Hardware Using a Switch as a Gamepad

[Ender37]

Is it possible? From what I've heard, the Gamepad doesn't much internally, streaming everything from the console. Thus, would it be possible to get the console to stream it to a Switch instead?

 

[The Catboy]

Easy and short answer is no

 

[Deleted User]

The WiiU gamepad has a lot of chips inside....which make sure only the signal from the console will be accepted.Without these chips (cough, ithis system is called "DRH") which stands for a communication-hub, you can't connect any device to the console & expect it to stream. Yes, both components (the WiiU console itself & the gamepad) have these components inside.

The WiiU gamepad does a lot of processing, you'd be astonished. Without it you couldn't even Update your console. Because the Gamepad itself contains the firmware-update-chip (32 mbytes, very big in size) as well.
So what would you update with any standard-pad when there's no firmware-update in the console itself? lol
A console with a failed firmware-update can't boot. The WiiU however is special & can boot wether you connect a gamepad to it or not (faulty firmware doesn't matter). This decission was done on purpose because many consoles/PCs these days get damaged/stop working after a firmware-update of the bios/uefi-bios.

The WiiU Gamepad's DRH also controls red/green/blue colours & adjusts the contents in your stream. E.g. if it detects a fast racing game, colour red is reduced & bitrate gets bigger.

 

[Brayton1-7]

I've tried this using Ubuntu and DRC-SIM on my Nintendo Switch. I believe the only problem was the Wi-Fi card in the Switch, but I might've just messed something up...

 

[piratesephiroth]

The gamepad uses 5GHz wi-fi to connect to the Wii U.