Wii U Pro Controller via internal bluetooth?

[xtreemsurf]

@tifsmo

I also want to set up a Wii U Pro controller. I'm hope big to hold out until the onboard Bluetooth is supported, but not sure how long that will be...so I'm thinking of buying a dongle. Which one did you decide to buy?

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This is not a matter of internal bluetooth or not (which is not a very good adapter, so to say ...), but how Linux sees it (mouse ? keyboard ? joystick ?) And what is missing to make it work 100%

[tifsmo]

finally my wii u pro controller arrived in the mail today. first i tried it to pair without any dongle in recalbox 4.0. as expected nothing.

then i plugged in a random dongle i found in one of my drawers. plugged that baby in one of the usb ports, booted up recalbox, went to the menu to pair it. and IT WORKED. no hassle, no nothing. it works 100% as far as i can tell. i managed to configure every button and it works in menu as well as in-game.

so i don't think you need to fix anything but to enable the internal bluetooth.

for everyone who is interested in what bluetooth dongle i used: "logilink bt0013".

thank all of you again for your time.

happy gaming!
cheers
tim

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@tifsmo i'd be very interested in your es_inputs.cfg file

[tifsmo]

i'll make sure to send it to you if you tell me where i can find that file and how i get it over to my pc

[xtreemsurf]

@tifsmo said in Wii U Pro Controller via internal bluetooth?:

finally my wii u pro controller arrived in the mail today. first i tried it to pair without any dongle in recalbox 4.0. as expected nothing.

then i plugged in a random dongle i found in one of my drawers. plugged that baby in one of the usb ports, booted up recalbox, went to the menu to pair it. and IT WORKED. no hassle, no nothing. it works 100% as far as i can tell. i managed to configure every button and it works in menu as well as in-game.

so i don't think you need to fix anything but to enable the internal bluetooth.

for everyone who is interested in what bluetooth dongle i used: "logilink bt0013".

thank all of you again for your time.

happy gaming!
cheers
tim

Well, I was planning to wait until 4.1 to use my Wii U Pro controller, but then I read your post. I dug out an old Bluetooth adapter that's about 8 years old, plugged it in, and the Wii U Pro controller paired/configured perfectly. Thanks!

[tifsmo]

@xtreemsurf said in Wii U Pro Controller via internal bluetooth?:

Well, I was planning to wait until 4.1 to use my Wii U Pro controller, but then I read your post. I dug out an old Bluetooth adapter that's about 8 years old, plugged it in, and the Wii U Pro controller paired/configured perfectly. Thanks!

awesome! yeah that is pretty much the same story for me. glad it worked

[tifsmo]

@Substring said in Wii U Pro Controller via internal bluetooth?:

@tifsmo i'd be very interested in your es_inputs.cfg file

figured out how to access the input.cfg. here you go: https://www.dropbox.com/s/chvf4rmodp8l2n5/es_input.cfg?dl=0

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@tifsmo GERAT ! thanks ! That way the controller will be mapped by default on a next release

[Anonpebbles]

I'm having trouble connecting my wiiU pro controller too. I can get it connected via bluetoothctl but it recognises it as a wii remote instead of the wii u controller. Only the +, - and home buttons work and I cannot map anything else. Anyone had a similar issue? Running recalbox from the XU4

[OyyoDams]

@anonpebbles This is an old topic. Please start a new one.