wiicop.py

Python 3 software for obtaining centre of pressure data from the Nintendo Wii board. Works on linux computers only. Also obtains subject code and experiment factors such as group (case/control), acquisition time etc. This is used by students and researchers at the British School of Osteopathy, London website.

##INSTALL INSTRUCTIONS

1. Go to here to download the zip file containing the xwiimote software and unzip it in a suitable directory. Or clone using git.

2. Go to here to download the zip file containing the xwiimote bindings and unzip it another directory. Or clone using git.

3. Install the following dependencies (ubuntu based distributions) via:

   sudo apt-get install libudev-dev libncurses5-dev libncursesw5-dev autoconf autogen libtool swig python3-dev python3-tk python3-pip

4. Install python modules:

   sudo pip3 install pyudev pandas matplotlib

5. Compile and install xwiimote library. Change (cd) to xwiimote directory (xwiimote-master), then run:

   sudo ./autogen.sh

   sudo ./configure

   sudo make

   sudo make install

6. Create the xwiimote configure file in /etc/ld.so.comf.d:

   cd /etc/ld.so.conf.d

   sudo nano xwiimote.conf

   And add the following line to this file:

   /usr/local/lib

   and save: Ctrl O, Ctrl X. Next, reload library cache using the following:

   sudo ldconfig

7. Test xwiimote libraries are installed and can connect Wiiboard by connecting Wiiboard via Bluetooth and running:

   sudo xwiishow

   and follow instructions.

8. Compile and install xwiimote python bindings. Change (cd) to xwiimote-bindings directory and run following:

   sudo ./autogen.sh

   sudo ./configure PYTHON=/usr/bin/python3

   sudo make

   sudo make install

9. Add user to input group to allow user (‘usersname’) to run xwiimote software:

   sudo usermod -a -G input usersname

   then log out and log back in again

10. Create a directory to put the wiiboard software into, e.g. ~/Wiiboard. Copy wiicop.py and WiiCopFunctions.py into this directory. Then add this directory to your python path by adding this line to your ~/.bashrc file:

    export PYTHONPATH="$PYTHONPATH:home/yourusername/path/to/wiicopdir"

11. In same directory create a directory called config_files to put study configuration files for each study. These need to be amended – see below.

12. Create a study directory and a sub directory for each study. Amend config file for each study to point to the right directory

NOTES: In Linux Mint 18 Cinnamon edition the default bluetooth (Blueberry) tool doesn't seem to work. Uninstalling it and installing Blueman seems to work:

sudo apt-get remove --purge blueberry
sudo apt-get install blueman

Then reboot