Wii remote

There are numerous ways to achieve control of the N900 using a wii remote. Please have a look at this talk.maemo.org thread.

The method described here uses cwiid and wminput. This method is an expansion on the instructions provided here by the user thp, who re-packaged cwiid.

1. gain root access:

   root

2. install cwiid-utils from extras-devel:

   apt-get install cwiid-utils

3. if not already installed, install python-cwiid:

   apt-get install python-cwiid

4. execute the following two commands:

   modprobe uinput
   chmod a+rw /dev/input/uinput
   

5. create a config file. The file below is for controlling the built-in media player

   Wiimote.Left    = KEY_LEFT
   Wiimote.Right   = KEY_RIGHT
   
   Wiimote.A       = KEY_SPACE
   Wiimote.B       = KEY_SPACE
   
   Wiimote.Minus   = KEY_F7
   Wiimote.Plus    = KEY_F8
   

   The code was saved in /home/user/.cwiid/wminput/mediaplayer. This is one of the places that gets searched by wminput as detailed here

6. once saved, ensure Bluetooth is on and simply execute:

   wminput -c mediaplayer

   from the command line. Then press the 1 and 2 buttons on thhe wii remote and the command line should say ready after a little while. Once done simply start the media player. Once started simply use the wii remote buttons to control it. You can skip songs (forward and backward), pause/play and change volume.

If you want to carry out some coding using python and wii remote look here

Here is also some further useful links:

• http://abstrakraft.org/cwiid/browser/wminput/action_enum.txt
• http://abstrakraft.org/cwiid/wiki