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Title: Do any keyboard firmwares support BT on the Adafruit Feather 32u4 Bluefruit?
Post by: trauring on Tue, 29 November 2016, 02:53:28
Do any keyboard firmwares support Bluetooth on the Adafruit Feather 32u4 Bluefruit? I'm sure that there there are firmwares that support the board as a USB HID device, but I'm wondering if any of them support its BT LE functionality. I'm about to start on a new project and it would be nice to have BT as an option.

Thanks.
Title: Re: Do any keyboard firmwares support BT on the Adafruit Feather 32u4 Bluefruit?
Post by: priyadi on Wed, 30 November 2016, 01:45:31
Quote from: trauring on Tue, 29 November 2016, 02:53:28
Do any keyboard firmwares support Bluetooth on the Adafruit Feather 32u4 Bluefruit? I'm sure that there there are firmwares that support the board as a USB HID device, but I'm wondering if any of them support its BT LE functionality. I'm about to start on a new project and it would be nice to have BT as an option.

There are some pull requests for that in QMK. A expect them to be merged in a few days. See here: https://github.com/jackhumbert/qmk_firmware/pulls
Title: Re: Do any keyboard firmwares support BT on the Adafruit Feather 32u4 Bluefruit?
Post by: DanD3n on Thu, 01 December 2016, 08:15:43
Look here: https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/comments/5fn9qm/i_built_a_bluetooth_mechanical_keyboard/ (https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/comments/5fn9qm/i_built_a_bluetooth_mechanical_keyboard/)
Title: Re: Do any keyboard firmwares support BT on the Adafruit Feather 32u4 Bluefruit?
Post by: trauring on Sun, 11 December 2016, 09:17:46
It seems there's another Arduino-compatible BT board from SeeedStudio called the LightBlue Bean+ (https://www.seeedstudio.com/LightBlue-Bean%2B-p-2740.html) which says it uses an ATmega328p processor yet also says it supports HID. That seems impossible, unless it means it support HID for BT only (and not USB). Still, it's an interesting board and comes with a lipo battery attached.