Hi list, I recently bought a bluetooth keyboard that is not HID (I didn't even know there was such a think. I thought all of them used the HID protocol). Then I read on the wiki that http://www.handhelds.org/moin/moin.cgi/kbdd kbdd could be useful for this, but didn't find anyone saying it works.
I have tried it and it works for me, so I'll let you know what I did in case someone else wants to use this non standard keyboards. Mine is a http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.6443 MSI bk100 (you can find it cheap on ebay) but I think it should work with others as well, as kbdd support several keyboards. 1. I found an ipkg package for kbdd in angstrom so I used it instead of compiling the source. ~#opkg install http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/feeds/2008/ipk/glibc/armv4t/base/kbdd_0.12+svn20061019-r0.1_armv4t.ipk 2. Get the address of the keyboard ~#hcitool scan Scanning ... 00:0F:F6:00:D9:05 BT-FoldableKB 3. Use rfcomm to bind the keyboard ~#rfcomm bind 0 00:0F:F6:00:D9:05 4. Load uinput module ~#modprobe uinput 5. Run passkey-agent in the background ~#passkey-agent 0000 00:0F:F6:00:D9:05 6. Run kbdd in the background (you can specify a different type of keyboard with the -t option, mine works well with btfoldable) ~#kbdd -p /dev/rfcomm0 -t btfoldable & And that's all, you should be able to use your keyboard. I also attach a small script I wrote to connect and disconnect the keyboard, it have to be modified to suit your keyboard. An icon on the desktop to run it is very handy, you just press the connect key of your keyboard and click it to connect, and click it again when you want to disconnect the keyboard. #!/bin/sh # Change this to suit your keyboard. KBADDRESS=00:11:22:33:44:55 KBPIN=0000 KBTYPE=btfoldable RFCOMMPORT=0 KBDDPID=`pidof kbdd` if [ -z "$KBDDPID" ] ; then modprobe uinput rfcomm bind $RFCOMMPORT $KBADDRESS passkey-agent $KBPIN $KBADDRESS & kbdd -p /dev/rfcomm$RFCOMMPORT -t $KBTYPE & else kill $KBDDPID PKAGENTID=`pidof passkey-agent` if [ ! -z "$PKAGENTID" ] ; then kill $PKAGENTID fi rfcomm release $RFCOMMPORT rmmod uinput fi Hope it helps someone. P.S. Make sure bluetooth is enabled, otherwise nothing of this is going to work ;) -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/Non-HID-Bluetooth-keyboard.-Success%21-tp1496389p1496389.html Sent from the Openmoko Community mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
