Raspberry Pi: How to get Bluetooth keyboard work

I have Prodige NanoX small bluetooth keyboard and touchpad which I wanted to use with my Raspberry Pi so here is how I get it to work:

After we have plugged in our bluetooth receiver we should see it with lsusb:

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Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0a12:0001 Cambridge Silicon Radio, Ltd Bluetooth Dong0le (HCI mode)<br />

If that’s ok then we can enable dbus and reboot after that:

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update-rc.d -f dbus defaults<br />

After reboot we log in as a root and then we need to install bluetooth software:

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apt-get install bluetooth bluez-utils blueman<br />

After we have installed all the stuff we have to reboot again and after reboot log in as a root again.

Next we have to do a scan for bluetooth devices which are in discovery mode so we can see those:

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hcitool scan<br />

If you didn’t see your keyboard on that list you have to put it to discoverable (Prodige NanoX keyboard you have to push bluetooth button for a few seconds).

And here we can see my keyboard:

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        11:22:33:44:55:66       Macro Keyboard<br />

And now we can copy/paste that MAC address 11:22:33:44:55:66 to clipboard because we are going to need it next.

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bluez-simple-agent hci0 11:22:33:44:55:66<br />

And after that you need to give PIN code:

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root@raspberrypi:~# bluez-simple-agent hci0 11:22:33:44:55:66<br />
RequestPinCode (/org/bluez/5695/hci0/dev_11:22:33:44:55:66)<br />
Enter PIN Code: 0000<br />

And after giving that 0000 press enter and next give that same PIN on your bluetooh keyboard and press enter there too.

Next we have to make our keyboard as a trusted bluetooth device:

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bluez-test-device trusted 11:22:33:44:55:66 yes<br />

After that we can test our bluetooth keyboard:

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bluez-test-input connect 11:22:33:44:55:66<br />

If everything went OK we should now have working bluetooth keyboard.

I had Prodige NanoX but it is pretty much the same keyboard as:

– Prodige NanoX Bluetooth
– VisionTek CANDYBOARD Bluetooth Wireless Mini Keyboard with Touchpad
– Rii Mini Wireless Keyboard
– Chill Innovation KB-1BT
– Rii Mini Elegance
– Diamond design Dune Keyboard

so if you have any of those you could try same what I did.