Bluetooth dongle advice for UEFI access

[termathor]

Hi there,

I need to have keyboard access to my TV gaming system for UEFI, and today, due to the UEFI supporting only USB KB, I'm doing via a very inconvenient local USB KB.
Now I have a Bluetooth KB (Logitech K810) which works fine but of course needs an OS (Linux or Windows) and relevant drivers (also an MB which supports BT, of course).

So, in order to get BT KB access to UEFI, I bought an ASUS USB-BT400, thinking it would exhibit the BT KB as USB, causing UEFI to finally work, and the pairing would be handled via an ASUS tool, for the handshake.
Much to my surprise, such was apparently not the case, and the BT400 uses the BT Windows layer, therefore can't work with UEFI.

Just wondering, how do people make a BT KB work with an UEFI which supports only USB ?

 

[Calculagator]

The only way I know to make this work is to use a Mac. There may be some other motherboard manufacturers that build bluetooth support into their UEFI, but it's not typical.
You can use a non-bluetooth wireless keyboard or there may be some hybrid wireless keyboards that can connect to their own dongle without a bluetooth stack.

 

[termathor]

Thanks, so I take it, there is no BT dongle out there that totally masquerade as USB ...

It sucks a bit because I love the BT KB, but I think I'm gonna go the non-bluetooth wireless KB route. Also, it would remove the problematic of dual-booting with BT.

Also, using a Mac is not an option. This is a gaming machine, PC parts built. I love my Macs, but they're simply not for gaming.

Thanks.