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Hi all, I'm new to raspberry pi and I have a little problem. I bought this little bluetooth keyboard, and later a bluetooth dongle for my pi and have installed the BlueZ software(By the way, I'm running Raspbian) and when I try to pair the keyboard, it asks for a pin, but the instructions for the keyboard list no pin for pairing. I don't know if this would help, but when I pair it with my iPad, my iPad tells me "enter this pin 5577 on the bluetooth keyboard then press enter". That works just fine, but the pin is different everytime I pair it to my ipad. I have tried just putting in random four-digit codes on the pi, but it just sits there " pairing" and eventually times out. Any ideas on how to get around the pin?

Where are you being asked to enter the PIN? Typing it on the Bluetooth keyboard or on a different keyboard already connected to the RPi?

http://elinux.org/RPi_Bluetooth_keyboard_setup

The two most common PINs hardcoded into Bluetooth kit are 0000 and 1234.

The PIN prompt says to just enter the pin, and no specification on where to type it in, though I can only type on a USB connected keyboard as the BT one hasn't connected yet and doesn't do anything if I try to type the pin in on the BT keyboard. Also, I have tried both 0000 and 1234 with no luck.

Thank you for the help,
BluRazPi

You might try pairing from the command line with this command:

Well so I tried that command, but it didn't do anything. What is it supposed to do?