5.0 out of 5 stars Positively Delightful

C. · November 29, 2023

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.

5.0 out of 5 stars Works Great, Good Compatibility between devices, responsive controls.

R. · April 23, 2025

owned for roughly a week.Works well with everything, battery seems to last through an entire day of heavy use typing.Touchpad works well, better than most touchscreens.The backlighting is also nice and easy toggle, though finding that button in the dark isn't very easy.Overall this seems like a great value, thought once glance and you can tell, it aint water resistant and it was built as cheaply as they could. Still i can't fault the quality for the price and it's performance so far. Now if it's still working this good in a year, then it's worth buying again.

4.0 out of 5 stars Solid device, nice add to the tool kit

S.C. · August 5, 2025

Works as intended - connectivity to USB and bluetooth was good. Keyboard feels good.Trackpad was fine, just felt it was ergonomically not quite right when holding the device, trying to move the mouse, then typing on the keyboard.Downside was not having a spot to store the USB dongle, which would have been nice, since my use case is as a portable mini keyboard/mouse combo.

5.0 out of 5 stars Great little device!

E.K. · June 26, 2025

Keyboard works great on my computer and iPad. Not all the keys on it work with them, such as the media player or task manager. But I was able to reprogram that in my devices settings and I’ve had no problems since. I see a lot of people saying the ir training doesn’t work. I got mine to work fine with my Roku tv. It took a little bit to get the remote part programmed but if you’re patient it’s possible. I had to disconnect my Roku remote from tv and then train it. Otherwise the Roku remote was using rf instead of ir. So if it’s connected it won’t train and I’m sure a lot of other remotes are like this. Overall great product. Just takes some time to learn it.

3.0 out of 5 stars Convenient, but trackpad is a little glitchy

J. · December 18, 2023

There are some great features here - it's small but usable, and I love that this model has both "RF" based *and* Bluetooth connectivity. But I don't love that this one doesn't have a slot to stick the USB dongle into when it's not being used. There's no question that it'll get lost soon! But I do love the learning IR keys on the back, which makes this an amazing companion for my smart TV.One negative is that the trackpad seems to be super twitchy, i.e. not always very responsive. I have a feeling that there's some radio frequency interference going on, maybe from nearby USB 3.0 ports?On of my fav use cases is to pair this with a USB-based HDMI capture device as a quick way to troubleshoot my otherwise headless Raspberry Pis.