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Post Post subject: Making a PC act as a Bluetooth keyboard   
Posted: Saturday, 18 Sep 2010, 22:17   
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I wonder if you guys know a way to make a PC act like it's a Bluetooth keyboard so a phone can connect to it to use it's keyboard. It sounds possible but I couldn't find any application that does this. I also hope that I don't need a special dongle.

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(A Linux solution could also be useful. I guess I could run a lightweight distro in a VM for it.)

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Post Post subject: Re: Making a PC act as a Bluetooth keyboard   
Posted: Sunday, 19 Sep 2010, 02:25   
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Shaman AlicanC wrote:
I wonder if you guys know a way to make a PC act like it's a Bluetooth keyboard so a phone can connect to it to use it's keyboard. It sounds possible but I couldn't find any application that does this. I also hope that I don't need a special dongle.

TY

(A Linux solution could also be useful. I guess I could run a lightweight distro in a VM for it.)

So let me get this straight. You want to use your pc keyboard to input stuff on your mobile in real time as if the pc keyboard was tied to the phone?
Exactly what form of connection between the phone and pc are you using? And what phone are we talking about here.
If you have a bluetooh adapter for your pc and your mobile phone supports bluetooh also, depending on the phone brand, you could find some apps that offer you the ability to txt stuff on your mobile, using the pc keyboard.

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Post Post subject: Re: Making a PC act as a Bluetooth keyboard   
Posted: Sunday, 19 Sep 2010, 02:58   
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arent there better methods like typing @ pc and then sync it?

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Post Post subject: Re: Making a PC act as a Bluetooth keyboard   
Posted: Sunday, 19 Sep 2010, 03:10   
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I am talking about an iPhone 4. I got everything prepared and I am just waiting for it to come out. (It comes to Turkey in 24th.) It supports Bluetooth keyboards by default, but I don't want to pay extra for the hardware and make my PC serve as a BT keyboard instead.

Why? because I want to practice stuff like touch support and responding to orientation changes on my web sites. I really don't want to be using the phone keyboard while doing that. I am also thinking of running IM applications on my phone instead of my PC to save space on my screen, reduce the load (yes, it's a considerable load for my crappy PC) and stay online during restarts, etc.

I won't be able to do any of these easily without a physical keyboard.

I am installing Arch in a VM to be open to Linux solutions as well. (Damn KDE installation is taking it's time...)

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Also don't turn this into a phone/OS fight and don't ask me why I am getting an overpriced phone instead of upgrading my crappy PC.

I have my reasons for both,

bitches. :mrgreen:

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Post Post subject: Re: Making a PC act as a Bluetooth keyboard   
Posted: Sunday, 19 Sep 2010, 07:29   
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Shaman AlicanC wrote:

Also don't turn this into a phone/OS fight and don't ask me why I am getting an overpriced phone instead of upgrading my crappy PC.

I have my reasons for both,

bitches. :mrgreen:

Lol? Overpriced? I got myself one too and it's not overpriced for all the shit it can do.
It should come here next week. I've played with it already and it's definitely lovely.

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Post Post subject: Re: Making a PC act as a Bluetooth keyboard   
Posted: Sunday, 19 Sep 2010, 12:06   
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you might give this a shot
http://www.mulliner.org/bluetooth/xkbdbthid.php

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Post Post subject: Re: Making a PC act as a Bluetooth keyboard   
Posted: Sunday, 19 Sep 2010, 14:13   
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Shaman AlicanC wrote:
I am talking about an iPhone 4. I got everything prepared and I am just waiting for it to come out. (It comes to Turkey in 24th.) It supports Bluetooth keyboards by default, but I don't want to pay extra for the hardware and make my PC serve as a BT keyboard instead.

Does your PC have a BT device then, if so which?

Shaman AlicanC wrote:
I am installing Arch in a VM to be open to Linux solutions as well. (Damn KDE installation is taking it's time...)

Don't. Get VcXsrv or similar and do X11 remoting. That's a lot better than having two desktops.

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Post Post subject: Re: Making a PC act as a Bluetooth keyboard   
Posted: Sunday, 19 Sep 2010, 14:33   
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arez wrote:

I don't know if it will work directly on my installation. I really don't want to port the GUI.

Also I wonder how Nokia ended up using GNOME. It would make a lot of more sense if they used KDE since KDE is based on Qt framework.

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Shaman AlicanC wrote:
I am talking about an iPhone 4. I got everything prepared and I am just waiting for it to come out. (It comes to Turkey in 24th.) It supports Bluetooth keyboards by default, but I don't want to pay extra for the hardware and make my PC serve as a BT keyboard instead.

Does your PC have a BT device then, if so which?

I have this one:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6833320016

The page says that it supports HID, but I don't know if it only covers using HID devices and not acting as an HID device.

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Shaman AlicanC wrote:
I am installing Arch in a VM to be open to Linux solutions as well. (Damn KDE installation is taking it's time...)

Don't. Get VcXsrv or similar and do X11 remoting. That's a lot better than having two desktops.

Hmm. I'll find you on IRC for some help if I decide to go with that.

Currently I am thinking of using http://code.google.com/p/pybluez/ and code something on Windows.

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