Recommendations for bluetooth keyboards?

jell

I'm looking to get a full-size (or close to) bluetooth keyboard to use with the Pi 3. Any recommendations on ones that work well and are easy to setup?

Fruitybit

@jell I've got a full sized ex-work Microsoft keyboard/mouse combo plus one of the tiny hand held ones. Both just plug and play. No setup needed!

LowRes

Logitech K380

Works really good and easy to connect. I'm using this on retropie 4.3 and really glad I got it

flynn

I have had some luck and some disappointment with various BT keyboards working properly with RetroPie. The first two I bought worked perfectly, so I ordered a couple more from the same vendor, while they did pair successfully, the function keys wouldn't work. I noticed even through they looked identical, the model numbers were different, so I requested the model numbers that I knew specifically worked. Long story short and 8 keyboards later, they were unable to deliver any fully functioning keyboards... so I widened the net and ordered eight more from various vendors, four of which provided me with compatible keyboards. Here they are on Amazon:

$14 CyberTech Bluetooth Ultra-Thin
$15 Fintie Ultra Slim Wireless Bluetooth
$20 Anker Bluetooth Ultra-Slim
$18 Jelly Comb Universal Backlit

Clearly most of these are the same models from China with company branding, but it seems the programming or on-board drivers are slightly different per company too.

Also, if you're having difficulty pairing your keyboards, here is a little CNET article on how to setup bluetooth directly in Linux (vs. the RetroPie setup GUI). The GUI method was spotty for me but the Linux method worked 100% of the time! (note: it was sometimes necessary to slip a "trust xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx" between the "pair" and "connect" commands)

My work/fail test was to be in EmulationStation and hit the F4 key. If it doesn't exit EmulationStation it was a fail. (some keyboards required a two key press of FN and F4). If you are already in the Linux shell you can type "showkey -a" and then press F4, compare the result with a USB wired keyboard press of F4. If they are not the same, fail the keyboard.