Monday, April 18, 2011

Connecting Wii Balance Board to Windows

Reference: Courtesy and Copyright © by V. Miszalok



How to connect the balance board to your Windows 7 PC:
Plug a Bluetooth adapter into an USB-Port: Open the battery compartment of the balance board. Insert 4 very good AA batteries. The battery compartment contains a tiny push SYNC nub.



Temporary Bluetooth pairing method:
Drawback: This method must be repeated whenever the PC (e.g. after sleep mode) or the balance board (f. i. after pausing) lost their Bluetooth connection.

1.1. Start → Control Panel → Devices and Printers. Remove any Nintendo Device.

1.2. Push the tiny SYNC nub inside the balance board's battery compartment and hold it.

1.3. Add a device → Nintendo RVL-WBC-01 should appear as shown on the right. Select it. Next → Pair without using a code.

1.4. Keep pushing the SYNC button until the Nintendo RVL-WBC-01 is fully connected. Wait until both messages "Device driver software installed successfully" and Bluetooth HID device is installed successfully" appear and vanish (can take up to 2 minutes).

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