Adding wireless keyboard to HASSIO on PI

Installation Home Assistant OS
21

ok - this is what i have done:

configuration.yaml:

keyboard_remote:

  • device_name: ‘/dev/ttyAMA0’
    type: ‘key_up’

automation.yaml

  • id: 13b1db0a05864e21b7f9c791734a55bb
    alias: Keyboard
    trigger:
    • event_data:
      device_name: “/dev/ttyAMA0”
      key_code: 74
      event_type: keyboard_remote_command_received
      platform: event
      action:
    • data:
      entity_id:
      • switch.light_salon
        service: switch.turn_on

still not working ? what is wrong? ideas?

22

Same situation for me - Running HomeAssistant OS on a Raspberry Pi. ha hardware info finds my device (a USB remote that is basically a USB keyboard but with media keys like mute, increase/decrease volume, etc instead of letters). But regardless of how I configure the keyboard_remote integration, be it via device_name or via device_descriptor, no events get fired when pressing the buttons on my remote (monitored using the Dev Tools Event Monitor with filter set to *). Using evtest on my Linux computer I can monitor the clicks, so it isn’t a hardware fault.

23

Hi, same Problem for me.

Cant get the event fired. Actually i found out, i CAN get it firerd via the integrated Keyboard (running HA on a Pi400). Doesnt matter if i include the Keyboard in the configuration. Yaml or not! But i need it to work with an external Keyboard. did you solve the Problem?