piKey — A PSP Keyboard Driver

**Camelot** · March 21st, 2007, 00:14

Originally Posted by Cloudhunter

... And even that won't work, as the PSP doesn't support being a host for devices.

The only other way to connect keyboards other than IR, is through the headphone remote serial port, as mentioned in the description... Currently, you can connect to a PC through that port and send text.

This is awesome news though! Can't wait to eventually get an IR keyboard or a SIO cable to test this out

Cloudy

Thanks for clearing that up for me, thats something I did not know. I'm probably just going to get an IR keyboard anyway.

**gunntims0103** · March 21st, 2007, 00:22

Great news, now all i need is a IR keyboard.

**acn010** · March 21st, 2007, 00:32

wait..... you can use a normal keyboard with a usb connector and just plug it in the psp usb port????

**Buddy4point0** · March 21st, 2007, 00:37

Originally Posted by acn010

wait..... you can use a normal keyboard with a usb connector and just plug it in the psp usb port????

no.
im pretty sure you need some special thing that goes in the sqaure spot next to the headphone jack

**E.J.** · March 21st, 2007, 00:37

The only thing i need now is a mini-keyboard that can be plugged into the serial remote port.

**pkmaximum** · March 21st, 2007, 00:44

Man this is great news, now all I have to do is get that fold up Palm IR keyboard, that was shown in a demonstration before. This would be a great way to take notes in school w/o the risk of carrying a laptop, because lets face it, its easier to hold on to a PSP than a laptop =P

**acn010** · March 21st, 2007, 00:48

ha ha ha...... a noob spanish website members are like yeah... you need a mini usb port to put your keyboard XD i was like wtf? lmao!!!

**califrag** · March 21st, 2007, 01:08

i hate this misconception about the PSP not being able to act as a "host" to usb devices... if that were true then there would be a lot of pissed off PSP-290 (GPS), ChottoShot and Talkman owners... of course the psp can recognize devices through the USB otherwise these items would not exist! We just need to figure out HOW to access them. Deniska has done a great job at getting the PSP-290 data calls worked into his MapThis! program, and I'm sure that finding a way to access other devices is just around the corner... great job on this though and i'm really looking forward to testing this out... once I figure a way ;D

edit - please disregard above statement. Thanks for the clarification Fanjita!

**mavsman4457** · March 21st, 2007, 02:03

This is one of the key things that the PSP has been missing for a long, long time. I have been waiting and waiting and waiting for this to come to light and finally you two have done it. Thank you so much for your hard work. Keep up the great work. Also, I have two questions that harleyg or fanjita may or may not answer if they want to or not, and they both might not even see this question but I will ask anyways. Was this originally part of 0x89 and are there any other components of 0x89 that you plan on releasing as plugins for Dark_AleX's custom firmware? I was always holding out on Dark_AleX's custom firmwares until 0x89 was released but now that it has been cancelled I just hope all of the components can be released. Anyways, thanks again for the great work and I look forward to the works that both of you come out with in the future.