Hello fellow Perl Monks, i am building a Program that is installed on a headless embedded pc (Soekris 4801). The Unit has only a USB Port, to which i want to connect a Keyboard. I would like my Program to be able to read whatever is entered in there, so i can process it. Of course, since there is no screen, and noone logged in using the USB attached Keyboard, you cant just ask for input using <STDIN>. I need to read directly from the Keyboard Device, but what i have further down will simply generate some garbled Output as soon i start typing away on the keyboard that i want to read from. Same as if one would do `cat /dev/yourkeyboarddevice` , its not working that way.

Can anyone please tell me how to read directly from a Keyboard Device? Thanks a lot and best regards! 
#!/usr/bin/perl

use warnings;
use strict;
use Term::ReadKey;

# read a char directly from a keyboard via /dev/wskbd1
open(my $fh, '<', '/dev/wskbd1') or die "Couldn't open Keyboard\n";

ReadMode(5,$fh);
my $key = ReadLine(0, $fh);
print "You entered $key\n";
ReadMode('normal',$fh);

close($fh);

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In reply to Reading directly from a keyboard device, not simply <STDIN> by overrider

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