WiPy 2.0 as a Bluetooth HID keyboard?
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With the upcoming BLE server API, will the WiPy 2.0 and Expansion Board be suitable for prototyping a Bluetooth keyboard?
My main requirement is the ability to interpret up to 20 simultaneous keypresses, then process the input and send a string over Bluetooth upon final keyup.
Would also like to be able to default to a USB HID if the USB cable is connected. The Pyboard has a usb_mode feature for this that you can set to
pyb.hid_keyboard, but I couldn't see anything similar in the pycom module yet.
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Thanks, @jmarcelino – appreciate the feedback. I'll likely wait until pairing is available.
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It depends on your target application. It should be possible to implement a simple BLE HID profile to emulate a keyboard, so if your target supports Bluetooth LE (not Bluetooth Classic) keyboards it could work.
However many platforms now - macOS, Windows 10 and, while I haven't checked recently, possibly also newer versions of iOS or Android - require BLE bonding/pairing for keyboards to work and this isn't available yet.
As for USB I don't think the WiPy ha USB stack (the ESP32 doesn't have a USB peripheral) and the only USB socket is on the expansion board which really just goes to a dedicated USB-serial chip.
