How to get Rii mini BT keyboard to work under 16.04

I have connected the bluetooth keyboard Rii mini i8+ to my Ubuntu 16.04 running on a NUC. I can find the keyboard, connect it, but it simply wont act as keyboard or mouse/trackpad.

Tried it on different hardware like Win7 and Firestick, works there like a charm.

Any idea?

Many thanks in advance, Kazchen

Kazchen,

I also have a Rii BT Keyboard that I tried connecting to Ubuntu 16.04. I ran into the same exact issues as you and went down the rabbit hole of messing with my bluetooth settings which is suggested on all forums regarding this question. However, it has nothing to do with bluetooth at all (even though I received a minor bluetooth error when connecting to the device). If you can press some of your numbers on the number key row and a few of the letters on the right side, such as Y or U, and see if it responds and gives you input. The input should be a random number between 1-9 that does not correspond to what is printed on your keys. If you can reproduce that exactly, here are the steps to fix the issue:

• Plug in a secondary keyboard to USB (do not disconnect bluetooth)
• Numlock should be automatically turned on. Turn it off.
• Voila! May require restart.