Why? My friend needed a way to use his Bluetooth mouse and keyboard on a PC with Bluetooth disabled due to policy restrictions. This tool acts as a bridge, relaying Bluetooth input over USB. It also lets you use Bluetooth peripherals with older devices that only support USB input.
Tech: Written in Go, optimized for Raspberry Pi Zero W.
I love HN’s community and often lurk here—I’m hoping this project is useful or at least sparks some interesting discussions. Feedback and contributions are welcome!
Out of curiosity, do you think this concept could be extended to other common bluetooth use cases, such as wireless headphones/speakers, or file transfers over bluetooth to mobile devices, or are the audio/file transfer/etc stacks too far removed from the HID stack for that to cleanly translate?
Great question. I can see this being fairly easily extendable to other HID devices and even modifying their behaviour slightly (e.g. remapping a key) but audio stack sounds like (no pun intended) a different beast altogether. A buddy of mine had a similar question around connecting his BT gamepad and headset to play PS games on PC so I'll be looking into this more.