[voidonic]

pybtkeyboard - PC keyboard as bluetooth keyboard for mobile
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http://code.google.com/p/pybtkeyboard/

* Allows the use of your PC keyboard as bluetooth keyboard for inputing text and controlling your mobile
* See btkeyboardphone.py to define your own mappings
* Uses keypress from http://cyke64.googlepages.com (modified to allow raw event input)

Installation
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btkeyboardpc.tar.gz
* Requires python, pyblues, nucurses
* run "python btkeyboardpc.py" in terminal

btkeyboardphone.tar.gz
* sign and install keypress_unsigned.SIS
* copy btkeyboardphone.py to python dir e.g e:\python
* add your PCs bluetooth address to btkeyboardphone.py
* run btkeyboardphone.py

voidonic@gmail.com

[miohtama]

Thanks - this is great!

Any hopes we could get this application under PyS60 Community Edition project version control as an example application?

[aaaaapo]

Originally Posted by voidonic

pybtkeyboard - PC keyboard as bluetooth keyboard for mobile

Is it possible to make this work on MacOsX or linux?
I didn't find pyblues or nucurses (typo? ncurses is available) for mac.

[miohtama]

Originally Posted by aaaaapo

Is it possible to make this work on MacOsX or linux?
I didn't find pyblues or nucurses (typo? ncurses is available) for mac.

On both platforms, it should be possible. Putools bluetooth Python console works on them,

[gaba88]

hi voidonic
the new application seems very interesting will soon give a try.
It seems that you have a pool of python applications now.

Keep it up
Enjoy Pythoning
Gaba88

[cyke64]

Originally Posted by gaba88

hi voidonic
the new application seems very interesting will soon give a try.
It seems that you have a pool of python applications now.

Keep it up
Enjoy Pythoning
Gaba88

YES

Recently many people have developed applications for using PC keyboard for S60 phones (last was YAK)

BR
Cyke64

[voidonic]

Originally Posted by aaaaapo

Is it possible to make this work on MacOsX or linux?
I didn't find pyblues or nucurses (typo? ncurses is available) for mac.

Yes the above is possible. pybluez are here -> http://org.csail.mit.edu/pybluez, I think.

The following file from pybtkeyboard has been updated, it makes it easier to install and run without signing. A new sis file is included with the appropriate caps. Importing keypress should no longer fail.

http://pybtkeyboard.googlecode.com/f...hone0.1.tar.gz

-voidonic

[innocuo]

Originally Posted by cyke64

YES

Recently many people have developed applications for using PC keyboard for S60 phones (last was YAK)

BR
Cyke64

yes, I'll be one more. When I started, I didn't know such an app already existed I just finished my keyboard app, but have some bugs I need to fix (still have some problems with a few keys, and threads).

I'm aiming only for the n95, which is my phone . It was a nice little project to learn python, but damn, I got so distracted...in the middle of the project I started to play around with the accelerometer module, twisted (module to create sockets servers on the pc), papervision3D in flash...etc, etc

Anyway, I hope I can release the code next week, though I'll have to check out this project as well to see if I can improve mine as well

I did mine with glade and gtk for the pc side, and tested it on maemo (on my n810) and it worked more or less fine.

[neil.young]

Where to get bluetooth from on PC?

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "btkeyboardpc.py", line 2, in <module>
import bluetooth
ImportError: No module named bluetooth

[miohtama]

Originally Posted by neil.young

Where to get bluetooth from on PC?

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "btkeyboardpc.py", line 2, in <module>
import bluetooth
ImportError: No module named bluetooth

http://org.csail.mit.edu/pybluez/

Python Bluetooth port can expose any number of serial devices on the host operating system. So you can also use:

http://pyserial.wiki.sourceforge.net/pySerial

[neil.young]

PyBluez installed. Next hurdle:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "btkeyboardpc.py", line 3, in <module>
import curses
File "C:\python25\lib\curses\__init__.py", line 15, in <module>
from _curses import *
ImportError: No module named _curses

Hmm...

[y.a.k]

@voidonic

Hi, nice app. You can check mine out in this thread, it's called RemoteKB:
http://discussion.forum.nokia.com/fo...d.php?t=139220

I also had to modify the keypress module. You probably could just use mine as it also allows to simulate raw events. It would actually be a good idea not to fork it anymore.

Mine was announced in the following thread:
http://discussion.forum.nokia.com/fo...d.php?t=138698

[miohtama]

Originally Posted by neil.young

PyBluez installed. Next hurdle:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "btkeyboardpc.py", line 3, in <module>
import curses
File "C:\python25\lib\curses\__init__.py", line 15, in <module>
from _curses import *
ImportError: No module named _curses

Hmm...

Any luck with Google?

[neil.young]

No, didn't try that by now.

[JOM]

Originally Posted by neil.young

No, didn't try that by now.

Curses is basically ASCII graphics with some control chars, too. I would guess anything done with curses would pretty bad on S60 device Here's a checkbox for you:

T---T
I x I
L---J

Ex-curses user,

--jouni