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Turn your phone into a powerful Bluetooth keyboard and mouse

https://lemdro.id/post/131133

Turn your phone into a powerful Bluetooth keyboard and mouse - Lemdro.id

This is a gem if an app that turns your android phone into a Bluetooth mouse and keyboard for other devices. I use it to control an Android tv box. As you no typing with on-screen keyboards is an absolute pain. With this app you can type anything on your smartphone and send it to any text field on your other device. You can also add cistom keys and key combinations. It can also work as a mouse with customizable buttons.

M-Reimer Jul 20, 2023

Actually I have a real Bluetooth keyboard to type things on my phone as typing on a small phone screen can be an absolute pain 😂

Mrrdrr Jul 21, 2023

I have several too. I still find usefulness in this as you can copy-paste text to the other device, like long passwords/emails. I would have killed to have something like this when i had to setup my parents smart-tv.

Blastoid5000 Jul 20, 2023

My tv is my second monitor. I have used this app almost daily for an entire year. It’s pretty good. The custom layout needs some work. Either that or I’m too dumb (it’s probably that).

Koffiato Jul 20, 2023

As an alternative, you could consider KDE Connect. It does a lot more than just keyboard and touchpad. You can even send files both ways extremely quickly.

Dettweiler Jul 20, 2023

It looks like you have to install KDE connect on both devices, and they have to be on the same network. Handy, but completely different type of app and method of execution.

mFat Jul 20, 2023

Yeah this app needs no “server” app. It’s original names was “serverless keyboard and mouse”

Mrrdrr Jul 21, 2023

While i adore the project. I tried it for a year and it got to the point that i had made a script to restart the process as the reliability of it actually working was non-existent. Off course it never worked when it could’ve saved some time. I usually ended up telegramming files.

This was on android & windows connection maybe 1-2 years ago. Maybe it’s gotten better. I haven’t had to use it as the Motorola Ready For -desktop companion is doing good.

m-p{3}Jul 20, 2023

Despite all my attempts, I can’t seem to get it to connect to my Windows laptop as a virtual mouse and keyboard.

Mrrdrr Jul 21, 2023

I had remove a previous saved connection from the pc-side.

m-p{3}Jul 21, 2023

Already tried re-pairing from scratch, no bueno.

Metallibus Jul 20, 2023

There are a slew of Android TV remote apps that do all this and more, like including home/back buttons, integrated search etc. They also pair easier. The first party Google TV app covers this smoother than a BT keyboard/mouse app.

m-p{3}Jul 20, 2023

The first party one has been merged right into the Google TV app.

Metallibus Jul 20, 2023

Ahh, that’s where that went… I couldn’t find it in my apps and figured I’d removed it.

mFat Jul 20, 2023

Most of them need a server app to be installed on the other machine. This app needs no server or companion apps.

Metallibus Jul 20, 2023

The official one doesn’t. I’ve used a couple others that didn’t.

mFat Jul 20, 2023

I guess that needs your phone and Gogle TV to be connected to the same wifi network. This only needs bluetooth. It also has advanced features such as a pc keyboard, customized shortcuts and a lot more!

redcalcium Jul 21, 2023

Wow it actually works with Chromecast Ultra. It works with my Linux desktop too, previously I use kdeconnect for that.

GamerBoy705 Jul 21, 2023

I’ve used it before, it doesn’t work at all even on multiple devices. But hey, that’s just me. Maybe the app has improved now.

donio Jul 21, 2023

This looks neat except for the keylogging potential. I’d want something like this to be open source before I can use it seriously.

Rodrigo Souza Jul 21, 2023

Instant buy! Thanks a lot for it

I used for years Unified Remote, but this app stopped in time. So I switched to KDE Connect, but this was very redundant with Join (my other app to connect my device).

This one… It’s perfect! And no server required opens up more and more use cases :)

mFat Jul 21, 2023

Yeah I think this is a must-have app. Glad it you found it useful!

gun/linux Jul 21, 2023

Sauce code?

sag Jul 21, 2023

Paid app :(