Bluetooth keyboards and SBCs: a general issue?

Last Updated on May 15, 2023 by pg@petergamma.org

After we reviewed this topic in our journal intensively, we ask ourselves, are there SBC at all which work with Bluetooth keyboard?

Bluetooth keyboards for Orange Pi 5 and Radxa zero:

is there a single proof that a single bluetooth keyboard works with these two devices?

The reviewer in this example could not convince us that it works, altough he claims that it does:

Also this reviewer claims that a mini keyboard works with the Orange Pi 5, but he shows no proof:

Also programmer 3 Roberto Alsina claims that he could pair a Bluetooth keyboard to the Radxa Zero:

But he shows us no proof. Why if Bluetooth works does he then use a big usb keyboad for his small laptop?

http://ralsina.me/weblog/posts/so-i-built-a-laptop.html

And why does PinePhone developer Martin Braams such a big effort to develop a PinePhone keyboard over the POGO pins:

Whid did not not choose a Bluetooth keyboard? Because he had the same problems the SBCs have?

The only proof that Bluetooth keyoard works with SBC which we know is the Odroid XU4q:

NovatechSpirit claims to use a Bluetooth keyboard. But is there a proof, that this is not a fake, either?

The only think we not that it works for sure with a Bluetooth keyboard is a Raspberry zero w2 which worked without Bluetooth donglewhat we tested ourselves.

  • And we do not know of any compaints that Bluetooth keyboards do not work with the Raspberry Pi zero w2.