[raspberry-vi] Re: Bluetooth Powering On
- From: Mobeen Iqbal <mobeeniqbal@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: raspberry-vi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2014 23:25:54 +0000
hi rill. this is excellent news! i will need to buy a bluetooth keyboard
soon for portability. my current freedom bluetooth keyboard refuses to
charge!
Mo.
On 08/01/2014 22:18, Rill wrote:
> I can report success with pairing a bluetooth keyboard and using it on
> start up.
>
> Getting it to work after my post yesterday is one of two things or both.
>
> 1. I trusted the device.
>
> 2. I became a little more patient.
>
> With my usb keyboard, when I hear the log in prompt, I can just log in.
> With the bluetooth keyboard, I have to hit enter several times before I
> receive the prompt again. Then I can log in.
>
> I'm using a hype ultra-slim. So far I've discovered the escape key is
> the usual place for escape plus the fn key. Unfortunately, I don't know
> anyone who can read all the symbols and put meaningful words around them
> for the special keys.
>
> I now have a really mobile pi if all the key combinations I need to do
> in emacspeak work.
>
> Rill
> On 1/7/2014 10:37 PM, Rill wrote:
>> Several months ago I was trying to use bluetooth on the pi. I made
>> some progress but not enough to make it useable.
>> Today I picked up a bluetooth keyboard and tried again. Happily the
>> ArchLinux bluetooth wiki page has been updated for bluez 5. I can
>> connect and use the keyboard.
>> Here's the problem: I need to have the bluetooth controller powered
>> on at start up and be able to use the keyboard to log in for there to
>> be any reason to use a bluetooth keyboard on the pi.
>> The wiki article has me create a 10-local.rules file which I did, but
>> it doesn't seem to work. Does anybody know anything about how to
>> troubleshoot this?
>> The line to add to /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules is:
>> ACTION=="add", KERNEL="hci0", RUN+="/usr/bin/hciconfig hci0 up"
>> I'm not sure how powering up bluetooth by itself connects my keyboard.
>> Rill
>>
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