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Adafruit Bluefruit LE Micro iOS control for iBooks
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To control iBooks, you can activate VoiceOver, mute it (as you don't actually want voice), | |
select the page progress bar, and then use up/down keyboard buttons. | |
You can set Settings→General→Accessibility→Accessibility Shortcut = VoiceOver to set | |
triple-click of Home to (de-)activate VoiceOver. | |
AT+BLEHIDCONTROLKEY=0x0223 # Sends iOS Home button | |
AT+BLEHIDCONTROLKEY=0x30 # Sends iOS Power button | |
AT+BLEHIDCONTROLKEY=0xb8 # Sends iOS Show Keyboard (Eject) | |
AT+BLEHIDCONTROLKEY=0xb0 # Sends iOS Play | |
AT+BLEHIDCONTROLKEY=0xb1 # Sends iOS Pause | |
AT+BLEHIDCONTROLKEY=0xb3 # Sends iOS FFwd / Next | |
AT+BLEHIDCONTROLKEY=0xb4 # Sends iOS Rewind / Previous | |
AT+BLEHIDCONTROLKEY=0xe2 # Sends iOS toggle Mute | |
AT+BLEHIDCONTROLKEY=0x0221 # Sends iOS Search | |
... or it turns out HOME, PLAYPAUSE, SEARCH, etc. also work | |
AT+BLEKEYBOARDCODE=00-00-52 # Starts Up | |
AT+BLEKEYBOARDCODE=00-00-51 # Starts Down | |
AT+BLEKEYBOARDCODE=00-00-50 # Starts Left | |
AT+BLEKEYBOARDCODE=00-00-4F # Starts Right | |
AT+BLEKEYBOARDCODE=00-00-4B # Starts PgUp | |
AT+BLEKEYBOARDCODE=00-00-4E # Starts PgDn | |
AT+BLEKEYBOARDCODE=00-00 # Stop | |
http://www.freebsddiary.org/APC/usb_hid_usages.php | |
https://learn.adafruit.com/bluefruit-le-micro-atmega32u4-microcontroller-usb-bluetooth-le-in-one/ble-services | |
I've sent an Enhancement Request to Apple, as there's no reason why iBooks shouldn't | |
support Keyboard controls out-of-the-box (ie. without Accessibility activated) | |
Accessibility functions are excessively inaccessible, ironically: you need to do | |
fiddly stuff to get iBooks in a state where it can be used with Accessibility functions. | |
Ideally, iBooks would recognise the standard Skip Forward/Back media buttons, but I can | |
imagine some users would like to control music while reading. Personally, I'd make that | |
a configurable setting, but that's not really Appleish. | |
Regardless, no reason why it couldn't accept Keyboard Up/Down/Left/Right or PgUp/PgDn | |
anyway. It'd be good if it accepted whatever keycodes common wireless presenter remotes | |
use, as then no hacking would be necessary at all. |
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