<a href=”http://www.flickr.com/photos/7211453@N07/8344020182″><img style=”cursor: default; float: none; margin: 0px;” unselectable=”on” alt=”Raspberry pi” src=”http://farm9.static.flickr.com/8355/8344020182_e024de8d5b_m.jpg”></a> <p>The above photo is my Pi setup<br> </p> <p>So , for my birthday in October I got a Raspberry Pi. I spent some time going though different distributions of XBMC, Raspberian etc before settling on <a href=”http://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads”>Raspbian “wheezy” </a> Which i installed on a 8gb Scandisk SDHC (class 4) as i kept on running into space problems with the 4gb one I got from <a href=”http://uk.farnell.com/raspberry-pi-accessories”>Farnell</a>.</p> <p>The reason I am posting about the Raspberry pi is that one of my New Year resolutions is to blog some more about interesting topics and to try and get a broad code knowledge in python, ruby, html etc. Not becoming an expert but knowing enough to change code and get customers out of any problem. </p> The first thing I did this side of the New Year was to get my Rii Mini Blutooth keyboard to work – I used <a href=”www.fineartradiography.com/hobbies/comp/pibt.html”>www.fineartradiography.com/hobbies/comp/pibt.html </a> Though the domain has expired so use <a href=”http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:CmmbGh9NyyYJ:www.fineartradi”>http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:CmmbGh9NyyYJ:www.fineartradi </a> <span id=”pastemarkerend”></span> to get the Google cache version <br> <br> <pre>apt-get update apt-get install bluez-utils apt-get install bluez-compat This updates the software repositories, and installs the approprite bluetooth utilities. Set the keyboard to connect by holding down the bluetooth button. On the pi run: hcitool scan This tool scans for any available bluetooth devices. look for the entry ‘Macro Keyboard’, make a note of its mac address. Test the functionality by: hidd –connect aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff Where aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff is the mac address of your keyboard! </pre> That works as long as you remember to turn the keyboard on and press the Bluetooth button before you turn the Pi on. <br> <br> <br>
