Difference between revisions of "Use your wiimote as mouse"

Revision as of 10:39, 28 February 2010

Your WiiMote (from the Wii Console) is a bluetooth device. This article describes how to use it as a mouse. It has been tested with Ubuntu 9.04.

# hwinfo --bluetooth --short
bluetooth:
                       Cambridge Silicon Radio Bluetooth Dongle (HCI mode)

find out the you can bluetooth-connect to your WiiMote. Press 1 and 2 on your WiiMote:

# hcitool scan
Scanning ...
        00:16:4E:62:BE:31       Nokia 6230i
        00:1C:BE:EB:2A:96       Nintendo RVL-CNT-01

# sudo apt-get install wminput

# sudo modprobe uinput

# sudo wminput 00:1C:BE:EB:2A:96

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-Your WiiMote (from the Wii Console) is a bluetooth device. To use it as mouse
+Your WiiMote (from the Wii Console) is a bluetooth device. This article describes how to use it as a mouse. It has been tested with Ubuntu 9.04.
 * find out that you have a bluetooth adapter
   # hwinfo --bluetooth --short