Zeemote JS1

I bought myself a Zeemote JS1 as a bluetooth gamecontroller for my Android phone first hand, but I figuered out, I can use it as a simple presentation remote for my laptop also, so here are the steps with linux (openSUSE).

First I tried to use it with standard bluetooth functions, but there are no know HID protocols supported by the device. Pairing alone works.

Make sure you have the devel packages for bluez installed (suse: bluez-devel). You need it to build a gamedevice driver.

Download http://www.harbaum.org/till/maemo/zeemoted.tgz untar and compile it with

wget http://www.harbaum.org/till/maemo/zeemoted.tgz
tar xvzf zeemoted.tgz 
cd zeemoted-1.0/
make
sudo make install
sudo modprobe uinput
zeemoted

I also have to start zeemoted as root, but I don't know if that is by design or not. Put the Zeemote on and wait for the connection.

Now you can configure it as a Gamepad with your desktop gui like systemsettings of KDE (input devices).

I still cannot control my presentation, most pdf viewers work with right, left or the page up/down controlls, so I have to map this keys to the gamepad buttons. What I wanted to do, is use the mouse with stick, put 2 of the 4 buttons as mouse buttons, and the other ones as left and right to switch between slides. A nice tool for that is QJoypad. Rather that building that tool by hand, I used http://software.opensuse.org/search and was lucky to find a matching rpm file.

Configuring is rather self-telling and with qjoypad in background, everything works like expected. You can also define more than one presets, and with one click switch between different layout mappings. So it should be work with your video or audio player, too.

Beside the pairing and using it in recoqnized games as „Zeemote“ controller, I try to figure out how to use it in every game instead of mouse, keyboard or touch controls……later.