#Control your Wii U with Home Assistant!

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safe wing
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For those with a modded Wii U console, you can now integrate your console into Home Assistant via a mod called "Ristretto", with massive thanks to @warm frigate and the rest of the Nintendo/Wii community who have provided the core development, assistance, support and testing just making this possible.

Currently you are not able to turn on the console remotely as the hardware itself doesn't support things like WOL etc, however the integration does expose a "Request to turn on" trigger much like the Web OS TV integration does allowing you to put a fingerbot on the front of the console.

You can find the Wii U integration and all the necessary instructions here: - https://github.com/wiiu-smarthome/ha-wiiu/
You can also find Ristretto here - https://github.com/wiiu-smarthome/Ristretto

warm frigate
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Massive thanks to @safe wing in return for all the home assistant integration side of things. I easily got overwhelmed by the documentation and asynchronous programming, he carried this integration

hidden oyster
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I was surprised to see the smarthome WiiU in @safe wing's org list

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And then I was oike

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Wait, didn't I just help someone who worked on that

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And it was your org

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So nice that this got started here on discord

safe wing
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The Wii was literally the last thing in my entire house that was not in Home Assistant, and well when I saw what @warm frigate had been working on, I had to jump on that 😂

warm frigate
warm frigate
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Wii should be possible once I put the time into IOS patching

warm frigate
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I see you also help with SmartThings and I would like to make an edge driver for fun. I don’t have a matter, zigbee or Z wave device

safe wing
warm frigate
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Thats sort of what the vWii actually is, it’s not emulation

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Wii virtual console titles actually all use a common IOS, so making a module should be simple

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but for all Wii games and software i need to make a module for every IOS which would be time consuming and maybe not the smartest idea so thats why I haven’t done it yet

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But if I figure out the IOS patching stuff, it will also solve vWii loss of availability

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and then the only time the console will be unavailable would be when the console is offline (unless you have a fingerbot) and the applets, which I believe a solution must exist (but it’s hard because of how Cafe OS is designed but there has to be a solution somewhere)

hidden oyster
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Never seen one in my life

safe wing
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I need to research how the vWii actually works under the hood, I know of the different IOS versions from when I modded the Wii U, but never actually learnt what they did.

Why does Nintendo make such... "interesting" software stacks.. fascinating

warm frigate
# hidden oyster I don't even own a Wii u

If you’re into or you want to try Nintendo games, I have to recommend the Wii U. With a modded system you can play every Nintendo game up until the Switch(exception of 3DS)

hidden oyster
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I want my professor Layton games 😦

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Never played the 3D ones

warm frigate
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WiiUBrew and WiiBrew your friends. And if you need more info, the Aroma discord and GaryOderNichts server has very knowledgeable people

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There is also a small private discord that is more of a “Wii dev community”, if you want I can ask to invite you. People work on different projects and come from different countries. You can have a political discussion with someone totally opposite of your view and you will still be friends. Thats how good of a community it is

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(Now the Wii community in general… ehh… but this server in particular i may be able to fit you in for your help since someone else in the server uses HA Wii U)

mossy granite
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This is the niche shit I am here for lol