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T-vK / ESP32-BLE-Keyboard

Bluetooth LE Keyboard library for the ESP32 (Arduino IDE compatible)
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Enable iPhone onscreen keyboard when connected to esp32 #137

Open shaddowgigs opened 2 years ago

shaddowgigs commented 2 years ago

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.

T-vK commented 2 years ago

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.

tysonmatanich commented 2 years ago

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