marc1uk/boogiesync-tablet

A userspace linux driver for using the Boogie Board Sync 9.1 as a tablet input device

Introduction

This is an implementation of a userspace driver for using the Boogie Board Sync as a tablet under linux. There are two apps, one for usb input and one for bluetooth. It uses pyusb/pybluez to interface with the device and the UInput system (via evdev for python) to generate input signals. It's still early days, so it may be unstable.

Requirements

• python
• pyusb (for usb)
• pybluez (for bluetooth)
• evdev

Usage

For the USB app, plug in the device and run the app. If you get timeout errors see the bugs below.

For bluetooth, it should scan for your device so simply running it should work. If not, run blue.py with a specific address (e.g., ./blue.py 00:00:00:00:00:00) which you can discover using "hcitool scan".

Installation

Not sure what of this was required, but:

sudo apt-get install \
  libevdev-dev
  libusb1.0-0-dev 
  libbluetooth-dev
  xserver-xorg-input-evdev
  libinput
  libinput-tools
  xinput
  evtest

sudo pip3 install --user \
  pybluez
  pyusb
  evdev

then create /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-tablet.rules with content:

Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "Boogie Sync BT stylus"
        MatchProduct "boogie-board-sync-pen"
        Driver "evdev"
EndSection

and reboot