Control XBMC with a wiimote

[jaheaga]

EDIT: Does not work with latest release Beta 1.1

Hello everybody, as the instructions provided by Koenkk does not work anymore due to the 404 error downloading the package xbian-package-wiiremote0.9.deb, I manage to get my own wiimote work on my XBian 1.0 Alpha 5.
This is how I did it with help from here

ssh to your device

Code:

sudo su           #default password = raspberry
apt-get update
apt-get install bluez python-cwiid xbmc-eventclients-common
cd /usr/local/bin
wget https://raw.github.com/paulvt/xbmc-wiimote/master/xbmc-wiimote
chmod +x xbmc-wiimote

nano /home/xbian/wiimote.sh

Code:

#!/sbin/sh  
/etc/init.d/bluetooth restart  
sleep 2  
cd /usr/local/bin
xbmc-wiimote -b 00:00:00:00:00:00 -t 7200

Code:

chmod +x /home/xbian/wiimote.sh  
nano /etc/rc.local

then when you are editing rc.local you have to add this lines before "exit 0" changing 00:00:00... for the mac of your wiimote if you dont know it, on any other linux execute this comand "hcitool scan"

Code:

/home/xbian/wiimote.sh &

then I make a cron job to restart bluetooth service each 5 minutes because after a while the wiimote doesn't connect properly

Code:

crontab -e

Code:

*/5 * * * * /etc/init.d/bluetooth restart

the 7200 means 2 hours but you can change it to whatever number you want, the default is 120 but that just wasn't enough for me.

I did a lot of research with openelec (didn't work the wiimote) and raspbmc (the wiimote works but the system is really slow)

Saludos

Jaheaga

EDIT. The rc.local script I change it , because it disconnects ramdomly and then don't connect anymore, also add a cron job to restart the bluetooth service, also noticed that 5 minutes is not the same as 2 hours, well you can configure it wherever you want