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Web and Wii control

I am lucky enough to be in possession of the nintendo wii. Its controller is making itself known in all sorts of applications for windows. I am considering how useful this would be for foobar.

There are two routes of action:

1. Control via bluetooth
- your computer needs bluetooth
- the wii does not have to be on but the controller does need to be detected
- bluetooths range lets you use the controller throughout the house

2. Control via wii web browser
- you dont need bluetooth, instead access a local network page served by pc via wii browser
- wii must be on and browser active,
- TV can potentially show album art, title, now playing and controls and possibly even stream so TV outputs audio.

Personally I'd like to use the second option as I dont have bluetooth. What are your thoughts on this idea and which would be the easier to implement?

Does web control already exist for foobar?

Web and Wii control

Reply #1 –
bluetooth dongles can be had for £10+ on ebay

this would give quite good control when you map all the buttons and maybe even have gesture recognition,
e.g. a right swipe for skip next and left swipe for skip back, etc...

Web and Wii control

Reply #2 –
Quote from: FofR on
2. Control via wii web browser
- you dont need bluetooth, instead access a local network page served by pc via wii browser
- wii must be on and browser active,
- TV can potentially show album art, title, now playing and controls and possibly even stream so TV outputs audio.

Personally I'd like to use the second option as I dont have bluetooth. What are your thoughts on this idea and which would be the easier to implement?

Does web control already exist for foobar?


There are a few plugins for web control, but none that advanced.  I also think something like that would be pretty cool.  I'm not sure if the wii's browser will play mp3's natively, so a flash interface might be needed.

These are all of the remote control components: Click

httpserver is probably closest to what we are looking for.  If someone could actually get a full audio center type thing going pretty soon foobar would get extremely popular.  People are crazy over anything Wii related.

Web and Wii control

Reply #3 –
Controlling Foobar via the WII remote via Bluetooth seems damn good.


I feel a bit dumb now but how would you do that? By connecting a BT device to the WII and then let that one connect to the BT device on your PC which then controls foobar?

EDIT: Doh! I just saw that this thread was way old, sorry! Still want to know tho =)