For the impatient, the important bit is this:

DELETE channel,program FROM channel NATURAL LEFT JOIN program WHERE program.title IS NULL;

Setting the device up to work with Debian Etch is fairly straightforward once you know what to do

Obviously, you need a motherboard with built-in Bluetooth or a USB Bluetooth receiver. Once you have that, lets install the software you’ll need:

apt-get install bluez-utils bluez-gnome

Now we need to figure out the Bluetooth address of the keyboard:

user@host:~$ hcitool scan
Scanning ...
        00:23:41:D4:42:78       laptop
        00:27:E2:A1:3F:E5       Apple Wireless Keyboard

Now that you have the Bluetooth address of the keyboard, lets modify the following lines in /etc/default/bluetooth:

HIDD_ENABLED=1
HIDD_OPTIONS="--master --connect $(bluetooth addr) --server"

Next you’ll add a new section to /etc/bluetooth/hcid.conf for the keyboard:

device $(bluetooth addr) {
    name "Apple Wireless Keyboard";
    auth enable;
    encrypt enable;
}

At this point you can pair the keyboard. Since I use fluxbox on my MythTV frontend computers I manually start the required applets, etc.

1. Start window manager
2. As the logged in user, run “bluetooth-applet”
3. Power cycle the Bluetooth keyboard
4. As root, execute “hidd –connect $(keyboard addr)
5. Type a PIN number on bluetooth keyboard (i.e. 1234) then hit return
6. The bluetooth applet will start flashing in the window manager.
7. Click the bluetooth applet and enter the same PIN in the dialog that pops up

That should be it. You now have a working wireless keyboard :-)

If anyone knows of a way to do this entirely on the command line, bypassing the window manager and bluetooth-applet entirely, I’d love to hear it.

Enjoy!

Be aware that I have not actually used the MythTV server portion on Mac OS X. I do use this MythFrontend build on a regular basis however.

MythFrontend 0.20.0.12662
MythTV 0.20.12662