Wii Light Controller

This is a python thingy created to show at expos for the University of Oslo.

Setup

• Put an OLA image on a SD card
• Disable all plugins in ~pi/.ola except ola-uartdmx.conf
• Install cwiid (see the dependencies section for relevant pacakges)
• Create an init script that runs utils/set_output_mode.sh on boot.

Starting

• Start olad (Optionally with -l 3 if you want debug info)
• Run src/main.py <Amount of lights>
• Press 1 and 2 on the wii-mote to connect.

Dependencies

Hardware

• Open Lighting Architecture supported DMX device
• Wii-mote
• Bluetooth dongle

Software

• Python 2.7
• cwiid (apt-get install libcwiid1 lswm wminput)
• ola (open lighting architecture)

Helpfull pages

Running stuff - http://www.raspberrypi-dmx.com/raspberry-pi-ola-dmx512-sender

Pre-compiled OLA Raspbian image - http://dl.openlighting.org/

Creating your own OLA Raspbian image - https://wiki.openlighting.org/index.php/Building_a_Custom_Raspbian_Image