Last Updated on May 8, 2023 by pg@petergamma.org
- Why did Martijn Braam such a big effort to develop a special mini Pinephone keyboard?
- And why does Pine64 sell a separate usb-c dock in their store and indicates with which Linux distros it works?
- We tested 3 thirt party usb-c adapters. None of them worked:
- Other tested 15 of those, most of them worked:
https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=18059
- But what about Bluetooth and usb keyboards?
- The Pinephone has solved to problem by a special Pinephone keyboards
- Odroid has solved the problem by offering special usb and WIFI dongles, but they are not available anymore.
- Wireless keyboard and mouse seem to work with the Odroid XU4a with a dongle, as this video shows, as well as WIFI:
- But for the Radxa zero we know from previous demo that.
- one demo maker managed to attach Bluetooth keyboard and mouse to a device running Debian
- another demo maker attached an usb keyboard to a laptop like device which looks like TRS80
- From the Orange Pi 5 we know that
- an usb mouse works with the Orange Pi 5b with integrated Bluetooth, but not a keyboards
- we do not know anything about how it is with usb keybard and mouse.
- What about the LattePanda devices?
- on Windows, we suppose that Bluetooth works
- but how is it about Linux?
- Is Linux and keyboards and mouse not tricky, as the example with the Pinephone shows?
If you want to share some experience about this topics, please share it in the comments below.