Is it possible to interact with a Wii Remote through a bluetooth connection using Instrument Control Toolbox 3.0 (R2011b)?

I would like to utilize the accelerometers within the Wii Remote using the Instrument Control Toolbox bluetooth capability. My machine and MATLAB INSTRHWINFO can discover the device, but when I try to open the channel to the Wii Remote using FOPEN, I get the following error:

 Error using icinterface/fopen (line 83)

 Unsuccessful open: Cannot connect to the device. Possible reasons are

 another application is

 connected

 or the device is not available.

Why am I getting this error? Is it possible to connect the Wii Remote using bluetooth to Instrument Control Toolbox?

Answer 1

[MathWorks Support Team]

The Instrument Control Toolbox cannot directly interact with the Wii Remote. The reason is that the Wii Remote uses the Bluetooth HID profile (Human Interface Device), while the Instrument Control Toolbox 3.0 (R2011b) only supports the Bluetooth SPP profile (Serial Port Profile) at this time.

There may be a couple of alternative options that could be feasible:

1. Write your own DLL or Java library that works with the bluetooth stack data and interfaces with MATLAB through the MATLAB external interfaces capability.

2. Use a third party developed library to have the Wii Remote interface with MATLAB.

Please remember that MathWorks does not support custom libraries or third party libraries and cannot guarantee their functionality.