Use your wiimote 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
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

• install the software for using the WiiMote as a mouse:

# sudo apt-get install wminput

# sudo modprobe uinput

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

Other tools

• wmgui