Difference between revisions of "Wiimote"

Revision as of 09:09, 23 June 2010

It is possible to control your APF board with a Wiimote through a Bluetooth interface.

Installation

• if not already available, install uinput driver

$ make linux26-menuconfig

Device Drivers  --->
    Input device support  --->
        [*]   Miscellaneous devices  --->
            <M>   User level driver support

$ make linux26 && make

• add cwiid package to Buildroot:

$ make menuconfig

Package Selection for the target  --->
    Hardware handling / blockdevices and filesystem maintenance  --->
        [*]   cwiid

$ make

• reflash your rootfs

Usage

• First, be sure that your Bluetooth interface is up and running
• load uinput driver:

# modprobe uinput

• search for your wiimote:

# lswm
Put Wiimotes in discoverable mode now (press 1+2)...
00:18:00:10:20:8C

• use it:

# wminput
input: Nintendo Wiimote as /devices/virtual/input/input2
Put Wiimote in discoverable mode now (press 1+2)...
Bluetooth: L2CAP ver 2.11
Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
Ready.

# wmdemo

Links

• https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CWiiD or http://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/wiimote (french)