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.
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gain root access:
root
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install cwiid-utils from extras-devel:
apt-get install cwiid-utils
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if not already installed, install python-cwiid:
apt-get install python-cwiid
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execute the following two commands:
modprobe uinput chmod a+rw /dev/input/uinput
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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 -
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:
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