Rii Mini Bluetooth Keyboard,Backlit Wireless Keyboard with IR Learning, Portable Lightweight with Touchpad Compatible with Android TV Box/Mac/Windows/HTPC (2.4G and Bluetooth)

This thing is adorable (translation: smaller than I expected--and I expected pretty small). For the price (Black Friday discount included) I couldn't be happier. In the body of this review, I will note some drawbacks, but I believe most of them are related to the paired devices and thus not to be counted against this Rii keyboard. Pros: - 3 distinct modes. Bluetooth, RF and IR. This keyboard can operate a PC (RF with dongle), my ChromeCast with GoogleTV (Bluetooth), and basic up to 10 functions like power on, volume, source selection for TV or Receiver (IR) - I find the touchpad to be very responsive (although I've read reviews to the contrary). It's not speedy. I prefer a trackball when traversing 3 monitors, but that's more about my setup than this keyboard device. - The keys are also very responsive. I've read at least one review that decries the grid formation of the keys over traditional staggering of a QWERTY keyboard. Honestly, I can't imagine anyone is using this to type their graduate thesis. I find it to be quite sufficient to the casual use for which I believe it was intended. - Smaller than several of my other entertainment system remotes, yet allows me to actually type search text rather than the laborious up, down, left, right, click and repeat process one is usually stuck with using simple navigation keys. - Rechargeable using USB-C which has become the standard. Every other mini keyboard I researched still used USB mini. - Battery life seems adequate so far, but I've only had it 24 hours. If the battery performance is poor, I'll come back and knock a star off from this 5-star review. Cons: - Some of the functions I use the most, Home and Return, involve 2 fingers (and potentially both hands) to operate because they require the Fn-key in combination. However, this is always going to be the case for someone's favorite function given the size of the unit and the subsequent economy of buttons. - The lack of multi-touch on the touchpad can lead to some awkward click and drag combinations when using as a mouse on a PC. - Media App compatibility is the biggest complaint I can levy against this little keyboard remote. This, of course, I'm inclined to lay at the feet of the App programmers rather than this device. After performing the Bluetooth pairing with my ChromeCast with GoogleTV receiver, I've discovered the following instances of glitchy behavior: --While the cursor arrow drawn by using the touchpad will allow activation of anything on the Home screen via tap or mouse-left button, the individual media apps will not acknowledge a mouse click. --The keyboard will go to sleep after a period of time (I believe this to be about 10 minutes). When this happens, the video I'm watching may be affected. On many Apps, this is not the case at all. Max, Disney+, and Paramount+ all remain unaffected. ---AppleTV+ will momentarily drop the video stream to a gray screen and then recover. ---Hulu, however, will pop back to the ChromeCast Home page every time the keyboard goes to sleep or wakes up. In fact, if the keyboard is set to Bluetooth mode, turning the keyboard on or off will immediately shut down the Hulu App completely. As mentioned above, I consider this to be a flaw in those 2 Apps and not this device. In fact, I've found the Hulu App to be rather flakey in several areas. Conclusion: If you want a small convenient way to operate a PC remotely (say for a presentation), easily type in full search text on streaming devices, or simply want to consolidate several remotes into one universal device, this Rii mini keyboard is an excellent and inexpensive choice.

I love this little keyboard for home media servers and set top boxes. It sure beats trying to type on a typical remote control!! The Blutooth pairing and wireless USB work great. I wish it was a tad bigger but even with my big fingers I can do OK. The shift key lettering is a little hard to read but those are the tradeoffs. The convex keys also make it pretty easy to type the correct keys.

I'm using this to control an old android phone to run off my tv and it works good for what I need. I very much love the IR buttons on the backside as they allow me to interact with a 2nd device (the tv) on the fly without needing another remote to do so. Programming the keys were simple and straight forward, I just wish there were a few more buttons to make it truly more functional as only the backside buttons can be programmed to work with the IR. All the keys on the keyboard and IR backside are very responsive and so far the battery life has been great. Also like the option to have backlighting on or off. The other slight drawback is the track pad can be a tad touchy to use. It works fine but it's just so small that there's minimal space to move your finger around on it which can require lifting your finger off and back on to travler further distances on the screen. I think this device is a pretty good choice but it would be absolutly perfect it it was a 1/2" wider and had a few more IR buttons to preset.

