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Re: Keychron announces first open-source firmware for gaming mice

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Post by DuncanCoffee »

pastel8739 wrote: post #135
stasomatic wrote: post #106

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think that Keychron is a meme brand surfing on the long tail of custom drops. I have a couple of them a Q1 Pro something, a K* whatever. They are just decent keyboards, a middle of the road. The constant accidental invocation of flashing lights is annoying and then you have to cycle through the presets. Not unique enough for geeks. Their marketing is good. My Moonlander is gathering dust, can't find time to put it…

> QWERTY is hard to quit Is your moonlander not QWERTY? Can’t you just change the layout, if not? Or do you mean the Ortholinear layout is hard to get used to? I’ve been wanting to buy a moonlander…

I think he meant that the left side has QWERT and the right one has the Y

Re: Keychron announces first open-source firmware for gaming mice

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Post by DuncanCoffee »

thenthenthen wrote: post #160
hack1312 wrote: post #140

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Hmu (email in profile) if you’re in the US and want to get rid of the moon lander; I really enjoy my Voyager want to try out the Moonlander. That EPOMAKER reminds me of my Leopold Topre keyboard.

Avoid EPOMAKER, they are super buggy in my experience (losing connection, requiring weekly reflashing of firmware).

Mine hates the P button. Sometimes it will not react to it. Sometimes It wil repppeat it two or three times. But I love the aesthetic of the pastel colors, the volume sphere is cool and the typing feeling is great. I dropped my keychron k2 and it stopped working via usb, but charging still works. If I were able to fix it maybe (maybe) I'd switch back to it, in the end I prefer having a reliable keyboard.

Re: Keychron announces first open-source firmware for gaming mice

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Post by DuncanCoffee »

Crossing my fingers for an open source MMO mouse. While many linux solutions exists which allow you to use the side buttons macro on board, and sometimes to create new ones, Corsair had a feature where the side buttons template switched based on the foreground window, I loved always having the correct one for firefox, intellij and even games.

Re: Keychron announces first open-source firmware for gaming mice

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Post by igl »

stasomatic wrote: post #106
jchw wrote: post #8

A bit ago I accidentally bought a Keychron keyboard that didn't have QMK support, but then found that someone had ported it anyway, and I was able to flash it and fix some problems I had (the main one being that it seems like the default firmware only scans a single row of keys while asleep, possibly to save energy, but I want any keypress to wake the computer.) Maybe it's not perfect, but the community around open s…

I think that Keychron is a meme brand surfing on the long tail of custom drops. I have a couple of them a Q1 Pro something, a K* whatever. They are just decent keyboards, a middle of the road. The constant accidental invocation of flashing lights is annoying and then you have to cycle through the presets. Not unique enough for geeks. Their marketing is good. My Moonlander is gathering dust, can't find time to put it…

I had keyboards upwards of $200 with a very nice design but they have their Bluetooth switch underneath the keycaps ... and usually don't ship ISO versions. What keychron is delivering for the price is just amazing.

Re: Keychron announces first open-source firmware for gaming mice

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Post by nijave »

seba_dos1 wrote: post #13
nijave wrote: post #9

Hopefully better than their QMK fork. They force push over their branch in their fork each new release effectively erasing history of the last version... Of course there's no change log anywhere either...

> effectively erasing history of the last version Does that mean they remove any release tags as well?

Iirc there are no release tags, they build off the tip of the branch

Actually it's their zmk fork, not qmk https://github.com/Keychron/zmk/tree/rtl8762g

Re: Keychron announces first open-source firmware for gaming mice

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Post by fodkodrasz »

stasomatic wrote: post #106
jchw wrote: post #8

A bit ago I accidentally bought a Keychron keyboard that didn't have QMK support, but then found that someone had ported it anyway, and I was able to flash it and fix some problems I had (the main one being that it seems like the default firmware only scans a single row of keys while asleep, possibly to save energy, but I want any keypress to wake the computer.) Maybe it's not perfect, but the community around open s…

I think that Keychron is a meme brand surfing on the long tail of custom drops. I have a couple of them a Q1 Pro something, a K* whatever. They are just decent keyboards, a middle of the road. The constant accidental invocation of flashing lights is annoying and then you have to cycle through the presets. Not unique enough for geeks. Their marketing is good. My Moonlander is gathering dust, can't find time to put it…

They have silent keyboards in full size and TKL, with Hu layout. It is really silent, with butterfly mechanics, and was ~50€ with VAT included!

