Hello friends, today i was getting my ps3 bluetooth keyboard on the mac mini, and thought about trying it under morphos, as the previous attempts wit the apple wireless weren't successful(even it allow me to press the alt key at boot to get in menu, but then, nothing). The sony keyboard has been impossible to get because if the source of the signal goes down(in the case of the mini, when it reboots) the keyboard goes off and cannot be linked. But then i thought of trying a last time the apple wireless(aluminium) and for my surprise it works!!!. Im writing this post with it. The only thing i can think of is that whe i tried long ago was on a previous version of morphos, and some has been improved in the newer versions. I'm still on 3.0, because of lazyness and lack of time, but all i can say is that i love even more my Morphos machine!!!

It has nothing to do with MorphOS.

If you want to use a bluetooth keyboard with a Mac System, you need to bootup MacOS and setup a connection. This works like USB keyboard on a PC (legacy support).

Afterwards the OpenFirmware knows about that keyboard and will support it providing a fake USB Mouse/Keyboard.

MorphOS just sees the stuff as normal USB devices.

Geit


[ Edited by geit 28.03.2013 - 16:13 ]

Today i'am trying with MorphOS wireless keyboard Rapoo E9070 white, with his 2,4Ghz receiver, and this setup not works.

Poseidon mount stuff successfully and after few seconds says:

Error hid.class Interrupt pipe failed: packet overflow (7)!
Failure hid.class That's it, that device pissed me off long enough!

In linux all works on same hw.

> for my surprise it works!!! [...] The only thing i can think of is that whe i
> tried long ago was on a previous version of morphos, and some has been
> improved in the newer versions.

Bluetooth keyboards have been reported to work in general some years ago already:

https://morph.zone/modules/newbb_plus/viewtopic.php?topic_id=7238&forum=11

...even if it didn't for you apparently as you wrote back then in that thread. Good thing it's working now.

Yeah, it's good i'm finally using this keyboard as i always wanted. It's strange, but maybe when tried the last time i did something wrong. All in all, now is working, and i'm happy to type this and future messages on it.
The next i will do when i have time is install the 3.1 update and the sdk, as i saw it is now in version 3.2...

In general, the Apple PPC Bluetooth host controllers are hooked in via USB - it's similar to those USB->Bluetooth dongles that were popular at the time when all those gadgets weren't built directly into the notebooks or onboard.
We might improve support for it in the future - at least for keyboard/mouse style devices. For the time being, you have to register any kind of wireless keyboard/mouse bluetooth device via OS X first and it will show up as some USB HID/bootmouse/bootkeyboard within MorphOS then.
I didn't try it myself yet but there have been several people who reported that it would work. I have no idea what happens if you have to replace batteries in the wireless device. You probably have to register it again - depends on how the registration info is stored.

@pega-1

Replacing batteries shouldn't matter (otherwise you would to need "reconnect" everytime under OSX too), it rather seems that each BT device has an unique ID (just like a MAC address) which is stored in the OF's NVRAM.

A dead "clock"/NVRAM-battery in the computer on the other hand might proove fatal.


The only problem that I would really like to be fixed is that BT mice are restricted to 3 buttons when connected via the OF-BT-USB stuff (read no scrollwheel).

Yeah, scrollwheel would be nice, as it would allow the use of the trackball in the mighty mouse.

Atleast the wired (USB) version of Mighty Mouse has only 1 button (just like any other Apple-mouse), so it's pretty useless for MorphOS-use.

Quote:

The mighty mouse has 4 buttons, left, right and two "squeeze" buttons on the sides.
Now i'm not sure if MorphOS can use them all, but i think i used one on an efika years ago.



[ Edited by SoundSquare 03.08.2013 - 00:35 ]