PinePhone keyboard experiences (part II)?
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Here is PinePhone keyboard experiences (part I)
https://forums.ubports.com/topic/8067/pinephone-keyboard-experiences/10?_=1718704203016
Thanks for sharing your experience with the Pinephone keyboard. When I bought a Pinephone keyboard some time ago, I had Ubuntu Touch on it, but it was not supported yet, so I had to install postmarketOS in my PP where it was supported. So if I understand you correctly it is now supported also in Ubuntu Touch?
Thanks for sharing the specialities of the Pinephone keyboard. What I personally experienced with it that it is a bit difficult to charge the Pinephone with it. The PP keyboard has a built in power bank for the PP and the keyboard, but no charging indicator.
Which connector to choose to charge both the PP and the keyboard? Whatever I tried, the indicator never showed that the PP is complely charged, either with 1 or 2 usb-c charging cable connected to both the PP and the PP keyboard.
The only way I managed so that the charching indicator of my PP showed after some time that the PP is completely charged was to seperate the PP from the PP keyboard and charge those separately.
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P Peter Gamma referenced this topic on 18 Jun 2024, 10:08
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@Peter-Gamma I only ever use the charge point on the keyboard to be honest which does show up on UT as charging. That is with a keyboard that is only a few months old and on the PPP running UT. I need to put UT back on the PP to check but it should work with the latest images. Will let you know when I put UT back on, it currently has PM on it.
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@Lakotaubp Thanks for the answer. I have also postmarketOS on mine. I would prefer Ubuntu Touch. But a feature I urgendly need is to write to the external SD card, and I have not tested it but as far as I know this works easily with postmarketOS and is somehow limited on Ubuntu Touch
A only solution which I could imagine is to install Ubuntu Touch to the external SD card and save my Abiword files also there, and then pull it from the Pinephone and stick it into my PC. But this is somehow a work around which does not convince me, so I will stay with postmarketOS where the PP keyboard works fine.
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@Peter-Gamma Good place for discussion and info is here https://t.me/utonpine if your not there already.
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@Lakotaubp thank you for the invitation, I will have look at it.
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I bought a PinePhone Pro soon after the Explorer Edition was available to support the cause, but of course the software support wasn't that great back then. I just pulled it out of the drawer and installed the latest version of TOW Boot and Ubuntu Touch and so far it seems to be working fairly well. However I had also purchased the keyboard cover in order to use the PinePhone as a pocket workstation. However the keyboard does not appear to work. The case will charge but the keys are unresponsive. Has anybody gotten the keyboard case to work with Ubuntu Touch?
After consulting [the FAQ] (https://xnux.eu/pinephone-keyboard/faq.html) I tried to shim the pogo pads, and I really though I was going to break the case in the process. That didn't seem to have any effect, so the next item on the list says to install the pinephone-keyboard driver. Is that step necessary with Ubuntu Touch, and if so am I going to have to compile it from source or is there a package somewhere I can install?
Basically any advice anybody has with getting this to work would be appreciated.
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I had a Pinephone keyboard with Ubuntu Touch. Then I bough the Pinpephone keyboard, but it did not work with Ubuntu Touch. Ubuntu Touch was not on the list of the supported distros in the Pinephone keyboard offer in the Pine64 shop. So I had to flash postmarketOS on it. This was some time ago.
But I thought the keyboard should work now right out of the box with Ubuntu Touch?
Lakotaubp wrote 28 days ago @Peter-Gamma
«The keyboard works with the PPP and as far as I know should work with the PP. «
https://forums.ubports.com/topic/8067/pinephone-keyboard-experiences/10?_=1718704203016
Such a pity that the Pinephone keyboard is not available anymore. Please write in the Pine64 forum to bring it back!
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@Peter-Gamma Keyboard does work with the PP. Checked the other day.
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@Lakotaubp Thank you for your support for the Pinephone Keyboard. Unfortunately I lack of support to fight for the Pinephone Keyboard in the Pine64 forum. So I invite you the help me to fight that is comes back. I invested a lot of time in Office solutions for the Pinephone. These basically only make sense with the Pinephone Keyboard.