I've put a request in for a stickie on this thread.
But fledge68 just said on the last page he isn't planning on supporting it anymore.
I've put a request in for a stickie on this thread.
put the ini files in wiiflow/plugins folder then in wiiflow lite go to plugin view and then goto the home menu and choose select plugins which will take you to the select plugin menu. put a check mark in all that wish to use. and go back. but for you there is no homebrew.ini plugin. maybe one can be made and added to wiiflow lite code.Oh, that's interesting!
I'm not sure I understand how to use this though. Seems to be a bunch of ini files, and the Readme implies it does something else (plugin select menu can be used like source menu?).
Ah, cool thanks! Having a homebrew ini would be great, but for the sake of my planned use, I could just make NAND channel forwarders for the few apps I want like I currently have. Then it'll show up. Having an official homebrew ini would make it easier to add/manage what's in there though, and especially if other people end up wanting to do what I'm doing (customizing the UI for appliance-style specific use installation).put the ini files in wiiflow/plugins folder then in wiiflow lite go to plugin view and then goto the home menu and choose select plugins which will take you to the select plugin menu. put a check mark in all that wish to use. and go back. but for you there is no homebrew.ini plugin. maybe one can be made and added to wiiflow lite code.
as for this thread being stickied. cool, i'm honored but it doesn't have to be. i don't plan on releasing a lot of new revisions of wiiflow lite (but one is coming soon). like cyan i don't have a lot of free time. and lets face it. wii homebrew is pretty much dead. there's the wii u and switch now.
I have to say, people seem to prefer USBLoader forwii stuff, but wiiflow is an absolute winner for large coverflows - the best future, to my mind, is as a coverbrowser for emulator games and media - that seems to be how people are using it. Theres definately room for integration with wiimc+ and wiixplorer.
As for the wii being dead- its a dirt cheap, sophisticated mini pc. I use one - i got for £5 because the dvd drive doesnt work -as a file server - it runs on about 13watts, or something!?! I love 'em.
Thanks! I was weighing all sorts of other options first, then eventually realized this was a far better one for a carputer entertainment system. Of course I've been setting it to boot into wiiflow. That's the easy part. Setting it up so that everything was button-friendly without any pointing required was the challenge. As of now I've got it down to two menus, one that I called "Main Menu", which is the renamed NAND source with apps like VC games and WiiMC, and the other is Wii games. The B-button swaps between the two, and everything is launched with A. Ideally it shouldn't matter if they want to play Super Bomberman or Mario Kart Wii, I think everything should be in the same menu. That's how I ended up here asking about features.@Tetsuo Shima is a guy who boots straight into wiiflow - he might have a few thoughts - you're using it as an entertainment system in a car?
That is a fantastische idea, sir. I applaud you!
Honda Odyssey rear entertainment system screen. Also a secondary screen I installed up front, because while the driver should keep their eyes on the road, there's no reason the front passenger has to miss out! I have sort of plastic shelf I made which fits under the third row of seats and contains the wii, power supply, excess cable slack (tied up to keep it tidy), and a video amplifier because initially the screens got darker when they were both on versus one or the other (signal out of the wii apparently wasn't strong enough to power two displays with a simple Y-splitter). I know the Wii could be powered off 12v, as I think that's actually the voltage going in from the power supply, and the video amp is too, but the minivan has a built-in 110V 100Watt load inverter, so it was just a lot neater to have a standard household extension cord that could be easily unplugged and the entire system removed if we fold the seats down to haul cargo. I have a lot more info and even some pictures here:EDIT - how are you powering it, what is the video out going into?
That's some great info - thanks - put on a thread somewhere here, theres a few hardware things.Thanks! I was weighing all sorts of other options first, then eventually realized this was a far better one for a carputer entertainment system. Of course I've been setting it to boot into wiiflow. That's the easy part. Setting it up so that everything was button-friendly without any pointing required was the challenge. As of now I've got it down to two menus, one that I called "Main Menu", which is the renamed NAND source with apps like VC games and WiiMC, and the other is Wii games. The B-button swaps between the two, and everything is launched with A. Ideally it shouldn't matter if they want to play Super Bomberman or Mario Kart Wii, I think everything should be in the same menu. That's how I ended up here asking about features.
