Connect a bluetooth keyboard to Rasperry Pi 3 Arch Linux ARM
I just wanted to connect a bluetooth keyboard WK29B keyboard to my Raspberry Pi. It wasn't immediately straightforward, so I had to:
- install
base-devel
to be able to build packages from AUR - download hciattach-rpi3 and pi-bluetooth
- untar both of them (e.g.
tar xvf hciattach-rpi3
) - build and install
hciattach-rpi3
first bymakepkg -si
- then build and install
pi-bluetooth
- enable and start
bcrm43438
bysudo systemctl enable brcm43438.service
,sudo systemctl start brcm43438.service
- install
bluez
,bluez-utils
bypacman -Sy bluez
- enable and start
bluetooth
- go to
bluetoothctl
shell and:
power on
agent on
scan on # make sure that your keyboard/device is discoverable (I had to press ctrl+K)
trust MAC_ADDRESS
pair MAC_ADDRESS # I had to "blindly" type some code and press enter
connect MAC_ADDRESS
That should be all!