Wii Remotes

Introduction

From version 0.5 you can use your Wii Remote as a remote control for Clementine.

This guide explains how to install and configure Wiimotedev to let Clementine see your Wii Remote. Your computer will need to be able to use Bluetooth - either through a builtin transmitter (eg. in a laptop) or using a USB Bluetooth dongle.

For now this guide only works on Linux.

Details

• Download the latest stable version of wiimotedev-daemon
• Extract the tarball and compile and install wiimotedev. Swap ubuntu below for your distro: either debian, gentoo, slackware, or ubuntu. Swap

    tar -xvf wiimotedev-project-1.4.4.tar.xz
    cd wiimotedev-project/
    cmake . -DDISTRO=ubuntu -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr
    make
    sudo make install

• Start wiimotedev-daemon:

    sudo /etc/init.d/wiimotedev-daemon start

• Now you need to find the Bluetooth MAC address of your Wii Remote. Watch the system log file by running:

    tail -f /var/log/messages

Now simultaneously press the 1 and 2 buttons on your Wii Remote. You should see a message in the log that looks like: wiimotedev: wiiremote 00:19:1D:A8:E0:FB is unregistred, disconnected The number 00:19:1D:A8:E0:FB is the MAC address of your Wii Remote.

• Open the file /etc/wiimotedev/wiimotedev.conf in an editor. You need to add the MAC address that you just discovered to the [sequence] section at the bottom of the file, like so:

    [sequence]
    00:19:1D:A8:E0:FB=1

• Save the file and restart wiimotedev-daemon:

    sudo /etc/init.d/wiimotedev-daemon reload

• You should now be able to use your Wii Remote from inside Clementine! Open the Preferences dialog by clicking Tools and Preferences..., and click on the Wiimotedev tab.