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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon T-vK

Enable iPhone onscreen keyboard when connected to esp32

Open shaddowgigs opened this issue 3 years ago • 2 comments

Is there a way to get the onscreen keyboard to pop up when i connect my esp32 as a bluetooth device? Im making a 5 key bluetooth keyboard for Switch Control on an iphone and if I set the keys to be used a regular keys the onscreen keyboard gets disabled. I tried using the media keys like play, next, volume etc and in that case the keyboard will show but Switch Control wont recognize it.

shaddowgigs avatar Jan 11 '22 06:01 shaddowgigs

I don't have any Apple devices so can't really test this. I guess it's a feature of iOS to disable the software keyboard when a Bluetooth keyboard is connected? Maybe there is a setting in iOS to override that behavior.

T-vK avatar Jan 13 '22 23:01 T-vK

Changing the usage (USB HID usage table) from Keyboard 0x06 to Keypad 0x07 does the trick for me. Is there a way to have this be configurable?

https://github.com/T-vK/ESP32-BLE-Keyboard/blob/183afacf04982af9961c6f47e64e2ed387f301ee/BleKeyboard.cpp#L34

tysonmatanich avatar Jan 25 '22 03:01 tysonmatanich