Wiican – Easy Wii remote control on Ubuntu Linux
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Actually WiiCan it's a sytem tray icon, programmed in python. It connects to bluez and hal via dbus for tracking the available bluetooth devices and wiimote connection status.
On backend it's wminput , the cwiid event driver for wiimote. WiiCan uses wminput and wminput configuration files for define and use mappers.
Wiican Features
Discover if it's an available bluetooth device for connect wiimote
Display a list of available keyboard-mouse-wiimote mappings
User-defined mappings creation assistant
Mappings manager:
New/Edit/Delete
Up/Down order
Visible/Invisible
Notify the state of wiimote usaging:
Bluetooth available/unavailable
Discovering wiimote
Wiimote disconnected
Install wiican in Ubuntu karmic
Run the following commands from your terminal
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:fontanon/wiican
Update source list
sudo apt-get update
Install willcan
sudo apt-get install wiican
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What are your favorite ways to use this? I have a bunch of wiimotes, but haven’t felt a need to pair them with my computer.
Would be nice to use a wiimote as a mouse…point and click, ya’ll…
Isn’t Hal deprecated?
I think you need an ir bar to be able to point and click like a mouse.
Instead of an infra red bar, you can just go low-tech to test the wiimote by placing two candles or tealights next to your monitor.
Of course, this is slightly less accurate but you can use your wiimote as a mouse.
You don’t need an ir bar, it will fall back to the accelerometers. As for what to use a wiimote for… I use mine for a game controller (with oh-so-many attachments) for various emulators.
I’m having a hard time getting wiican to work with the sensor bar. I have tried creating a new profile with the Plugin.ir_ptr parameters to no avail. So I suspect it may not be starting wminput using using the ir_ptr flag. Has anyone managed to get wiican to work with the ir pointer?
You can use a Roomba Virtual Wall instead of the ir bar! ;D
can you update the post?
wiican has a new repo
https://launchpad.net/wiican
Umm…where is the package now? This looks great, but these instructions no longer work. I assume it has something to do with dave’s new repo. Just not sure how to install a https repo.
These instructions don’t work.