[fprint] Microsoft Modern Keyboard with Fingerprint ID

[Julien Nicoulaud]

Thanks,

It looks like it uses a in-house protocol for automatic bluetooth
pairing, so it would probably be challenging to add support for this
keyboard in bluetooth mode:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/966097/microsoft-modern-keyboard-with-ubuntu

Anyway, if you (or anyone competent) are interested in working on
this, I can "sponsor" you by buying you one.

Cheers,
Julien

2018-05-11 13:13 GMT+02:00 Bastien Nocera <hadess at hadess.net>:
> On Thu, 2018-05-10 at 20:54 +0200, Julien Nicoulaud wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> The supported devices list
>> (https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/fprint/libfprint/Supported
>> _devices/)
>> has "MicrosoftKeyboard with Fingerprint Reader" as supported, but it
>> also says "Last edited Fri 13 Sep 2013", so I'm not sure...
>
> That was a wired USB keyboard. I'm pretty sure it looked like this:
> https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41JPVB3RF9L.jpg
>
>> Is this keyboard supported ?
>> https://www.microsoft.com/accessories/en-us/products/keyboards/microsoft-modern-keyboard-with-fingerprint-id
>
> This is a Bluetooth/USB keyboard, likely a completely different one. I
> have no idea how the Bluetooth fingerprint reader would work, but it's
> something I'll keep in mind while adding support for more than just USB
> devices to libfprint.
>
> Cheers