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PostPosted: Wed Jul 16, 2014 4:14 pm    Post subject: Creating an udev rule for a bluetooth keyboard [SOLVED] Reply with quote

Hi!

I'm having trouble creating a udev rule for my bluetooth keyboard. Hope someone here can help me =). To cut right to the problem / culprit, is that the following rule does not seem work:

/etc/udev/rules.d/50-k810.rules:
Code:
KERNEL=="hidraw*", SUBSYSTEM=="hidraw", ATTRS{address}=="00:1F:20:A8:89:8C" \
 RUN+="/opt/bin/k810.sh %p"


A little more background: I have a logitech K810 as my primary keyboard on the HTPC in question (when I need one, actually primarily it's controlled vai a remote control). I need to run an executable to enable the F-keys to work as such by default (without pressing the Fn -key). I can do that manually (so that part is working), but that is a small PITA =).

I got the above udev rule and executable from here. Also there seems to be others struggling with the rule here: http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/144417/making-udev-rule-for-bluetooth-keyboard

But with the above rule, the script is never run AFAICT. I know that since the script should write a log file to /tmp in any case (even if it would be doing something wrong). Here's the contents of the script:

/opt/bin/k810.sh:
Code:
#!/bin/sh
LOGFILE=/tmp/logfilek810sh.log
echo "RUN: at `date` by `whoami` act $ACTION \$1 $1 DEVPATH $DEVPATH DEVNAME $DEVNAME" >> ${LOGFILE}
echo "Setting F-keys on for your K810!"

if [ "$ACTION" == "add" ];
then
    # configure k810 ($DEVPATH) at $DEVNAME.
    /opt/bin/k810_conf -d $DEVNAME -f on
fi



Permissions of the files in question:
Code:
# ls -l /etc/udev/rules.d/50-k810.rules /opt/bin/k810*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   106 2014-06-12 16:48 /etc/udev/rules.d/50-k810.rules
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   304 2014-06-08 01:34 /opt/bin/k810.sh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 13102 2014-06-07 22:05 /opt/bin/k810_conf


Cheers!
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 16, 2014 4:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Heh, well sometimes writing the problem to a forum will bring you to the solution by itself =)

In case someone has the same problem: putting the address in lower case to the rules file solves it! =D

This is how I figured it out: I tried slightly different google search and came up to this:
http://cris.bytesnblades.net/2009/02/20/starting-gpsd-automatically-with-a-bluetooth-gps/

So, I figured I'd try to run udevadm info -a -n /dev/hidraw1:

Code:

  looking at parent device '/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:12.0/usb3/3-3/3-3:1.0/bluetooth/hci0/hci0:43':
    KERNELS=="hci0:43"
    SUBSYSTEMS=="bluetooth"
    DRIVERS==""
    ATTRS{type}=="ACL"
    ATTRS{address}=="00:1f:20:a8:89:8c"


So, the address is shown with the letters in lower case - could it really be such a stupid error???? Previously I had used bluetoothctl to figure out the address (which is the same, but in CAPITALS). And - lo and behold - butting the address in lower case solved it!

Cheers, and thanks for your time!
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