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I've searched for solutions but none worked me, and I know that it works fine because my brother can play with his laptop perfectly, but it doesn't work for me. By this reason I think that it is due to my PC but I don't know what can I do, and maybe you would know just how to fix it. Thanks anyway.

I think the problem is your bluetooth owns the Wiimote, and you have a DolphinBar plugged in. Disable your bluetooth and sync up the Wiimote with hte DolphinBar and put it on mode 4 for newer builds.

I just unplugged my Dolphinbar and connected my wiimote with the Toshiba Stack. It worked exactly as it always has!

4.0-2241 -> https://dolphin-emu.org/download/dev/master/4.0-2241/

Thanks for the help, but I already tried these solutions and not work for me. At first I thought it needed the dolphinbar to connect the wiimote in 2241 version and I bought it, but I saw that was not the problem. I just disable my bluetooth and connect through dolphinbar but it didn't work. I've tried installing Toshiba Stack several times but my PC seems not supported because I think I need an external bluetooth device and I don't have it. I don't know if there may be a solution or not.

Nothing changed with non-dolphinbar stuff though. If you unplug the DolphinBar, you can still connect, right?

No, that's the problem that I don't understand. Without dolphinbar I can connect my wiimote in previous versions, but not in later versions. So I bought the Dolphinbar, but I saw that that was not the problem. I can play only on older revisions, connecting wiimote and dolphinbar separately, but I would play with the latest updates.

Can you try to follow the instructions in this thread? -> https://forums.dolphin-emu.org/Thread-mayflash-dolphinbar-guide

Thanks, but I tried this and it didn't work me.

I don't have a dolphin bar and I can confirm with revision 4.0.2238, my original wiimote can be connected in Dolphin (when I press refresh in the controller menu and then press the 1 & 2 button on the wiimote, the wiimote shake).

With revision 4.0.2241, dolphin will hang and the wiimote will not shake at all. Dolphin does not hang right away after I press the refresh button.
In the controller panel, I also have checked:

• enable speaker data
• continuous scanning
• wiimote motor

I revision 4.0.2238, I have the same options checked and it works right away.

My guess is that something changed in revision 2239, 2240 or 2241 can is causing this problem. And if only dolphin bar code changed in those revision, then revision 4.0.2238 wiimote IS using the dolphin bar code (when it shouldn't) but by luck, it can still sync !

I know it is written that the changes between both revision is supposed to only be related to dolphin bar stuff, but I am telling you it is not.

I have windows 8.1 64 bit, sony laptop with intel bluetooth hardware running toshiba bluetooth stack 9.10.32.

The wiimote is correctly linked in the toshiba bluetooth stack.

Correction: Dolphin DOES hang right after I press the refresh button.

Unfortunately there is a great many possibilities that could be causing this problem, and until we can narrow it down we won't be able to find a solution. :(

woodspire borgon: If you are up to it, come onto the IRC (#dolphin-emu on Freenode), and maybe we can help you there. The IRC will let us do the rapid back and forth required to try to narrow this down.

Did a preliminary IRC chat with MaJoRoesch and with both the toshiba and microsoft stack, revision 2241 and up hang when cliking the refresh button to scan for real wiimotes.

I not even necessary to have a wiimote to hang dolphin this way.

So the wiimote detection code might be correct, but dolphin somehow hang before calling it.

And it seems the change in the file Source/Core/Core/HW/WiimoteReal/IOWin.cpp
is what is causing the hang or direct the code execution somewhere is that is hanging.

will try to install VS2013 and compile the latest dolphin source for windows from github but while reverting changes to IOWin.cpp to see if I am able to at least, not hang dolphin while scanning for the wiimote.

I tried ubuntu 15.04 x64 on a usb stick and dolphin 4.0.6112.

No problem finding the wiimote, so it's not an hardware problem on my sony vaio S laptop.

Will try another os (windows 7 or 8 x64) to see if I can pinpoint the problem.

