Bluetooth qwerty keyboard

Using Zynthian
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Is it possible to use a Bluetooth qwerty keyboard in Zynthian?
It is much easier than having a wired one. Less wires= more streamlined process.
I’ve read the topic about MIDI over bluetooth and that the RPI has a dedicated bluetooth onboard and that it is disabled in Zynthian because of conflicts with serial 5din MIDI.
If I have a bluetooth USB dongle, would it cause similar issues?
Is there a way to pair bluetooth devices in Zynthian?

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BLEMIDI is planned for Oram. I have been working on it today. It was working but had broken in recent updates. I hope it will be fixed soon. There will not be a need for external Bluetooth adapter for RPi4.

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What about bluetooth qwerty keyboards?

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I’m considering how we might integrate Bluetooth peripherals. It’s not a high priority though.

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Hi @riban,

Was BLE midi fixed?
I get the following message after switching Bluetooth on (and apparently it does not swith off any more… also not with ‘systemctl disable/stop bluetooth’)

Sep 28 13:04:12 zynthian systemd[1]: bluetooth.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 92.
Sep 28 13:04:12 zynthian systemd[1]: Stopped bluetooth.service - Bluetooth service.
Sep 28 13:04:12 zynthian systemd[1]: Started bluetooth.service - Bluetooth service.
Sep 28 13:04:12 zynthian bluetoothd[1778]: Bluetooth daemon 5.76
Sep 28 13:04:12 zynthian bluetoothd[1778]: D-Bus setup failed: Connection “:1.107” is not allowed to own the service “org.bluez” due to security policies in the configuration file
Sep 28 13:04:12 zynthian bluetoothd[1778]: src/main.c:main() Unable to get on D-Bus
Sep 28 13:04:12 zynthian systemd[1]: bluetooth.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Sep 28 13:04:12 zynthian systemd[1]: bluetooth.service: Failed with result ‘exit-code’.

Cheers,

maarten

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@maartmaart please raise a ticket in the issue tracker. It was working the last time I worked on it but haven’t checked recently.

Also, I think HID works now too.