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I'm having a couple different issues with my dinovo mini. I had it working on a XBMC-Live install just fine, but now that I've moved it to a machine that has a regular Ubuntu 11.10 plus XBMC it's not always working right. Often times to get it to reconnect I have to run hidd --search and press the connect button. And it seems to behave sporadically with respect to the various special keys and even at times the keyboard itself. Sometimes I can use the play button, other times I can't.
Anybody know of some good steps to take to get this configured right and set up so it doesn't drop connection?
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Well I figured out that XBMC-Live uses hal which is not included with Ubuntu anymore. I used apt to install hal then I removed bluez and manually moved anything involving bluetooth from the /etc directory. After that I rebooted and hal properly detected the keyboard. The special keys aren't working, I may look into that further.
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Well it got to the point last night where it would barely do anything for me, so I hit the connect button and it synced up real quick and then all the keys magically worked. It'll be interesting to see what happens tonight.
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It's still behaving poorly. Now it's either all working or not at all and won't connect. Tonight I used it for a quite a while, an hour or two I'd guess, then while navigating a menu it just quit responding.
I'm guessing it's some sort of bluetooth configuration issue, but it doesn't seem like there is anything here about how it's supposed to be setup.
