Control XMMS using your Wiimote

Here’s a nice little hack for all of the people who somehow got Wiimotes for Christmas but no Wii console. A guy by the name of Walter Schreppers has managed to hack his Wiimote and turn it into a remote for his XMMS mp3 player. Check out the video up top to see it in action.

Controls:

Up: previous song in playlist
Down: next song in playlist
Left: reverse song
Right: forward song

A: Toggle Shuffle
B: Toggle play/pause

1: Left mouse button -> yes pointing also works if you make a sensor bar with some plain IR-leds
2: Right mouse button

Home: exit xmms-wii application

And the best part: shake the remote!
Shake a little bit and it skips to next song. Shake it a lot and it skips more songs at a time.

If you have an extra Wiimote lying around and wanna try this hack for yourself, just give the download links below a click. Remember guys, this is for Linux. To get it working in Ubuntu Linux, you’ll also need to download the WMD driver below.

Download: [Wii-XMMS control]
Download: [WMD driver 0.1.2]