BT Keyboard

[nsviper]

Just in the process of trying out XBian on my Raspberry Pi - so far seems more stable to me than Openelec and Raspbian - haven't had the occasional boot issues I've had with the other 2.

So now I'm trying to get a Bluetooth mini keyboard working with it. The USB BT adapter is available and listed in the console when i run "lsusb", but when I try and run hcitool its saying its not installed.

So I had a look at the guide on http://www.ctheroux.com/2012/08/a-step-by-step-guide-to-setup-a-bluetooth-keyboard-and-mouse-on-the-raspberry-pi/ but when I do the apt-get install bluetooth bluez-utils blueman it comes up with a massive list of dependancies (about 100) that I'm not sure I want to install - I don't want to bork the xbian installation.

I have got the BT keyboard and adapter working previously on an HTPC install using XBMC's XBMCbuntu install so I'm ok with running linux commands etc via PuTTY.

Can anyone assist or point me in the right direction?

Are there any specific XBian steps to get BT running or am I ok to follow the instructions in the link above and install all those dependancies?

The reason I'm doing it is to get my Pi with a USB powered hub and a small USB disk drive (Freecom XXS 1TB) and the BT keyboard as a "mobile" media centre - the BT keyboard is incase any TV I plug it into doesn't support HDMI CEC.

Thanks in advance.