wireless keyboard Using Wireless Keyboard in BIOS

[Crave]

Hello everyone,

 

i'm new here, so if i created a wrong topic in a wrong section, please tell me.

 

I like to use all PC peripherals without cables, be it controller or mouse+keyboard. The keyboard, which i use every day is Varmilo VB87M and while it feels nice to use it in system, it's a bit annoying when you can't use it in BIOS, so i'm interested in making it work in that part of a computer too.

 

I've done some research here and there, and found that you need a Bluetooth adapter/dongle, which supports HID proxy mode. I've also found that Laird company produces 5.0 and 4.0 Bluetooth adapters and assures you that they both support HID and HIC modes. Now, i have some experience about Bluetooth adapters, but this is the first time i hear about these modes, so if anybody has any experience with Bluetooth adapters and how they work, i'd appreciate any kind of help in this task.

[Constantin]

I don't think anything wireless will work in bios 

[ImAyaanKhan]

If your keyboard has a wired mode, try it and see if it works. My k63 wireless does the same thing. Remove the wireless adapter and/or disable Bluetooth and plug in the charging cable.

[Crave]

On 4/12/2019 at 8:22 PM, ImAyaanKhan said:

If your keyboard has a wired mode, try it and see if it works. My k63 wireless does the same thing. Remove the wireless adapter and/or disable Bluetooth and plug in the charging cable.

Unfortunately, its wire is only for charging the keyboard. I've tried to find some way to make it register through USB, but i guess, the keyboard lacks something on its PCB, so there's no other way of using it, except Bluetooth.

 

I've contacted Laird about their claim and still waiting for their answer.

[bowrilla]

Bluetooth won't work, RF on the other hand should. If it requires an RF dongle it should work. Bluetooth devices usually require some drivers to be loaded first, which usually won't work. My wireless mouse for example does work perfectly well in RF mode in BIOS.

[Crave]

13 hours ago, bowrilla said:

Bluetooth won't work, RF on the other hand should. If it requires an RF dongle it should work. Bluetooth devices usually require some drivers to be loaded first, which usually won't work. My wireless mouse for example does work perfectly well in RF mode in BIOS.

I've done some digging and i found that apparently Apple implemented the support for using Bluetooth keyboards in BIOS through D-Link DBT-120 Bluetooth adapter. To use HID proxy mode and use your Bluetooth devices in BIOS, you need to flash an adapter, but the problem is that this same adapter works only with iOS.

 

For anyone's interested, here's an information file of Laird's dongle, which has instructions to install and switch modes between HID and HIC:

https://connectivity-staging.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/2018-10/Application%20Note%20-%20BT800%20Series%20HID%20Proxy.pdf