Currently, my guest is that a fresh windows 8.1 x64 install might work; it's that I did to many bluetooth stack|driver install|uninstall that what is shown to dolphin mess up the wiimote refresh search.

I created a "windows to go" windows 8.1 usb hdd drive and installed:

• intel bluetooth driver
• dolphin 4.0.6112

the wiimote was detected by the bluetooth stack, and dolphin did NOT crash when I clicked the refresh button; and it found the wiimote and the remote shaked (and the light #1 stayed on while the other 3 stopped flashing)

So it's not a windows 8.1 x64 or hardware problem, but a software | windows update | driver that is causing this 'hang' problem in dolphin.

Will try to do a cleanup in my main windows 8.1 installation and will report back if I am able to found the software that is causing this problem. Maybe it's the SCP driver that I used previously to use the ps3 controller as a wiimote.

SCP takes complete control of the bluetooth adapter, so it must be installed to use a ps3 controller and uninstall when trying to use anything else over bluetooth. Maybe some stuff are confusing dolphin wiimote detection...

Updated windows to go 8.1 enterprise x64 and dolphin still works correctly. Must be a driver or setting I did in windows since I installed it. My main windows OS was upgraded from 7 to 8 and then 8.1 so it might be the cause of the problem.

I finally found the problem (at least, on my pc)

It's sony wireless state device driver, which create an HID entry in device manager called: Sony wireless device

The installer can be found here: http://esupport.sony.com/CA/p/swu-download.pl?mdl=SVS151190S&upd_id=7869&os_group_id=24

It seems to related to usb HID device detection; that my be why it is crashing dolphin and that the code modification to detect the dolphin bar might be involved.

I cannot simply disabled the device in device manager, but uninstalling it fix the problem in dolphin (must uninstall the whole software bundle because on next boot, the device will be detected again and will be reinstalled)

If you want, I can give you screenshots and information about the device.

Here is the name of the sony wireless state device:

ACPI\SNYA008\4&512D3B4&0

Apart from an unknown device in windows device manager, I can't find the usage for it.

Sony vaio smart network works (toggle wireless features on|off), as vaio control center (change settings, like volume, brightness, hybrid graphic, lock trackpad)

I am 90% sure that the code change to handle the dolphin bar also affect this device, and it is treated as a dolphin bar so the wrong code path is taken and dolphin is waiting for a response from the dolphin bar that it will never receive.

I went back to my default windows 8.1 x64 installation, uninstall the sony wireless state device driver (not from the device manager but from the uninstall program list, it's listed as windows update sony croporation (typo!) HIDClass)

and now, dolphin 4.0.6112 works !

didn't test dolphin 4.0.2241, but I am 99% sure it will work.

Conclusion: 4.0.2241 code for the dolphin bar does not handle the sony wireless state device driver, and since the device cannot be disabled in device manager, the software currently must be removed.

Impact, unknown since I have no idea of the usage of this software
But in device manager, I know have an unknown device.

Can you review the code to see what can be wrong ?

I am betting it's this code: (from https://github.com/dolphin-emu/dolphin/pull/661/files)

else if (err != 0x1F) // Some third-party adapters (DolphinBar) use this

•   		                       // error code to signal the absence of a WiiMote
  

•   		                       // linked to the HID device.
  

Do you think that Windows 10 update will fix the problem?

Finally after so long, I was able to solve the problem. You were right, it was definitely the Sony Wireless Device State that is not supported by Dolphin bar. At last I was able to find it and uninstall it, and so Dolphin recognize my wiimote at last. Thank you very much for the help.

Hmm, I also have this problem on Win 8.1 and I knew that the problem was on my side. Thanks for the pointer.

Here's one thing I noticed. In Win 8.1 my Bluetooth recognize wiimote but post 2241 Dolphin won't unless I first connect it on older Dolphin. After that I can connect to newer emulators normally. Strange.

Could you see if this is fixed in the latest builds of Dolphin? It's very possible the Wiimote fixes from the latest build fix this as well.