[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] bluetooth keyboard

[From: Tomas Junnonen]

On 11/23/05, Bernhard Baase <bernhard.baase at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I've bought a bluetooth keyboard from b-speech.com. It's the same as the
> 'smart keyboard'&'freedom keyboard'.. Unluckily its not the nokia one and it
> doesn' work with my 770 and the plugin. Can someone tell me if it is easy to
> adjust the driver. Has anyone got another bt-keyboard running with the 770
> or any other information concerning this topic.


I have tested the 770 successfully with the following keyboards:
- Nokia SU-8W, works fine.
- I-Tech Virtual Laser Keyboard, a projection keyboard that looks really
cool but doesn't work that well in practice. The keyboard requires pairing
which can be done from a command line.
- Think Outside Stowaway, my favorite of the three, works reliably and has a
great feel to it.

As Frantisek wrote, for a keyboard to work with the 770 the device must
support the HID profile. It is a good sign if the keyboard is advertised as
being usable with a desktop OS, as that often means full HID support. The
Smart keyboard is unfortunately not such a device. However, the kbdd program
(http://handhelds.org/moin/moin.cgi/kbdd) mentions supporting your keyboard,
and I can't think of any immediate reasons why this would not work on the
770 with a bit of hacking.

On a related note, I hope to provide a UI for pairing Bluetooth keyboards to
the 770 with the next version of the plugin.

Regards,
Tomas
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://lists.maemo.org/pipermail/maemo-developers/attachments/20051123/2810dc2b/attachment.htm