Honda Odyssey rear entertainment system screen. Also a secondary screen I installed up front, because while the driver should keep their eyes on the road, there's no reason the front passenger has to miss out! I have sort of plastic shelf I made which fits under the third row of seats and contains the wii, power supply, excess cable slack (tied up to keep it tidy), and a video amplifier because initially the screens got darker when they were both on versus one or the other (signal out of the wii apparently wasn't strong enough to power two displays with a simple Y-splitter). I know the Wii could be powered off 12v, as I think that's actually the voltage going in from the power supply, and the video amp is too, but the minivan has a built-in 110V 100Watt load inverter, so it was just a lot neater to have a standard household extension cord that could be easily unplugged and the entire system removed if we fold the seats down to haul cargo. I have a lot more info and even some pictures here:
http://www.odyclub.com/forums/11-au...ent-mod-res-media-games-secondary-screen.html
Wii icon- you mean the cover for the Wii source? I'm indifferent to that one, it sort of gets the point across and makes sense. The NAND icon I hated, and since I was renaming NAND to "main menu", I made my own cover icon for that. I like that it looks sort of like an app drawer icon on Android, and happens to be the icon Nintendo uses for their channel menu.That's some great info - thanks - put on a thread somewhere here, theres a few hardware things.
I see you use the sourceflow - good call - me too! hate the wii icon tho - I have my own somewhere....
I've just discovered that combining all sources is one of the cool feature added to Wiiflow Lite. You have to copy the 'extra plugins' from https://sourceforge.net/projects/wiiflow-lite/files/plugins/ in the WiiFlow/plugins folder.
put the ini files in wiiflow/plugins folder then in wiiflow lite go to plugin view and then goto the home menu and choose select plugins which will take you to the select plugin menu. put a check mark in all that wish to use. and go back. but for you there is no homebrew.ini plugin. maybe one can be made and added to wiiflow lite code.
That doesn't work. I tried that first. There's also a way to make a source called "all plugins" so you don't even need to deal with magic #, but Wii and channel titles (NAND) aren't considered plugins so that was pointless. That is, until the extra plugin inis were pointed out above that MAKE them considered plugins. That's the secret sauce I was missing.I'm sorry move only just seen your post about combining sources. You edit the source menu ini, found in the source menu folder in your wiiflow folder in the root of your device. you can add multiple plugins to one button/cover by separating the magic numbers with a comma. You can find the magic number in the ini file of the plugin you want to add. These ini files are in device/wiiflow/plugins.
The source menu ini also points to the image you want to use for the plugin.
You can make up plugins that point to play lists, for example... I'm just learning about them now. But it's surprisingly sophisticated
For fear of hijacking the thread,
it didn't work how?
I've used this in the past and I might need to include instructions on doing it in a help file I'm writing. What didn't happen that you wanted to happen?
HOLY COW THAT WAS REMARKABLY EASY! Its all on one flow now! So cool!
The only thing I still wish I could still do, now that I'm seeing this, is pick certain things to be in additional flows, separated by how I deem them and not by what they are. For example all games, whether they are wii backup ISOs, VCs in NAND, or emulators in one flow. Then wiimc, and maybe even certain disc ISOs like Wii fit (which is being used in my house to track diet progress, not as a game) in a different "non game" one. Like, I wish we could set a category and then have alternate flows based on that instead of sources. But now I'm getting too far ahead of myself. Being able to get them all together is a huge step for me and something I didn't think would be this simple. Thank you!
You should be able to create a seperate source based on categories. See this example : https://gbatemp.net/threads/wiiflow-an-open-source-gui-usb-loader.204106/page-746#post-4920745