Fashionably late, Royal Mail pulled through in the end and my K110 is here now too. Thanks for the double boxing, Maxmalkav! The keyboard looks in fantastic shape. I was instantly surprised by just how svelte it is. This wee thing is a proper, compact, lightweight little mechanical keyboard! Colour me impressed.
Naturally, I plugged it right on in to my Soarer box and I'm giving it a whirl just now. Initially, right Control didn't work — confirmed by running the all-seeing hid_listen which intercepts the raw inputs to the converter — but I jabbed it a dozen times or so in rapid succession and it's fine now. P is another problematic, persnickety, pain in the arse of a pricky key, but it's working almost as well now, too. These switches are that rare combination of unused yet also old. So you have a bit of archaeological breaking in to do! For me, that was just two keys. I've checked all of them with hid_listen. (The one switch it cannot see is Fn, which the keyboard's controller does not expose to the outside world, but Fn combos are working so it is also fine.)
This is my first impression of Montereys. Not bad! I wrote a big old review on
clicky black NMB space invaders just yesterday, on that board in this exact position, so the comparison is stark. This keyboard is so much smaller, really less than half the area, and the keys are so much lighter too! Both are good and clicky, but very differently so. Something tells me I'll be typing on this wee keyboard quite a lot, so I'll know more then.
In fact, this could be the perfect keyboard to try my first dedicated Soarer converter, using the Pro Micro that Scott suggested. My Soarer box has never looked as big before! Even my SSK feels huge compared to this.
@Scott: Definitely try your own guide and run Soarer's converter with your board. The diagnostic power of no-bullshit live output in a terminal window from hid_listen is reason enough alone.