Wiimote broken (this may be relevant to Ubuntu so will crosspost)

I'm using a Wiimote shown in blueman as Nintendo RVL-CNT-01. It worked yesterday with wminput and Wiican to allow me to use the wiimote as a FlightGear joystick but today it does not. The batteries I swear lasted 4 days if that is what it is.

Yesterday (simulated):
jack@jack-laptop:~$ wminput -c acc_jstick
Put Wiimote in discoverable mode now (press 1+2)...
Ready.

and in FGFS it worked.

Today,

Code:

jack@jack-laptop:~$ wminput Put Wiimote in discoverable mode now (press 1+2)... Socket read error (handshake) Send report error (report mode) Error reseting report mode User defined signal 1