bluetooth keyboard that might work

zachery980 · 09/09/2011, 01:13 PM

i was thinking a bout building a Bluetooth keyboard from an old Bluetooth headset and use a different pitch for each key and have an app on the pre that turns that pitch in to a letter or mumbler . the only thing is i i cant solder to save my life or if its going to Work

zane9000 · 09/09/2011, 02:13 PM

That seems like an insane amount of work. Why not just buy a regular bluetooth keyboard?

zachery980 · 09/09/2011, 03:31 PM

the pre wont work with a normal blutooth keyboard palm never made a driver

CvvB · 09/10/2011, 09:54 AM

Nice though .... I am interested in this, also

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I think it is feasible. I haven't looked deep into it but my initial thought is that once you have the old Headset, you can take the Bluetooth chip. Or, you can buy a cheap chip for that matter. Connect the keyboard to the bluetooth chip through a uController. In the u Controller, we can build our own protocol.

Implementing the protocol will be done through a service and few patches here and there in the Luna Manager Application in webOS.

Or ...

we can just implement a driver for the standard Bluetooth protocol through Services and Luna patches.

Let me know what do you think and I will go through the structure of webOS to see if that can be done.

P.S.
I think we should also make sure the webOS 2.2 doesn't implement that feature; it might be that HPalm already included that in 2.2!

zachery980 · 09/10/2011, 11:17 AM

sure lets give it a shot im gathering parts as we speak for testing im just going to do like 3-4 buttons just to see if it works if so the only bad thing is i only have a pre- (1.4.5) but i think the file system is basically the same

zachery980 · 09/10/2011, 12:15 PM

i was doing some testing with a bluetooth head set and their might be a delay with the sound reaching the device it seems the delay is 1-2 sec

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zachery980 Member Join Date: Jun 2011 Posts: 12 Likes Received: 0 Thanks: 1 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	the pre wont work with a normal blutooth keyboard palm never made a driver __________________ if you can't mod it or hack it, it ant worth it
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CvvB Member Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 478 Likes Received: 126 Thanks: 45 Thanked 288 Times in 111 Posts	Nice though .... I am interested in this, also . I think it is feasible. I haven't looked deep into it but my initial thought is that once you have the old Headset, you can take the Bluetooth chip. Or, you can buy a cheap chip for that matter. Connect the keyboard to the bluetooth chip through a uController. In the u Controller, we can build our own protocol. Implementing the protocol will be done through a service and few patches here and there in the Luna Manager Application in webOS. Or ... we can just implement a driver for the standard Bluetooth protocol through Services and Luna patches. Let me know what do you think and I will go through the structure of webOS to see if that can be done. P.S. I think we should also make sure the webOS 2.2 doesn't implement that feature; it might be that HPalm already included that in 2.2!
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zachery980 Member Join Date: Jun 2011 Posts: 12 Likes Received: 0 Thanks: 1 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	sure lets give it a shot im gathering parts as we speak for testing im just going to do like 3-4 buttons just to see if it works if so the only bad thing is i only have a pre- (1.4.5) but i think the file system is basically the same __________________ if you can't mod it or hack it, it ant worth it
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zachery980 Member Join Date: Jun 2011 Posts: 12 Likes Received: 0 Thanks: 1 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	i was doing some testing with a bluetooth head set and their might be a delay with the sound reaching the device it seems the delay is 1-2 sec __________________ if you can't mod it or hack it, it ant worth it
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