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Keychron announces first open-source firmware for gaming mice

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

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Post by stasomatic »

Namidairo wrote: post #118
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…

> I like the EPOMAKER Magicforce Smart2 68-Key layout [0] . No QMK, but I get by with Karabiner, etc. Many Epomaker boards are just licensed to be sold under their brand name, most of them fairly transparently. (Ie. Epomaker x Aula, Leobog etc.) Quite a few of their configuration software packages end up looking quite horrible as a result, as I don't believe they have a unified software package for all the brands the…

At the time I purchased the one I linked to, it was sold under Qisan brand. I don't have any brand loyalty to either them or the Epomacher, I just prefer this specific "MagicForce 68 Smart" build - the layout, the quality, that it's only white backlit. It is really made well. If you can live without the F row, it's a great keyboard.

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

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Post by ghtbircshotbe »

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 only bought one keyboard from keychron and it was flaky from day one. It's the simplest keyboard they sold - wired, non hot swap. I don't know how to diagnose and fix the problem or I might try. In the end it wasn't worth $50, and you can get other Chinese mechanical keyboards for half the price with seemingly better quality control. Really can't recommend keychron

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

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Post by brookst »

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 like their products, but I recently discovered that two separate keyboards that I bought a couple of years ago are not actually hot swap despite claiming to be.

On the bright side, both demonstrated very strong solder joints when pulled on fairly aggressively.

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

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Post by kolmel »

jerlam wrote: post #16

This would be more exciting if Keychron had mice of more interesting / experimental form factors and functionality. Just like their keyboards, their mice are mostly differentiated by obscure technical features (polling rates!). I'm a bit worried that a decent, modern replacement for the extremely obsolete multi-button mouse I have now (Logitech G602) will never be available.

What about the Nape Pro? I haven’t used it personally, but I think it fits in the “interesting/experimental” category?

https://keychron.com.au/collections/mouse/products/keychron-...

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Post by RandomMarius »

But can it run DOOM?

My Pulsar mouse has an OLED display on the underside, DOOM could work... :P But it won't be able to use the firmware, neither would my Gaming Gear OP1.

I already have 2 Keychron HE TKL keyboards, both configured and used under Linux, and it was such a breath of fresh air to configure. I'll definitely consider their mice in the future.

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Post by seba_dos1 »

nijave wrote: post #165
seba_dos1 wrote: post #13

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> 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

Perhaps asking them to tag the releases is all that's needed then.

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Post by spike021 »

esseph wrote: post #131
spike021 wrote: post #113

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Here's one reddit thread about it: https://www.reddit.com/r/Keychron/comments/j28yzg/k2_v2_does... seems like there's a workaround but obviously far from ideal. edit: actually this may be the one I remember seeing at the time: https://www.reddit.com/r/Keychron/s/Dewr2dbVNX

This workaround? "For anyone finding this thread like I just did, all it took for me was plugging the keyboard into a usb 3.0 slot"

supposedly but i don't believe that worked for me at the time (I was connecting it to an m1 Mac Mini, which I believe has usb4 ports).

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

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Post by snapplebobapple »

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.

This is why i buy them. With the latest keyboards putting the usbc port on the left side *n a protected sunken enclosure they got good enough to use at wotk and i now have 70 or so of them deployed there to nearly uniformly rave reviews

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

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Post by snapplebobapple »

manaskarekar wrote: post #120
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…

You can disable the invocation of the lights. Fn + L + Light button for 6 seconds for the K series. YMMV depending on the exact model. https://keychronsupport.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360052... Their low profile keyboards are unmatched IMHO. Nothing has hit the balance that they have.

Also their he magnetic sensor keyboards are awesome especially for the price
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