[ros-users] Wiimote Nunchuk + MotionPlus

Morgan Quigley mquigley at cs.stanford.edu
Wed Aug 11 00:22:13 UTC 2010


Hi Chad,

I have seen the same behavior. In my case, it wasn't too critical, so
I gave up quickly. I imagine it wouldn't be too hard to fix, though; I
suspect they just continue to slow down the data rate by interleaving
more sensors into the data stream.

-Morgan



On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 4:30 PM, Chad Rockey <chadrockey at gmail.com> wrote:
> It appears that our current ROS driver can only ouput the Nunchuk values
> when the MotionPlus is not attached.  Can anyone confirm is this is true?  I
> didn't see a ticket and I'm not sure if this is a problem with ROS or
> with cwiid.
> I am using ROS cturtle from debs on ubuntu 10.04 64bit on a thinkpad t-61
> with integrated bluetooth.  The specific problem is that the Nunchuk topic
> does not publish data when the motion plus is attached.
> Works:
> Wiimote accelerometers and buttons: always
> Wiimote and gyros
> Wiimote and nunchuk
> Does not work:
> Wiimote, gyros, and nunchuk (although wiimote and gyros still report, the
> Nunchuk topic never publishes any data)
>
> Thanks,
>  - Chad
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