Got me wiimote working on the EEE 1000H

Posting from the EEE so will keep it short

took me all day I had to hack the daylights out of the inf files and uninstall and reinstall several things, but looks like its working so I have a good game controller for on the go now to play my emulators with or say control winamp.

I think I am the first person with the wiimote working on the EEE as I can not find anybody else who has done it or any sources on google.

Once I know for sure how to recreate it I will post a tutorial and show some practical uses.

edit: oh and for now on its officially called my eeemote

 

Nice work!
So do you actually use the wiimote as a substitute for a mouse?

 

In for tutorial.

 

You could but I wouldn't. The touchpad is really good especially since it has so many gestures with the newest drivers. Plus the best wiimote mouse script is the one that uses the IR so you point at the screen and that means needing a sensor bar or some other source of IR light as well.

 

WOW thats amazing you deserve a award for the vicious, thumbs up!

 

If anybody else has a 1000H and a Wiimote and wants to do this let me know so I can walk you thru the steps to confirm. I did so many things I need to know just the ones that needed to be done for this to work.

It may be as little as just installing bluesoleil and modifying the inf to include the pid and vid of the BT-253 in the EEE. I tried that and it did not work the first time, but the 2nd time it did and I modified the .inf slightly differently, but that was also after I had uninstalled the broadcom software and downloaded it off the asus site (and that also fixed the problem where I could not skip pairing code with the broadcom/microsoft drivers)

So those are the 2 main things, small is that I used a generic bluetooth enumerator driver when I finally got bluesoleil to detect the card and work.

I want to toss up a little video of it in action later, I have a good winamp script I made a while back that uses just about every wiimote function to do something.

Examples:

Hold the "z" trigger in the back and roll the controller to the right and it will fast foward, roll the controller further and it will super fast foward (makes use of combo keys & the roll function of the controller) Does the same for reverse.

Flick the controller quickly to the right, changes to next track (makes use of the accelerometer)

Hold "Z" and tilt the controller up raise the volume and makes the controller vibrate (Y tilt function)

A button stops/starts the visulization

+/- control the winamp volume

Dpad left/right is track forward/back

home key is pause

I use this at work every night so when the phone rings I can pause quickly and swich tracks easy.

 

dude, that is epic

 

I just did the whole thing again from scratch to make sure my method works. So now I know 100% that it works and will start to cook up a guide of sorts.

 

Will your method work with the 901 ?

 

Under windows it should, same BT card I would think.

 

Just out of curiousity, did you ever manage to get the wiimote working on your G50?