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

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Post by snapplebobapple »

stasomatic wrote: post #169
DuncanCoffee wrote: post #161

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Mine is plugged in but not that used yet. Same deal its hard to change habits. I also find it slightly too big for my hands especially with the mouseball added. Its sad because it feels so qualoty and the ideas are awsome just my habits are slowing my adoption

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

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Post by miladyincontrol »

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…

Theres nothing about the moonlander that forces you to not be QWERTY though, and I'd bet most people are in fact on QWERTY with it.

Do you mean hard to quit staggered keyboards? As in the rows dont line up in a grid.

Personally I've been using ortholinear boards for over a decade to the point that its quite the opposite problem, it feels so unnatural to have to move your fingers in such directions. Sometimes there is just no home row quite like a 48 key planck's.

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

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Post by DobarDabar »

Evidlo wrote: post #73
DobarDabar wrote: post #7

Keychrone mice are already pretty nice, this is a welcome improvement

Their mice are pretty nice, and they come at a good price. The M7 is a particularly good device, and their other offerings have enticed me twice.

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

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Post by ssl-3 »

gblargg wrote: post #168
ssl-3 wrote: post #142

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

It's a pretty neat keyboard and I'm glad that I chose it.

And while I know some of how the Hall effect works, I didn't research how that relates to keyswitches at all before buying it. In terms of use, I just knew that they weren't clicky[1] and that they didn't rely upon electrical contacts that can corrode. It was risky in this way, but I was buying under duress since at the time I needed a new keyboard approximately yesterday.

Having the ability to shift this thing into a bunch of analog inputs was a complete and total surprise. I hope to be able to come up with something unique to do with the this function some day.

[1]: It turns out that my typing style didn't depend upon clicky at all. My hands, forearms, and wrists feel the same as they always have, and my typing speed still tops out at an accurate ~100WPM at times when that's useful. There was no adjustment period, which was a bit of a surprise.

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

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Post by u8080 »

unbolted3032 wrote: post #121

I bought two (identical) of these keyboards and they're by far the worst keyboard I've ever purchased. OOB, both had Bluetooth stability issues, dropping out at least 1-2 times a day, resulting in a sustained keypress being interpreted by the OS while they reconnectedddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd. Vendor support suggested upgrading the firmware (I was on the latest firmware) so I followed thei…

This is probably because of shitty Cypress/Infineon "iton_bt" bluetooth module used. Do you have K2/K6 ?

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

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Post by stasomatic »

miladyincontrol wrote: post #182
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…

Theres nothing about the moonlander that forces you to not be QWERTY though, and I'd bet most people are in fact on QWERTY with it. Do you mean hard to quit staggered keyboards? As in the rows dont line up in a grid. Personally I've been using ortholinear boards for over a decade to the point that its quite the opposite problem, it feels so unnatural to have to move your fingers in such directions. Sometimes there is…

Do you mean hard to quit staggered keyboards? As in the rows dont line up in a grid.

Perhaps. But also, during my 3-4 day infatuation phase, I spent too much time screwing around with remapping and thumb keys and layers with zero to show for it. I do not blame ortho/Moonlander/staggered, this was on me. I am a victim of having too many choices.

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

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Post by danudey »

NormenKD wrote: post #88
danudey wrote: post #85

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My only complaint is that the backlight behavior has like a dozen different settings, none of which are "off". There's "on", "flicker", "blink when you hit the key", "ripple out when you hit the key", "move in waves regardless of input", etc., but there's no "don't be light" option.

It's fn+light-key on my keychron. Might work on yours.

This works, thanks!

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

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Post by burner420042 »

supriyo-biswas wrote: post #150
burner420042 wrote: post #149

The number of buttons on ergonomic mice is excessive. More than 3 is too much. So I'm sitting there wondering what else you could use them for: a random squiggler to keep the mouse moving and your monitor active when you want a break.

I had a Logitech ergonomic mouse and by default, the two extra buttons corresponded to forward/back, and I had gotten quite used to them for navigating codebases. It's a shame the mouse didn't last long, though... As for the squiggler, put a wrist watch or something underneath it?

I think that's a myth. I've never gotten it to work repeatedly.

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

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Post by burner420042 »

aaviator42 wrote: post #152
burner420042 wrote: post #149

The number of buttons on ergonomic mice is excessive. More than 3 is too much. So I'm sitting there wondering what else you could use them for: a random squiggler to keep the mouse moving and your monitor active when you want a break.

When doing image editing and text copy editing, I find it very handy to have mouse thumb buttons mapped to copy / paste / cut / undo / redo / delete / shift / ctrl. Allows me to do a lot more with my mouse when I'm using it anyway to do stuff, without having to switch back and forth repeatedly with my keyboard.

Yes I agree. This idea differs from an OS dependent shortcut in that here the mouse firmware would generate movement data. Not possible before now.

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Post by theodric »

martinjc wrote: post #55
theodric wrote: post #51

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Just remap it! If you're on Windows, SharpKeys will do that for you. https://github.com/randyrants/sharpkeys

I have autohotkey for remapping. The issue is when i boot into a rpi with a new build, i don't want to pollute it with custom xbind mappings.

usbhidproxy would seem to fit the bill, then https://github.com/moonsightz/usbhidproxy
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