I have a raspberry pi 3 running Recalbox v6.0 and an apple wireless keyboard 2011. I cannot get Recalbox to pair with the keyboard. I have read some posts which suggest you have to unpair the keyboard with any previous devices, but I cannot do this (the laptop it originally paired with no longer works).
I found a page which recommended connecting the keyboard to another Mac, then unpairing it, powering it down, then long-holding on the power key whilst pairing to a new device. So I tried this whilst doing the following on the Pi:
SSH'd into the pi, then:
sudo service bluetooth status # Verify bluetooth is active.
bluetoothctl # Lauch bluetooth subshell.
agent on # [No idea what this does.]
default-agent # [No idea what this does.]
scan on # Displays a list of available devices.
pair 60:C5:47:16:3D:A3 # This prepares a potential connection, the X's represent your device ID
# A "PIN code" will be displayed, type it on the keyboard and press "enter".
trust 60:C5:47:16:3D:A3 # Adds device to trusted devices, this survives reboot.
connect 60:C5:47:16:3D:A3 # Connect to the device now.
exit # Return to previous shell.
(where 60:C5:47:16:3D:A3 is the ID of my keyboard).
This appeared to almost work once - I got as far as entering the PIN code, but then it failed, and each time I tried again, I got the error
Failed to pair: org.bluez.Error.AlreadyExists
even after reboots and repairing/unpairing from the Mac.
Any suggestions appreciated. If I need a USB bluetooth dongle, please suggest known working models with the Pi3 and the apple keyboard.
