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I didn't want to undo the original sensor bar every time. The switch is how long to stay one and the button is to turn it on. I wish the made just a small LED light blink. I bought this as a second sensor bar to take traveling. It beeps loudly when the end of the time limit is near. So everyone in the adjoining rooms is awakened by its alarm clock beeping. Every hour or so depending on the time setting.
So can't keep batteries in while you travel since the button sticks up. This thing has one switch and one button. Also since you can not turn it off it is annoying. Oh finished playing but what is that alarm still going off.
The fact that there were no gotcha's, it seriously just works. You know, how many things in today's high tech world just work. You just put in the batteries, turn it on and you have senor bar. I'm a computer programmer who's always been into tech and frankly I'm very used to having to spend at least an hour working out the gotcha's. And I mean just work. Well with the Nykno wireless sensor bar I did end up spending out the most bizzar gotcha ever. Highly recommended
I moved up a bit and it worked fine (just like the stock sensor). I plan on returning the item tomorrow since it simply did not deliever the distance it markets. My living room is quite large and the standard Wii sensor bar leaves the on-screen arrow acting jumping, along with a delayed game response (which is quite aggrevating when playing Mario Kart). so I purchased this sensor from Wal-Mart today to fix the problem.
If you have a large space, hold onto the recipt incase you encounter the same problem I have. I gave it 2 stars because generally, the stock sensor will work fine. After calibrating the remotes with the new sensor in the Wii menu, the jumpiness was reduced minimally and the delay still existed. Unfortunately for me, it did not.
I measured the location of the sensor bar from where I was sitting and it was almost 25 feet. If you really want to go wireless, than the price can justify the purchase.
Battery life is limited to a few days and there is no sleep mode, the only option for power management is a 1 or 2 hour timer that lets loose with screeching before shutting down. [.].Rorke Haining's review linked above beat me to the punch. In short, it's a great concept but rather than battery powered it would be better to have an option for a power adapter - either to a USB port, to a plug-in charger, or even to the Wii connector. Wireless is great if you can set it and forget it for a few months, but I'll probably either modify it such that I can power it externally or buy a Nintendo Wii Sensor Bar Extension Cable.
I actually ended up installing a power jack into mine - it took a little drilling, soldering, and super glue but it works nicely now. I have a projector setup for my home theater so the sensor bar needed to sit 15 feet away from the wii itself. No batteries. This wireless sensor bar did the trick nicely. The cable on the included sensor bar wasn't going to cut it. At first the pointer was jumpy when I sat across the room but then I discovered there is a sensitivity setting in the wii menu and everything works perfectly now.In my opinion it would be nice if the sensor bar had a way to plug it in so you don't have to run it off batteries. :)
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