Wiimote Music Controls is a brand new and free application for jailbroken iPhone’s and iPod Touch’s. It uses BTStack and SpringBoardAccess, so you’ll need to install those two packages before attempting to install this. This essentially allows you to control your iPod’s music using any Wiimote via bluetooth.

Now, this isn’t the first application that takes advantage of a Wiimote. A couple of ZodTTD’s (god forbid that guy…) emulators take advantage of BTStack and allows for the Wiimote to control various games.

I had a little trouble installing this from Cydia (even though BTStack and SpringBoardAccess was already installed, it kept having dependency issues with BTStack), so I had to install the deb manually (downloaded the deb, extracted the files, then transfered the app to /Applications). All the actual Wiimote Music Control package is is a small application.

So anyway, the application is simple. Run it, it enables BTStack, and it looks for Wiimotes. Press the 1 and 2 keys on your Wiimote at the same time so that it can enter pairing mode. Once it query’s the name of the Wiimote, it will automatically connect to it and allow you to control music playback.

The controls are simple, and are shown to you by tapping the ‘i‘ in the lower-right. The left and right arrow keys goes to the next or previous track. A pauses/plays music. The – and + buttons lowers or raises the volume.

This is just really cool. Imagine hosting some sort of party, and you have your iPhone or iPod Touch connected to your speaker system. You want to raise the volume, but can’t find a remote that already works, or you can’t actually get to your iPhone to change the volume. Just carry your Wiimote with you, and boom. You’ve just changed the volume from far away, and you’ve impressed all of your friends!