tiny-pilot / tiny-pilot/tinypilot
Support keyboard-only mode
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Description
TinyPilot registers itself as a multifunction USB device, but some BIOS software fails to recognize multifunction USB.
To improve compatibility with those devices, TinyPilot settings should allow the user to switch to "keyboard only mode" which would change the TinyPilot USB gadget to impersonate a simple USB keyboard instead.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reading scripts/usb-gadget/init-usb-gadget and then trace how TinyPilot settings are represented and applied. Confirm how the current multifunction gadget is configured, and define done as a user-selectable keyboard-only mode that makes the gadget impersonate a simple USB keyboard.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- python, shell
- Domain
- embedded-iot
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100