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Re: N900 Bluetooth Keyboard + Mouse scripts

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Originally Posted by freemangordon (Post 807717)

Most probably you need fixed bluetooth driver, search this thread and also look here

Now ...

Thank you very much.

This community is wonderful.

Re: N900 Bluetooth Keyboard + Mouse scripts

Attila: here is the post where I post my log. A couple of posts later I told smoku, "The errors that I posted are after setting PYTHONHOME and PYTHONPATH. It was even worse before I did that."

It sounds like you and I are in a very similar situation. Hopefully I get "real" Internet next week.

I highly recommend my BT keyboard from DealExtreme. The funny thing is that I bought it from Hong Kong and it says, "Designed in Canada"! It isn't quite as nice a layout as my old Stowaway, since it doesn't even have a number row, but it is very very small.

Re: N900 Bluetooth Keyboard + Mouse scripts

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Originally Posted by attila77 (Post 807665)

(and if I loose access to google translate or Ovi maps, I'm done for :) ).

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Originally Posted by qole (Post 807996)

It sounds like you and I are in a very similar situation. Hopefully I get "real" Internet next week.

I understand there are some differences between Canadian English and the 'other' variants, but has it gotten so bad recently that you actually need google translate ? :D

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I highly recommend my BT keyboard from DealExtreme. The funny thing is that I bought it from Hong Kong and it says, "Designed in Canada"! It isn't quite as nice a layout as my old Stowaway, since it doesn't even have a number row, but it is very very small.

IIRC the Apple one states Designed in California (not sure what kind of emotions that should instill, but that might be some cultural gap thing).

Re: N900 Bluetooth Keyboard + Mouse scripts

@qole
Exactly which BT keyboard do you use ? Dealextreme has about 30 of them. And my previous buy from them, a BT mouse, is not really successful on my N900. So I rather go for a fully working combo now.

Re: N900 Bluetooth Keyboard + Mouse scripts

Netweaver, I linked to the page for the keyboard.

Re: N900 Bluetooth Keyboard + Mouse scripts

yep, sorry, trying to follow too many threads at the same time made me miss some, I guess.
I bought the same combo now, I hope to be a happy user as well.

Thanks for all the work getting the whole solution as smooth as possible.

Re: N900 Bluetooth Keyboard + Mouse scripts

I have my BT Apple Keyboard and my mouse working.

I have the problem that a colleague has a Zaapa Keyboard with SPP profile. I have the drivers and uses kbdd btfolder, but has the following problem: your keyboard connects and disconnects the second, while kbdd set.

Can you guide me to help?

Thank you all.

Re: N900 Bluetooth Keyboard + Mouse scripts

Another question ...

Has anyone managed to bring their laptop keyboards can use another language for the layer that is not "us"? It's just that I always fails.

Re: N900 Bluetooth Keyboard + Mouse scripts

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Originally Posted by qole (Post 748454)

Hi all,

THIS IS ALPHA QUALITY ONLY! IT ISN'T SAFE! BACK UP BEFORE INSTALLING! DISABLE EXTRAS-DEVEL AFTER INSTALLING!

I have taken stuff from the How to get bluetooth pc105 keyboards to work with N900 and N900 Working Bluetooth Mouse and I have made a package that gets Bluetooth keyboards and mice (Human Input Devices or "HID") working with the N900.

You need to enable Extras-devel (Dangerous and advanced! Be careful with this!) You can install it from the System category in the App Manager, or as bt-hid-scripts from apt-get.

UPDATE Version 0.8:

So the procedure now is:

1. Pair your devices with the N900 via the Bluetooth menu.
2. Use the "BT HID Connect" icon to connect your devices properly (this will make the BT logo stay blue, the mouse and keyboard will work, incompletely)
3. Make sure your devices are disconnected, then start the "BT HID Watcher" icon to auto-configure your N900 when the devices connect.
4. Turn on your device, press a key on the keyboard, wiggle the mouse, or whatever you need to do to initiate connection, and then watch for the yellow banner on the N900 saying that you're connected. The mouse pointer should become visible for a mouse, and the keyboard should have numbers and special characters properly mapped.

Note that you may need to open the N900 keyboard and press a key to get the external keyboard working properly, and the mouse pointer is not properly visible or operational in the browser.

These scripts work very well with the Microsoft Bluetooth Notebook Mouse 5000 and the Micro Innovations folding BT keyboard (MP-0118) from DealExtreme.

Older Versions:

The main script at the moment is the BT HID Connect script (bt-dbus-connect) and icon. This script connects BT devices that seem to pair (the N900 claims the device is paired) but then don't actually connect (the BT icon on the N900 stays white). This worked to connect both my Think Outside Stowaway Keyboard and Microsoft Bluetooth Notebook Mouse 5000. You have to pair the device first and then click on the BT HID Connect icon. Choose your device from the list and it should start connecting after that.

I have another script, set-bt-input, run as root, which can turn the BT input profile on or off. It is turned on upon install.

I have also most of the pieces to make BT keyboards and mice actually work once they are connected.

Keyboard

I have included qobi's xkb-chinook hack to remap external keyboards so the numbers and special characters work. Run the bt-kbd-remap script to make the keyboard work properly with both Maemo and Easy Debian LXDE.

To set your keyboard layout, create or edit a file in your home directory (it will be created for you the first time you run bt-kbd-remap):

/home/user/.btkeyboard

Code:

KBDRULES=base

KBDMODEL=pc105

KBDLAYOUT=us

Change those three lines to match your keyboard.

The script needs to be run every time the keyboard reconnects, even after waking up from sleep. I still need to get a script set up to check for keyboard connection and run the remap script when it connects.

Mouse

I have included azerty1's fixed mouse driver (evdev_drv.so) so if your mouse can connect, it will probably work. It should just work with Easy Debian LXDE (where it is most useful).

If you want to try the mouse with Maemo, I've included azerty1's showmouse and hidemouse scripts for making the mouse pointer visible in Maemo. You have to run them from the terminal or make your own icons for those.

TO DO:

Make a device connection detector that runs the keyboard remap script if a keyboard connects or the visible mouse script if the mouse connects. If the mouse disconnects, run the hidemouse script.
Have someone package the patched mouse driver, and then depend on that package. I can't move my package out of Extras-devel with azerty1's binary embedded in my package.
Have someone package freemangordon's bluetooth module patches. Titan's kernel (or an extra modules package) should come with the patched module, and there should be a package for the standard kernel too.
Fix all the bugs you will find!

I installed your scripts with no problems. I have the Think Outside keyboard which is recognized when trying to pair. It never seems to successfully pair. I went into terminal and ran bt-dbus-connect and selected the keyboard and hit ok: I uploaded the screenshot error that it gave me. Do you have any clues what this means?

Re: N900 Bluetooth Keyboard + Mouse scripts

Hello All!

I'm new here, but I have problems with my bluetooth keyboard/mouth and can not find right answers.. Here are the problems:

1. Keyboard connects and I can type and use mouse somehow, but after 5-10 secs of using N900 reboots :(

2. Not alll keys work, numbers and symbols don't work, arrows don't work, Shift doesn't work :(

3. I can not changer layout to "russian" (ru?), so russian letters don't work.

Does anybody could help, I really appreciate it!