Solve:Bluetooth Keyboard worked during the start but failed to work subsequently

[deathsyct]

Hi, I have paired my bluetooth keyboard with retropie successfully for the first time and it work perfectly.
However, upon restarting my retropie, the bluetooth keyboard failed to work.
I even remove all bluetooth settings and re-setup again but it did not work this time.

any idea what went wrong?

below are the steps I did:
– download all the required packages
– hcitool scan to get the mac address of my keyboard
– bluez-simple-agent to connect and pair my keyboard
– bluez-test-device trusted to ensure it gets connected in future
– bluez-test-input to test the input

all the above steps went well without any errors but my keyboard is still not working in emulationstation.

[petrockblog]

Did you try using the bluetooth configuration tool in retropie-setup ?

[petrockblog]

Which version of RetroPie ? Jessie or Wheezy ?

[deathsyct]

hi buzz, i’m using the image build from smithers which has dual boot of RetroPie v3.2.1 & OpenELEC v6 (KODI v15.2 Isengard)

below is what i got when i did a hcitool con

Connections:
        < ACL 20:73:00:50:98:58 handle 0 state 1 lm MASTER AUTH

however when i press any key on the bluetooth keyboard, its not responding.
any idea what could be the reason?

[deathsyct]

i notice that sometimes, after restart, the keyboard manage to work.
any idea why this is happening?

[petrockblog]

I cannot support 3rd party images.

Please try from the latest official image, and use the bluetooth pairing module from retropie-setup to pair the keyboard.

[deathsyct]

no worries.
i manage to get it resolved.

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