November 10, 2009   iPhone Apps, Video

Found Footage: The iPhone and the WiiMote

Matthias Ringwald, of iPhone Bluetooth fame, has just released BTstack 0.1 for iPhone. This video demonstrates his group’s technology in action, as an iPhone syncs with a WiiMote and then uses the WiiMote for input. Although the system does not yet have OBEX, it is, as Ringwald writes, “better than Apple’s nothing.”

I haven’t had a chance to give the software a spin yet (you can download the source from Google Code) but I’m looking forward to playing. BTstack creates device connections using the L2CAP protocol. The code is currently aimed at jailbroken devices only. It supplies a Bluetooth daemon (BTdaemon) that you access from your apps. Given that the release is still only at version 0.1, expect a certain degree of instability and a lot of further development potential.
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  • StephenLawdx

    Actually I have found that I already had BTstack installed as it installs automatically when you download the emulator…The game boy emulator I have got has wiimote compatabillity but it won’t connect..I don’t know where I’m going wrong here

  • StephenLawdx

    Do you know which version of btstack I need to download to use my wii controler with my gameboy colour emulator? I have seen many videos doing this but when I search BTstack in cydia there are multiple results eg. Mouse, keyboard ect..Please help!