apple bluetooth keyboard

Iain Hibbert plunky at rya-online.net
Tue Mar 7 12:05:30 PST 2006


On Tue, 7 Mar 2006, Maksim Yevmenkin wrote:

> i now own apple bluetooth keyboard. i had a minute to spare and tried
> bthidd(8) and bthidcontrol(8) with the most recent changes by Markus Brueffer.
>
> i'm very pleased to say that apple bluetooth keyboards almost works. in fact,
> i'm typing this email using apple bluetooth keyboard.

Max, this is excellent news because mine arrived friday and I am about to
start working on HID support for NetBSD. Mostly this means porting bthidd
and bthidcontrol though we have wscons/wsmux here which I hope means I can
inject events already.

> another minor issue, which has nothing to do with, bthidd(8) or
> bthidcontrol(8), is pairing procedure. it is not very user friendly, because
> there is no indication as to when user should type pin code on the keyboard.
> this can be addresses by teaching hcsecd(8) to use external processes to
> obtain pin codes. hcsecd(8) could call external process that will display
> dialog to the user and request pin code.

How do bluez/linux manage this? I have seen mention of a 'bluepin'
application but have no idea how it works..

iain


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