Great product for people using their PC from the couch. Has an interesting, almost retro style and feel. I like the fact that I can copy the IR signal from my amplifier's remote control and map it to whatever button I want on the back of the mini keyboard. The 2.4Ghz signal is.. not great but the Bluetooth works very well. I like the function button controls, the button layout and the backlight feature. Only complaint is the track-pad leaves something to be desired. It works well enough but it's a bit small and jank compared to a real laptop's track-pad. It skips a little sometimes and because it is small I can't flick things effortlessly like I can on an actual laptop. It's very much designed to be used with "mouse acceleration" enabled, and since mine is disabled the track-pad is just not accurate enough. I often overshoot the target with the mouse pointer and need to re-adjust. It may take some getting used to. Overall - I really like it. It's not perfect but it IS quite unique and still very functional.

I LOVE LOVE LOVE this little guy. It is so adorable and really quite small for everything it does. The keys are awesome to type on and the trackpad works great. Haven't put it through its paces and honestly I don't have a huge need for it but for the price it is awesome. I am never hunting and pecking an on screen smart TV keyboard to enter username and passwords again! (Yes, some older TVs and apps still make you do that).

The form factor is great for a couch PC, I love being able to control the TV with the built in IR remote. The only thing I wish was better is that the range is kinda bad for where I’m sitting on the couch about 18ft away. When I hold the left side of the keyboard I get missed inputs and like 15 repeated characters. And this is with the 2.4GHz dongle. I even used the extender cable it came with so that the remote is line of sight with the dongle. I have to hold it kinda weird or sit uncomfortably close to the TV to stop the issues. The swipe left and right gesture on the trackpad to go back and forward in a browser is kinda sensitive as well. And it’s a little small for scrolling comfortably. You need to 2 finger scroll, the blue line in the center does not scroll like you would expect. I I wish there was a couple more IR buttons just 2 more so I can map volume control as well as the menu, input, and back buttons of the TV remote. Rii has my favorite style of clicky and orthographic layout to their mini keyboards though I realize for comfortable typing the keyboard should have symmetrical spacing for the hands to hold. My only wish for this is if Rii made a controller style keyboard, trackpad, IR remote combo with a scroll wheel. I know they have similar things to what I’m describing but those are missing the plastic buttons style and the the IR remote usually. overall somewhat satisfied with this device but there’s lots of room for improvement.

This is my daily driver now, it's smooth and efficient and long lasting battery on Reno a single charge. I am no longer using multiple remotes in my hands to navigate to something to watch. I have generic branded FireTV via IR/BT mode to this remote, and the 2.4ghz on my home theater dreamquest miniPC running windows 11. Features: BT & 2.4G IR programming for: ARROW KEYS (UP / DOWN. / LEFT / RIGHT) 4 CUSTOM KEYS (HOME / BACK / TV VOL+ / TV VOL- ) POWER BUTTON IR distance is fine but narrow, so might need to point at TV directly, perhapse IR learning may be little off (i just try reprogram it with different distance to see if any better - did for improve me) Summary: I have so far watched over 100 episodes of tvs and movies, over 2mo in using it and works very well on a single battery charge. The IR remote range range is fine, but pin hole IR out put is little shallow / narrow so keep it direct to TV (close up or far away works for me). Although I noticed it's how clean the programming of your old remote IR light clean signal is effected by the "distance" when is placed face to face against each other for IR programming, I noticed some programmed keys failed on first attempt, but subsequent re-programming with some distance between the remotes the trial and error makes improvement. I do wish the IR remote could have 4 more keys to customize, oh well not a show stopper. Don't settle look alike knock off brands.. I made that mistake many many times. Pay a few dollars extra get this remote, you will not regret it!

Pretty good overall, but the reason I'm giving it two stars is the connectivity is just horrendous. This might as well be a wired device. The build quality is just okay mostly plastic The buttons feel great, however. They have a really nice tactile feel to them. The track pad is trashed. It's basically the size of your thumb. And the deal breaker is the 2.4 GHz and Bluetooth connectivity literally works from up 5 feet away. The price is also pretty high for what you're getting. it's a shame because the buttons felt good and the backside that allows you to control your TV and soundbar was great. programming the IR buttons was the easiest process ever. you just hold down any of the buttons for a few seconds until the light becomes solid and you point your other remote at it and push button you want it to learn and it's that simple. Really good idea with very poor execution.

Es un buen teclado si lo que buscas es usarlo exclusivamente por Bluetooth o con su dongle de 2,4 GHz. Sin embargo, es importante considerar que el puerto USB-C solo funciona para alimentación eléctrica y no para transmisión de datos, por lo que el teclado no es detectado como periférico al conectarlo por cable. Es una lástima porque el tamaño es ideal para lo que yo buscaba, especialmente en situaciones donde necesito usar el teclado antes de entrar al sistema operativo.

Great! Works with my Samsung TV out-of-the-box, learned the ON, home, direction and return from the original remote and boom! It is now my all-in-one remote!

2.4ghz doesn't work unless you are very near. Bluetooth not able to be paired for Win 11