I searched the forum but currently didn't find anything that made me any smarter, so I start a new topic. I got a Rasberry Pi 2 running RasPlex 0.6.0 with an iPazzPort Pro Mini Bluetooth Mini Wireless Keyboard which does not work.
I enabled Bluetooth in the Services Menu and paired the device without problems. I can see output from btmon, but RasPlex does not seem to do anything with the input signals. Any ideas? Do I have to "enable" the keyboard somehow?
Details:
lsusb
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 0a12:0001 Cambridge Silicon Radio, Ltd Bluetooth Dongle (HCI mode)
For what its worth I cannot get any bluetooth keyboards to work. I have tried the Apple BT keyboard and a Logitec K480. When I type in the code to pair the K480 the wrong numbers appear. Let me know if you get it to work.
You have to use the adapter that come with it afaik. Which means you dont actually configure anything as the system recognizes it as physical keyboard.
@MACscr It seems as if this is a real bluetooth HID device and nothing that emulates a physical keyboard. It needs to be paired and stuff. I have an Lenovo wireless keyboard as well which works the way you described (at least on my laptop), but this device is different.
Bluetooth keyboards seem to be problematic for most people. I’ve only tried one myself, and while it did pair and work for a little while, the pairing did not hold over multiple boot sessions, or powercycling of the keyboard. (Whenever keyboard contact was lost, I had to pair again.) So I gave up on using Bluetooth.
NB: This was several RasPlex versions ago, so things may have improved a bit, though current posts don’t imply it.
The best advice I can give those who haven’t yet purchased a bluetooth keyboard for the RPi is that they should instead look for a similar non-bluetooth wireless keyboard, connecting through a non-bluetooth USB dongle specific to that keyboard. This way no pairing is necessary and RasPlex (or other computers you use it with) will see the keyboard exactly as if it was connected directly by USB cable.
Such keyboards are what I’ve used for all RPi units I’ve set up (for myself and others) and still use today.
There are some very neat such miniature USB keyboards around, some of which are specially designed for use in controlling media players.
My favourite is even smaller than most TV remotes, with a simple DPad navigation and air-mouse button set on one side, and a full ascii keyboard on the other, with a gravity sensor ensuring that the current bottom side of the unit is deactivated (so you can put it on a table or armrest and still push the topside buttons without any effects from the bottom side).
@dlanor said:
Bluetooth keyboards seem to be problematic for most people. I’ve only tried one myself, and while it did pair and work for a little while, the pairing did not hold over multiple boot sessions, or powercycling of the keyboard. (Whenever keyboard contact was lost, I had to pair again.) So I gave up on using Bluetooth.
NB: This was several RasPlex versions ago, so things may have improved a bit, though current posts don’t imply it.
The best advice I can give those who haven’t yet purchased a bluetooth keyboard for the RPi is that they should instead look for a similar non-bluetooth wireless keyboard, connecting through a non-bluetooth USB dongle specific to that keyboard. This way no pairing is necessary and RasPlex (or other computers you use it with) will see the keyboard exactly as if it was connected directly by USB cable.
Such keyboards are what I’ve used for all RPi units I’ve set up (for myself and others) and still use today.
There are some very neat such miniature USB keyboards around, some of which are specially designed for use in controlling media players.
My favourite is even smaller than most TV remotes, with a simple DPad navigation and air-mouse button set on one side, and a full ascii keyboard on the other, with a gravity sensor ensuring that the current bottom side of the unit is deactivated (so you can put it on a table or armrest and still push the topside buttons without any effects from the bottom side).
Best regards: dlanor
I really like the design and simplicity of that remote you pictured. Please tell me the brand and model. I’ve seen a few others while searching online but they are a bit more cluttered than the one you have pictured.
I have the exact same remote working out of the box with zero configuration with my rasplex and using the supplied usb dongle that came inside the remote. I did not configure anything in rasxplex for it to work.
@MACscr said:
I have the exact same remote working out of the box with zero configuration with my rasplex and using the supplied usb dongle that came inside the remote. I did not configure anything in rasxplex for it to work.
Is yours definitely a Bluetooth keyboard, if so, can you please post the steps you took to get this working to help others. Sharing is what Rasplex is about.
@NedtheNerd:
Since @MACscr said that he didn’t configure anything to get it to work with RasPlex I suspect that he’s not talking about a bluetooth keyboard (like the original poster did), as these always require some pairing process.
Perhaps @MACscr recognized the USB remote keyboard I use (from the pictures I posted) as identical to his own, as these keyboards always work fine without any configuration, with any hardware/software compatible to normal USB keyboards.
Edit:
I just checked some of the earlier posts and found that in one of these @MACscr spoke of using a USB dongle instead of Bluetooth for a logitech keyboard that apparently had the ability to use either method.
(Which is weird, as the specs for the keyboard discussed include ONLY a bluetooth interface, no dongle)
