[fprint] Microsoft Modern Keyboard with Fingerprint ID

[Igor Filatov]

Sorry for a bit of off-topic but it looks like the new ms keyborad as a
small touch sensor which is unreliable with the current matching algo.
That's the problem we really need competent people and/or sponsorship for
first. Even if someone writes a driver for that kb, the experience will
still be so-so.

On Mon, May 21, 2018 at 10:58 PM Julien Nicoulaud <
julien.nicoulaud at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
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