Had a slight bug that the kbd didn't wake until first mouse click, when machine woke from sleep, but a recent receiver firmware update solved it. It is great value for the buck. It is very hard to find really silent keyboards, especially in ISO layouts, and there they have it. Is it customizable? Only in software. Does it have trendy clicky keys or fancy keycaps? No. Is it good for my work, when I sometimes have to work late and not disturb my family? It is great!

ps: I'm not at home, I cannot recall the model, I don't really care for this stuff, this is exactly what I wanted: an unnoticable workhorse with good price-performce .

Re: Keychron announces first open-source firmware for gaming mice

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Post by stasomatic »

ZiiS wrote: post #157
stasomatic wrote: post #106

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think that Keychron is a meme brand surfing on the long tail of custom drops. I have a couple of them a Q1 Pro something, a K* whatever. They are just decent keyboards, a middle of the road. The constant accidental invocation of flashing lights is annoying and then you have to cycle through the presets. Not unique enough for geeks. Their marketing is good. My Moonlander is gathering dust, can't find time to put it…

Keycron are middle of the road decent keyboards, but they are priced much lower then other comparable ones. This makes them much more then a meme brand.

Perhaps "meme" was a wrong choice of words. What I wanted to say, I think, is that they are overrepresented in review coverage than they deserve. Good for them, they are decent keyboards, I didn't say they weren't.

Re: Keychron announces first open-source firmware for gaming mice

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Post by gblargg »

ssl-3 wrote: post #142
jeddy3 wrote: post #96

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I can at least say that it's not endemic. I have two different Keychron keyboards, used in different Linux distros. I have never experienced, and wouldn't even had imagined, such a scenario.

I can imagine it very easily, depending on the keyboard. For example: The Keychron C3 HE I'm typing this on (which I ranted elsehere about lacking the open-source/QMK firmware it is advertised to have) has some peculiar features that it supports. The way they used Hall effect keyswitches lets some fun stuff happen. That fun stuff includes 3 different modes: One is just a keyboard, and the other two modes let the keyb…

> At least one of those game controller modes even lets keys behave as analog inputs.

Now that's a really cool feature I never thought of when considering a Hall-effect keyboard. I knew you could adjust the activation position of each key on some, but analog would be great for games.

Re: Keychron announces first open-source firmware for gaming mice

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Post by stasomatic »

DuncanCoffee wrote: post #161
pastel8739 wrote: post #135

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> QWERTY is hard to quit Is your moonlander not QWERTY? Can’t you just change the layout, if not? Or do you mean the Ortholinear layout is hard to get used to? I’ve been wanting to buy a moonlander…

I think he meant that the left side has QWERT and the right one has the Y

It's both the ortho and the split. The Moonlander is a very nice keyboard, it's worth its BOM, I was simply impatient. I bought it for the cool factor on a whim without realizing time investment required. My email is in my profile, I'm in the states.

Re: Keychron announces first open-source firmware for gaming mice

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Post by RicoElectrico »

benoau wrote: post #29
martinjc wrote: post #26

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I bought a K4 Nordic version, only to learn none of their software supports it. So i can't reconfigure the firmware. The keyboard has swapped Super/Alt (Windows/Alt) on the windows layout which is so annoying. I hate spending money on hardware so i'm living with it, but i curse the engineer that burned the prom every day.

That sucks, the main reason I like KeyChron is the little switch on the side of mine that toggles between Mac and Windows! I wouldn't buy another keyboard without this feature TBH.

Well, seems to be popular on these kinda keyboards. At least my NuPhy has it.
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