Difficulty entering HA credentials

[MaxVRAM]

As a new Immersive Home user on Quest 3, I tried to enter my Home Assistant URL with 3 different methods before realising it could only be filled by pasting text copied from another app on the headset:

• Virtual keyboard: I tried long pressing the shift and semicolon keys in case the colon was hidden.
• Bluetooth keyboard: The keypresses aren't sent to Immersive Home for some reason.
• SideQuest copy/paste: Text pasted from SideQuest also wasn't making it to the app.

I finally managed to enter the URL using these steps:

1. Open Meta Browser and paste the URL from SideQuest into the address bar
2. Select and then cut the text from the address bar
3. Return to Immersive Home to paste the text in the field
4. Repeat for the token

I understand that the token is far too long to enter by hand, but a complete keyboard and handling keystrokes/pasting from input devices and SideQuest would reduce the barrier of entry.

Also, nice work on kicking off a great open-source project. I'm interested in seeing where this goes.

[Nitwel]

We have a setup guide here, but I agree that it is somewhat hidden at the moment. In the future, I'll implement the setup tutorial right into the app.

Virtual keyboard: I tried long pressing the shift and semicolon keys in case the colon was hidden.

I'm not really following what you mean by that.

Bluetooth keyboard: The keypresses aren't sent to Immersive Home for some reason.

That's definitely something I should support soon. Even though I don't have a keyboard to test this with, I should try to implement it anyways.

SideQuest copy/paste: Text pasted from SideQuest also wasn't making it to the app.

Haven't heard of that yet. Will look into if it makes sense to add this way of setting it up too.

I think the best way would be to host a QR code generator on our website which you could then scan with the headset to have a seamless setup, but for that Meta needs to implement a QR Code scanner first.

Also thank you very much for the feedback!

[matthewgutz]

I ran into the same issue where I could not enter a colon.
There is no physical colon button, only semicolon which is shown in both the lower and uppcase keyboard state.

Here are some pictures to help illustrate the issue.

[Nitwel]

Oh haha, I just noticed that yesterday too, thanks for the report!

[MaxVRAM]

We have a setup guide here, but I agree that it is somewhat hidden at the moment. In the future, I'll implement the setup tutorial right into the app.

Actually I couldn't access the guide when I was initially setting it up. I think your website was down briefly, so just tried different methods to enter the server info.

Virtual keyboard: I tried long pressing the shift and semicolon keys in case the colon was hidden.

I'm not really following what you mean by that.

Sometimes virtual keyboards (like on phones) have additional layers of characters you can switch between. I couldn't find a colon on your virtual keyboard so I tried holding shift and other keys in case the character was hidden on another layer.

Bluetooth keyboard: The keypresses aren't sent to Immersive Home for some reason.

That's definitely something I should support soon. Even though I don't have a keyboard to test this with, I should try to implement it anyways.

Happy to test it if you end up adding that. Since getting a Quest 3 I've found passthrough + physical keyboard really practical, especially for MR apps coming from web or desktop.

SideQuest copy/paste: Text pasted from SideQuest also wasn't making it to the app.

Haven't heard of that yet. Will look into if it makes sense to add this way of setting it up too.

Yeah, the SideQuest app has a text box you can push to the connected HMD. It beats using a virtual keyboard to enter 20 random characters to log into something on the headset and you use a password manager.

This possibly enters text using the same method as a Bluetooth keyboard, so enabling one may enable the other.

I think the best way would be to host a QR code generator on our website which you could then scan with the headset to have a seamless setup, but for that Meta needs to implement a QR Code scanner first.

Nice thinking. That would definitely be the ideal solution 🤞

Also thank you very much for the feedback!