[AppleTV2]HOWTO Enable BT Keyboard support

pvautrin Wrote:Edit: I was able to pair again keyboard. You have to type 0000 on keyboard during the connecting screen (and not wait for the "input 0000" screen). I initially had some strange key events that seemed to add Esc to every arrow movement, but this went away after starting XBMC. So everything works for me, including waking up ATV2 from BT keyboard (yes, ATV2 has wake on BT

Sadly this isn't working for me. I tried it again and again. But no luck.

I was able to revert to the old situation however by going to /var/cache/apt/archives where the old versions are cached. I did an killall Apple TV and then uninstalled the new packages with apt-get remove ... Afterwards I installed the old versions from the archive folder with dpkg -i ...

Going back to Lowtide and starting the BTStack the DiNovoMini connected instantly. I didn't even have to pair. So I would say the changes are indeed responsible. Keyboard is now working fine in XBMC but only elementary in Lowtide.

@pvautrin:
Where are those "logs" you are talking about and how did you contact Matthias?

kind regards

SlrG

BTstack and keyboardd logs are in /var/log
I got Matthias email from his project page in one of the comments here
http://code.google.com/p/btstack/wiki/MatthiasProjects

I actually just finished wiping and reinstalling ATV2 following the untethered RC6 release and can give step by step what worked for me:
- first, pair keyboard with another computer and then shut down keyboard via long press
- install org.torg.tomcool.btstack-ui
- reboot (now trivial since untethered)
- start search from BTstack
- turn on keyboard -> Lowtide crashes and restarts
- retry with keyboard turned on (green light blinking) before search
- this time selecting keyboard no longer crashes and pairing completes (but with some key artifacts)
- make ATV2 sleep, and on wake up everything should work

Hope this helps

Did the untethered jailbreak too today. DiNovoMini keyboard is working in Lowtide and XBMC. It has now US layout however, which I don't remember being the case before. Anybody an idea how I could change to german?

pvautrin Wrote:BTstack and keyboardd logs are in /var/log
I got Matthias email from his project page in one of the comments here
http://code.google.com/p/btstack/wiki/MatthiasProjects

I actually just finished wiping and reinstalling ATV2 following the untethered RC6 release and can give step by step what worked for me:
- first, pair keyboard with another computer and then shut down keyboard via long press
- install org.torg.tomcool.btstack-ui
- reboot (now trivial since untethered)
- start search from BTstack
- turn on keyboard -> Lowtide crashes and restarts
- retry with keyboard turned on (green light blinking) before search
- start BTstack and pair your Keyboard, type the 0000 and hit enter
- this time selecting keyboard no longer crashes and pairing completes (but with some key artifacts)
- make ATV2 sleep, and on wake up everything should work

Hope this helps

Thank you very much.
You make my day
Robi

OP thanks for the info works great with my apple kb...

this worked perfectly for me using this keyboard
http://www.riitek.com/product_Info.asp?id=45

if anyone can help that would be GREAT. i am getting this error when i use the terminal...


Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
ch.ringwald.keyboard-atv: Depends: ch.ringwald.btstack but it is not installable

then this one...


Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
org.tomcool.btstack-ui: Depends: ch.ringwald.btstack but it is not installable
Depends: ch.ringwald.keyboard-atv but it is not going to be installed

Using the latest build on the main page. Thanks

ch.ringwald.btstack should be in bigboss repository
If it's missing from your sources, check: http://jaxov.com/2010/07/how-to-add-bigb...ory-cydia/
If you used untethered jb rc6, then it should be there already
It's also possible that the package is temporarily broken (this project is quite active), so maybe wait a day or two and see if things are back to normal

SlrG Wrote:Did the untethered jailbreak too today. DiNovoMini keyboard is working in Lowtide and XBMC. It has now US layout however, which I don't remember being the case before. Anybody an idea how I could change to german?

by Lowtide you mean Directional Pad ?

Does anyone else use a Logitech Harmony remote with their ATV? I've been using a small HTPC mainly for XBMC, but I recently bought an ATV2 for testing with XBMC. If I can get it to work to my liking, I will be repurposing that HTPC.

Anyway, I've been using my Harmony remote to send keyboard presses to my HTPC. I was wondering if anyone's found a way to get the ATV to accept keypresses via a Harmony remote yet?

I'm borrowing an Apple bluetooth keyboard from a friend later to mess around with. I'm going to scour the Harmony forums to see if anyone's figured out any keyboard method for the ATV, too.