Cannot pair Bluetooth keyboard with Vero 4K (APLIC 303324

[adrienne]

Hi, I bought a bluetooth keyboard from ebay. I can get it working on other devices but I can get it to pair with my computer, but not with my Vero 4K.

This is the keyboard manual (in German): APLIC 303324/20180622SZ140 BEDIENUNGSANLEITUNG Pdf-Herunterladen | ManualsLib

Vero sees the device in bluetooth discovery mode. The keyboard requires a pin in order to pair but when I select “Connect with Pin” after a few seconds I get the message “Connection to Aplic-303324 failed”.

When I select “connect without pin” the keyboard works for a few seconds and then disconnects.

If anyone has any ideas for me I will be very grateful.

Thank you

Adrienne

[darwindesign]

I’d check out this how to and try it via the terminal…

[How-to] set up Bluetooth audio

[Updated November 2021] Bluez-alsa allows you to stream audio both to and from your OSMC device. We have now integrated bluez-alsa into OSMC as a replacement for our a2dp package which is deprecated. Our Kodi v19 builds include bluez-alsa. If you are still on v18.9, you can install it on Vero 4k or RPi 2/3 with: sudo apt-get install armv7-bluezalsa-osmc and re-boot to get the bluealsa service started. If you have previously installed one of our older BT audio packages, you will need to re…

[adrienne]

hey. thanks.

that link is mainly about bluetooth audio, which seems a bit of a different ballpark to what i am dealing with. but i think you’re right. I need to figure out how to pair a bluetooth keyboard from the terminal.

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@adrienne

that link is mainly about bluetooth audio, which seems a bit of a different ballpark to what i am dealing with. but i think you’re right. I need to figure out how to pair a bluetooth keyboard from the terminal.

Yes that is about audio but steps are the same. The crucial one is to “trust”

[adrienne]

Hey there. Yep. You’re right. This worked and I was able to pair the device with a pin and trust and connect to it.

Unfortunately the keyboard and osmc do not automatically make a connection on startup, so I have to do that from the OSMC settings. It works now from there, but is there anyway for the the keyboard and vero just to see one another automatically?

Thank you!

[grahamh]

@adrienne

is there anyway for the the keyboard and vero just to see one another automatically?

With my keyboard, I just have to hit some keys a few times to re-establish the connection, so try that. You could run a script at start-up but after a while the KB will go to sleep. If Vero kept re-connecting your KB battery wouldn’t last long.