laptop keyboard as external keyboard

[yousef fouad]

can I use my laptop keyboard as an external keyboard to my console. and no I cant use remote play because my internet sucks and I don't want to modify remote play to work without internet because I want to play online with my friend.

[pythonmegapixel]

You'll need to tell us what laptop and what console you have. But the answer is most likely no.

[yousef fouad]

Just now, pythonmegapixel said:

You'll need to tell us what laptop and what console you have. But the answer is most likely no.

i'm using an asus tuf gaming fx504 and ps4 pro

[kelvinhall05]

Not without opening the laptop, removing the keyboard, hoping it's a brainless matrix and doesn't output any protocol you'd have to decode, then map the matrix, wire it to a Pro Micro or Teensy, set up a QMK config, figure out a case, etc etc etc

 

Just get a USB keyboard.

[pythonmegapixel]

1 minute ago, yousef fouad said:

i'm using an asus tuf gaming fx504 and ps4 pro

Just buy a cheap wireless USB keyboard off amazon or something, and use that (plug it into the front of the PS4). I highly doubt you can use the one form your laptop.

[yousef fouad]

maybe i will get the cheapest one from the store next door

[PeachGr]

Even if you remove the keyboard, you will need a keyboard to usb adapter that is more expensive than the keyboard, I have one, but the missing part was about 25$ at best.

Now I feel the need to search again

[yousef fouad]

20 hours ago, kelvinhall05 said:

Not without opening the laptop, removing the keyboard, hoping it's a brainless matrix and doesn't output any protocol you'd have to decode, then map the matrix, wire it to a Pro Micro or Teensy, set up a QMK config, figure out a case, etc etc etc

 

Just get a USB keyboard.

it's not worth it

[yousef fouad]

20 hours ago, PeachGr said:

Even if you remove the keyboard, you will need a keyboard to usb adapter that is more expensive than the keyboard, I have one, but the missing part was about 25$ at best.

Now I feel the need to search again

yep I will just buy a keyboard

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

On 10/10/2020 at 8:53 AM, yousef fouad said:

it's not worth it

Nope. Laptop keyboards are annoying in the fact that they often use proprietary pin outs for the ribbon cable. And honestly laptop keyboards do not have much in terms of structural rigidity by themselves. Without being mounted to a laptop chassis, it's just going to flex and provide a mushy typing and gaming experience. You can get a pretty decent mechanical keyboard (if you're into that) for around 40 bucks CAD (less in Freedom bucks) so not worth the hassle in any situation.