The SySS Bluetooth Keyboard Emulator is a simple proof-of-concept software tool for emulating Bluetooth BR/EDR (a.k.a. Bluetooth Classic) keyboards based on the BlueZ 5 Bluetooth Keyboard Emulator for Raspberry Pi (YAPTB Bluetooth keyboard emulator) by Thanh Le.
It was developed for modern Linux operating systems like Arch Linux with a modern BlueZ 5 Bluetooth protocol stack and utilities.
So far, the keyboard emulator has only been tested on Arch Linux systems.
Caution: The software tool is still work in progress.
- Modern Linux operating system with BlueZ 5 protocol stack (e. g. Arch Linux)
- BlueZ 5 utilities bluez-utils
- Bluetooth adapter, e.g. Bluetooth dongle with supported chipset (so far only tested CSR8510 and BCM20702A0)
- Python 3
- https://pypi.org/project/dbus-python/
- pynput
For setting up the Bluetooth Keyboard Emulator simply run the provided shell script setup.sh with root privileges.
sudo ./setup.sh
Or manually copy the file dbus/de.syss.btkbdservice.conf to /etc/dbus-1/system.d/.
sudo cp dbus/de.syss.btkbdservice.conf /etc/dbus-1/system.d/
Rename or copy the provided sample configuration file keyboard.conf.example to keyboard.conf and edit it with your favorite text editor.
In order to start the Bluetooth Keyboard Emulator, run the provided shell script start.sh in a terminal with root privileges.
sudo ./start.sh
Afterwards, you can attach to the created tmux session named kbdemu.
sudo tmux attach -t kbdemu
Caution: The client component of the running Bluetooth Keyboard Emulator will register and process all keypresses!
For stopping the keyboard emulation, you can simply kill the tmux session.
sudo tmux kill-session -t kbdemu
The following screenshot illustrates the keyboard emulator usage.
Use at your own risk. Do not use without full consent of everyone involved. For educational purposes only.
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