CWIID and support for WII balance board

[windy54]

Hi,

does CWIID support the WII balance board?
If so, has anyone got an example script that works?

I have used CWIID to connect to a wiimote and control a maplins robotic arm, so my python set up is okay. I am struggling to read any data back from the balance board, it does seem to connect to it.

At the moment I am confused as to what I actually installed to get CWIID to work and am retracing my steps to try and understand what I did, why and this time write it down!

Although I have got lots of experience in developing software, I am new to Linux, Python, the PI etc.

Thanks

[malakai]

I don't ever recall seeing an article on someone interfacing with the balance board and the Pi but this 5 year old article would seem to say it works. At the bottom is some python code that turns it into a weight machine which seemed fun.

http://abstrakraft.org/cwiid/ticket/63

[windy54]

Thanks for the response, I have seen this posting, but believe I have got to rebuild the library myself . Which I do not mind doing, if I can work out how, I.e. what compiler do I have to install on my PI, etc.

I am considering installing UBUNTU on my PC and then see if I can rebuild the library.