N770 To Control A PC?

[Durrty Boi]

anyone know if it's possible to use the N770 using bluetooth or wifi to control a PC like a keyboard and mouse?

using a touch screen keyboard and the buttons on the side as a mouse?

i havent got an N770 bu this is the reason i want one, because i have 3 PCs in different rooms and dont want 3 different ses of keyboards and mice as 2 of them are used just to watch films and such.

i don want it to just control media applications, i would prefer if it would function like a full keyboard and mouse

anyone know of such an application??

also would battery life be a problem using such an application?

if no such thing is available on he N770 and someone knows what iom talkin about, could you please direct me to something that does the job.

thanks

[oosnapdood]

well there is the VNC proggy for maemo which basically lets u control anything on ur desktop from anywhere u have a wifi connection (assuming ur running a vnc hot on ur pc)

[SeRi@lDiE]

or you can use rdesktop wich basically lets you have your win desktop in your ITT

[Milhouse]

You mean like this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1nS9kOtA7A)? :)

RDesktop or VNC.

[Durrty Boi]

You mean like this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1nS9kOtA7A)? :)

RDesktop or VNC.

not exactly, although i would love to know how to do that seeing as im not a linux user and most of my stuff is done with PCs


but i want basically the whole screen to be a keyboard that i use to as an input device, wireless on a PC. like a wireless keyboard with the d pad or whatever it is acting like a mouse

[Milhouse]

not exactly, although i would love to know how to do that seeing as im not a linux user and most of my stuff is done with PCs


Errr... install RDesktop (Remote Desktop) or VNC on your 770. :) Windows XP comes with Remote Desktop server built in, so you would just install RDesktop on your 770 and establish a connection to your PC. VNC is cross platform so allows you to remotely control Windows, Linux, and MAC computers, plus other Internet Tablets as long as the remote device has VNC server installed and you have VNC client installed on your 770.


but i want basically the whole screen to be a keyboard that i use to as an input device, wireless on a PC. like a wireless keyboard with the d pad or whatever it is acting like a mouse

You could probably do something like that with either RDesktop or VNC, using the finger keyboard on the 770. Not very elegant though, but then I'm not sure what other choice you have.

[Durrty Boi]

Ok that sounds good

thanks

[Durrty Boi]

any other solutions?

id really like the keyboard thing as id be using window slive messenger from time to time.

does the 770 need to recognised as an input device for me to do that?

[SeRi@lDiE]

Is this what you want?
http://maemo.org/downloads/product/xkbd-bthid

[Durrty Boi]

yes that

but there no file for it on the site?

[Durrty Boi]

found it

http://www.mulliner.org/nokia770/feed/fotos/n770_xkbdbthid_02.png

http://www.mulliner.org/nokia770/
thanks for the help

[SeRi@lDiE]

click on the home page d00d...

http://www.mulliner.org/nokia770/

[SeRi@lDiE]

oo ok you beat me to it ;)

[qingdom]

yes that

but there no file for it on the site?
xkbdbthid_0.1-1_arm.deb xkbd-bthid see screenshot and a much nicer one is here (Maemo2.0 xkbdbthid_0.1-1_armel.deb, Maemo 3.0/Bora/N800 xkbdbthid_0.1-2_armel.deb)

This is a software Bluetooth keyboard it turns your Nokia770 into a Bluetooth HID keyboard. Full details at the xkbdbthid site.

Install notes:
1) install the package via the package manager
2) open xterm
3) become root
4) chown root.root /var/lib/install/usr/bin/xkbdbthidwrapper (/usr/bin/xkbdbthidwrapper on IT2006)
5) chmod +s /var/lib/install/usr/bin/xkbdbthidwrapper

This is required since the package manager can't do this for us, why not?

It's the fifth software down from where 'Software' section starts on the home page: http://www.mulliner.org/nokia770/ . Works fine for the most part... The GUI could use a little spicing up, but this is as simple as the keyboard can get with this little package.