Wii remote
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change to root (by whichever method you chose) | change to root (by whichever method you chose) | ||
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install cwiid-utils from extras-devel. | install cwiid-utils from extras-devel. | ||
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Then create a config file. The file below is for controlling the inbuilt media player | Then create a config file. The file below is for controlling the inbuilt media player | ||
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Wiimote.Left = KEY_LEFT | Wiimote.Left = KEY_LEFT | ||
Wiimote.Right = KEY_RIGHT | Wiimote.Right = KEY_RIGHT | ||
Revision as of 15:22, 20 December 2010
There are numerous ways to achieve control of the N900 using a wii remote. Please have a look at this 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.
change to root (by whichever method you chose)
root
install cwiid-utils from extras-devel.
apt-get install cwiid-utils
if not already installed install python-cwiid
apt-get install python-cwiid
Then execute the following two commands
modprobe uinput
chmod a+rw /dev/input/uinput
Then create a config file. The file below is for controlling the inbuilt media player
<syntaxhighlight lang="bash"> Wiimote.Left = KEY_LEFT Wiimote.Right = KEY_RIGHT
Wiimote.A = KEY_SPACE Wiimote.B = KEY_SPACE
Wiimote.Minus = KEY_F7 Wiimote.Plus = KEY_F8 </syntaxhighlight>
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 usefull links: http://abstrakraft.org/cwiid/browser/wminput/action_enum.txt http://abstrakraft.org/cwiid/wiki