06-30-2024, 09:10 AM
OK, I left the bluetooth keyboard connected to the Pinephone for a full hour. It did not disconnect. A few notes:
Although the keyboard had been previously paired with the Pinephone it does not connect automatically when switched on even if you press its bluetooth button. You have to go into the Pinephone bluetooth settings and tell it to connect the keyboard.
I had the Pinephone hooked up to USB power so it did not go into sleep mode. I don't know if the phone going to sleep would disconnect bluetooth or how badly the bluetooth connection drains the battery.
I did not actively use the keyboard during the test, I simply connected it. (I would consider actually typing on the thing for an hour to be torture.) At the end of the hour I went to use the keyboard and it worked. The keyboard had gone to sleep, however as soon as a key was pressed it was working, it did not disconnect from the Pinephone.
As previously mentioned I have not moved to Mobian trixie. I only use the Pinephone for telephone calls and that feature is working stably with bookworm so I have not risked updating. I have no idea if changes in trixie would affect this keyboard. For that matter I can't speak for any operating system distributions working with this keyboard other than Mobian bookworm.
Although the keyboard had been previously paired with the Pinephone it does not connect automatically when switched on even if you press its bluetooth button. You have to go into the Pinephone bluetooth settings and tell it to connect the keyboard.
I had the Pinephone hooked up to USB power so it did not go into sleep mode. I don't know if the phone going to sleep would disconnect bluetooth or how badly the bluetooth connection drains the battery.
I did not actively use the keyboard during the test, I simply connected it. (I would consider actually typing on the thing for an hour to be torture.) At the end of the hour I went to use the keyboard and it worked. The keyboard had gone to sleep, however as soon as a key was pressed it was working, it did not disconnect from the Pinephone.
As previously mentioned I have not moved to Mobian trixie. I only use the Pinephone for telephone calls and that feature is working stably with bookworm so I have not risked updating. I have no idea if changes in trixie would affect this keyboard. For that matter I can't speak for any operating system distributions working with this keyboard other than Mobian bookworm.
