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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon tiny-pilot

Support keyboard-only mode

Open mtlynch opened this issue 4 years ago • 3 comments

TinyPilot registers itself as a multifunction USB device, but some BIOS software fails to recognize multifunction USB.

To improve compatibility with those devices, TinyPilot settings should allow the user to switch to "keyboard only mode" which would change the TinyPilot USB gadget to impersonate a simple USB keyboard instead.

mtlynch avatar Dec 31 '20 20:12 mtlynch

might be a solution for the problem mentioned in https://github.com/mtlynch/tinypilot/issues/372

ComputerDoktor avatar Jan 05 '21 12:01 ComputerDoktor

I'm experimenting with this in this branch:

https://github.com/mtlynch/ansible-role-tinypilot/commits/keyboard-only

mtlynch avatar Jan 26 '21 00:01 mtlynch

@mtlynch I experienced this "kind" of problem with a KVM I have, which has a dedicated keyboard input port, which is USB 1.1 compliant only. In order to make use of the KVM, I simply needed to skip linking the mouse functions dir into the configs dir. I could get a mouse to work from TinyPilot, but only one device descriptor at a time.

My "problem" seems to be in the report & messaging by TinyPilot itself, as I have been able to make use of several multi-function USB devices (Logitech Unifiy Receiver, Acer/Lite-On kb/mouse) without issues on the same port.

WarheadsSE avatar Feb 15 '21 15:02 WarheadsSE