Trouble with bluetooth

[dezi]

Ok, my solution to this issue is at this moment a little bit dirty and i don't really like it. Since i have no other options to remote control my XBian other than a Bluetooth Keyboard and a Bluetooth mouse, i am ok with it.

Basically what You have to do before You start up XBMC is to make sure, keyboard and mouse are active. I installed the following set of packages for bluetooth:

sudo apt-get install bluez bluez-compat
sudo apt-get install python-gobject python-dbus

I have than successfully paired mouse and keyboard with the Raspberry.

I have switched off XBMC auto start via xbian-config, which lets You boot into a tty console on TV-screen. You should check at this stage, if the keyboard is properly reconnected when You try to login. I do not remember exactly, but i also have unconfigured the XBian splash-screen, because it obscures the tty-login.

To disable th splash screen, modify /root/cmdline.txt. Take out the last item "splash".

@CurlyMo: what is the meaning of "console=tty2" in this file? Does the XBMC run on tty2? I have changed this to tty1 for my purposes, but do not know, what impact this has...

After this i modified /etc/inittab such way, that is does an autologin with mingetty to user xbian (apt-get install mingetty) and added a little loop to .bashrc, which waits for the user to wiggle the mouse and awake the keyboard. I am at office right now and have no access to give the sample script. Will do in the evening.

After this i initiate XBMC startup within tty1. Then it works fine. Even if mouse and keyboard fall asleep, they reconnect properly in XBMC.

What i do not like about this, is having an open console login to my raspian. Any user can leave XBMC and finds a valid session w/o password reconnect. Also we are leaving the path of the /etc/init.d/xbmc startup script.

As long as XBMC does not hot-plug keyboard and mouse, i have to live with that. What i will check out, if it is possible, to insert the mouse and keyboard wakeup into /etc/init.d/xbmc, maybe with another splash-screen which tells user to wiggle the mouse and keyboard before XBMC fires up.

Cheers
dezi