Wireless keyboard

Thanks. The video still does not point out though how he connected the keyboard to the TV. After googling for it myself, I found that I would also have to transfer the USB dongle that came with the keyboard, to a USB port of the TV. Not very convenient, but I'll try. At least if I could get a second USB dongle that I could just keep in the TV. It would be much simpler if the connection was a pure Bluetooth or direct WiFi that would require no USB dongle. But I didn't think of it when I bought this darn keyboard.

You need not only a USB port, but the device will need to be running an ope rating system that supports a driver for the device.

I would love to see a universal standard for such devices. I find Bluetoot h to have issues with lag when used with a mouse. The closest there is to a standard is the Logitech protocol which is proprietary, but used with vir tually all of their devices and they have the lion's share of the market. Still, no one builds that into their products to support the mice or keyboa rds without a plugin dongle.

Silly of the TV maker to not include USB for devices even if just memory st icks.

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Actually, my TV does include USB, so I was able to stick that Logitech dongle in it and try the keyboard. And it worked immediately. So I was able to bring up the Google browser and type into the search bar as if I was typing on my laptop.

Thanks, that's the info I was hoping for, just didn't know what keyword to use for the search. Good to know that I can actually buy another Unified Receiver dongle that I can permanently use with the TV set.

Any idea what OS is running on your TV? How about your toaster. Will the mouse work with that? lol

Not mine, seems to just work whatevdr I plug in to. I haven't tried in a MAC but really - it is not goig to work. But Linux, Windows back to 98SE at least, in fact that is how old it is.

It amazes me how shit used to just work, plug that thing into Win 10 and it will need five updates that take a week and 16 reboots.

Bur in XP it just works, doesn't even go through the "Drivers successfully...shit". It just says "New hardware detected" and it works right then and there.

But see, this is progress.

There is no reason a wireless KB and mouse can't put the same codes into that USB port that a regular KB and mouse would.

Well except they want to f*ck you around. In XP or Linux you just plug it in and it works.

Try it on an XP box, watch it say "New Hardware Found" and just work, not even "Drivers installed".

They want to f*ck you around.

They save about 20c by using a proprietry link.

Try plugging it into the TVs USB

Then how come the keyboard is working in an old PC BIOS ? And that is a GREAT advantage over Bluetooth.

And reduced latency. BlueTooth is actually pretty dumb for this application, especially mice, because of its paranoid error retry policy, completely counter-productive for mouse motion.

Too bad this Unifier stick does not work with wireless headphones where latency compared to the watched video can be really annoying.