalibrationData
in the com.iospirit.remotebuddy.jp.n.vm.*.plist file in ~/Library/
Preferences/ - or, if you haven't invested time in reconfiguring
buttons, by just deleting that file. In either case, removing or
changing that file should only be done while Remote Buddy is not
running.

Best regards,
Felix

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