Wii-Scale

Wii-Scale turns your Wii Balance Board into a digital scale. Wii-Scale will automatically find your Wii Balance Board when it is connected to your computer. All you have to do is just stand on it :) No boring console interface, watch your weight being calculated in realtime on a beautiful web insterface.

You can also create multiple users for the whole family and see each members weight history. Wii-Scale runs on Linux and it also runs on a Raspberry Pi.

Wii-Scale is based on C++, node.js, AngularJS and communicates over the lightning fast WebSocket protocol.

Usage

Before you can use Wii-Scale, you need to have your balance board paired with your computer and connected. To start, just press the green "Connect" button in Wii-Scale and follow the on-screen prompts in the web interface.

The weight is calculated by taking the mean of 50 readings. Wii-Scale will ignore all weights under 30 kg to give you the most accurate reading possible. Oh, and all this will take about 3 seconds.

Installation

Wii-Scale runs most likely only on Linux. Follow these guides to install Wii-Scale on Ubuntu or Raspberry Pi:

• How to install Wii-Scale on Ubuntu
• How to install Wii-Scale on Raspberry Pi

To communicate with your Wii Balance Board you'll need a bluetooth 2.0 or 2.1 compatible device. You can find compatible devices here. Wii-Scale is based on the following dependencies Python 2, Python-pip and Node.js with npm and BlueZ bluetooth stack.

Install Wii-Scale

Download latest version of Wii-Scale:

cd <your-directory>/
git clone https://github.com/aelveborn/Wii-Scale.git --recursive --depth 1
cd Wii-Scale/

Allow non-root users to access balance board:

sudo cp wii-scale/70-wii-scales.rules /etc/udev/rules.d/

Run install:

mkdir build && cd build
cmake ../wii-scale && make
npm install --production

Run

npm start

Now the web server and Wii-Scale should be up and running at http://localhost:8080

Configuration (optional)

You can configure a different host, port and calibration.

Access the web interface from other computers

To open up the web server to be accessable from the outside, like if you'll running Wii-Scale on an Raspberry Pi or a server:

npm config set wii-scale:host 0.0.0.0

Web server port

Define a custom port for the webserver (default is 8080):

npm config set wii-scale:port 8080

Webserver host

Define a different host for the webserver (default is localhost):

npm config set wii-scale:host localhost

Calibrate Wii-Scale

If the scales weight is off by any amout you can calibrate it by your own by setting the calibration i Kg. So npm config set wii-scale:calibrate 2will add 2kg to your weight, default is set to 0.

npm config set wii-scale:calibrate 0

Update

To update Wii-Scale, grab the latest version from GitHub:

cd <your-directory>/Wii-Scale
git pull origin master

Update Wii-Scale by running install:

cd build
make
npm install --production

For developers

If you whant to make a code contribution, run a grunt clean-build before you commit and create a pull request.

Developer install

If you are a developer you can install Wii-Scale with all developer dependecies:

sudo python setup.py install
sudo npm install

If you are a developer and whant to contribute to the project, then this is some nice commands to know about.

Run:

npm start

Run all tests:

npm test

Grunt commands:

grunt
grunt build
grunt clean-build

grunt will run grunt watch and build the whole project.

Libraries

Wii-Scale uses the xwiimote, socket.io-client-cpp, glibmm / giomm and libudev libraries.

Licence

Wii-Scale is created and copyrighted by Andreas Älveborn and lincensed under GPL v2.