Waytools Textblade support on Jolla Phone

asked 2015-04-24 02:36:58 +0300

Dr H gravatar image

Hey Jolla Party Peeps!

I'm interested in buying a Waytools Textblade, a bluetooth keyboard, to use with my Jolla Phone. I asked them on Twitter if the two devices were compatible and their reply was:

Jolla HW supports BLE & could talk to TextBlade - but Sailfish OS needs to add SW support (HID over GATT bluetooth profile)

From my limited knowledge and research HID (Human Interface Device) over Generic Attribute Profile (GATT) needs to be built into Sailfish. Is this hard to do? What would be the timeline of this being implemented? Am I asking in the right forum?

BTW Jolla ROCKS!!!

Many thanks, Dr Hitchcock.

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I have orderd one.... for use with my ipad. Will be interesting to see if it works on my Jolla too.

FJVA ( 2015-05-02 00:05:28 +0300 )edit
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So I've ordered one and aparently it's arriving this month. I'll keep you posted.

Dr H ( 2015-09-10 13:00:22 +0300 )edit

@Dr H Did you get yours yet?

FJVA ( 2015-10-23 23:58:31 +0300 )edit

Nope. It hadn't arrived a few weeks ago so I got a refund and bought a new toy. Has yours arrived yet? I bought this instead: http://www.korg.com/us/products/dj/volca_sample/

I'm gonna focus on getting a reasonably light laptop instead of getting a Textblade. Although I sure would love one.

Good luck.

Dr H ( 2015-10-27 22:42:50 +0300 )edit

I ordered my Textblade in June and still waiting, like with the Tablet :-). Would be aewsome if the Textblade works with Jolla. If there is any effort needed, I think I could spend some time to make Textblade working

CodeGosu ( 2015-10-28 07:54:21 +0300 )edit