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Hooking up your xbox360 wireless controller to XBMC Live 9.04

August 1st, 2009 7 comments

I love my XBMC, this media center plays any kind of media file without any hassle. But recently my old xbox gave up on me, so I was forced to upgrade to a new Media Center setup :( .

I did not want to buy a new OS to run my new hardware so I decided to try the linux version of XBMC. After consideration I went for XBMC Live since my experience in linux is pretty basic, and I wanted everything “just to work”.

Running the Live CD was pretty straigtforward. After a few minutes my new media-center was installed on the hard drive. Everything worked flawlesly, except for my xbox 360 wireless controller. Since XBMC is beïng run from your couch, a wireless controller is pretty much a big requirement.

This tutorial describes the stepts I went trough to setup an “Xbox 360 Wireless Controller” on my XBMC Live from a Windows based machine.

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