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Meanwhile I finally implemented media keys support in my firmware… only to find out that Windows doesn't properly support the optimized USB HID report I used for them. (I put the media keys into the reserved byte of the boot protocol -compatible report, which Mac and Linux support just fine, as they ...

So I think your updated Leyden Jar firmware could start with those figures as an initial version.

To avoid false hopes: I'm not working on any version of the Leyden Jar firmware, since all of my keyboards have a xwhatit's controller. (Still on the fence whether I "need" more keyboards, though I'm ...

Re. scan time and bins, on my F77 the calibration seems to first put keys into two bins, but it notices they are so close that it moves all of the keys into one bin. The scan time with one bin ends up at 0.63 ms. (I haven't made external tools for the firmware so it has a debug mode where it uses ...

I like your idea to set the number of bins based on the number of keys with different bins, and turn off / not use more bins than necessary. Would this be implementable in the new Leyden Jar Vial firmware (linked below)? For example, it could set each bin for all keys with a resting value of a ...

Rico notes that matrix scans are 3 times faster on the Leyden Jar compared to the xwhatsit controller (720us to scan 18 columns compared to xwhatsit's around 2ms since it is a 500hz polling rate). In other words, 5 bins would be 5 x 720us = about 3.5ms total scan time for 5 bins on the Leyden Jar ...

This is what I would like to achieve:
o I would like to have the Globe/fn key (as a key code) available for MacOS windows management as well as for bringing up the character viewer.
o In addition, I would want the function keys acting as the media keys etc. as available on an original Apple ...

So, I got the F50 to serve as a numpad for the F62. (In case anyone is interested, I also implemented support for it in my AAKBD firmware .)

I just put a lot of F-keys in the two leftmost blocks for now, and blank keys in the numpad split positions while I'm considering the layout. Any ideas for ...

The QMK codebase has only been getting larger (some might even say more bloated?) over time. Some of the newer features are nice, to be sure, but it's seemingly not possible (at least without a LOT of creative re-optimization) to get all of them to simultaneously fit within the tiny ATmega's ...

EDIT 2: I'm starting to think that must be what's going on. A cursory glance at quantum/via.h suggests that VIA defines the offset for its own magic number as EECONFIG_SIZE, so VIA itself is assuming that it can safely store its own stuff in EEPROM immediately after the end of the EECONFIG block ...

The Arkku calibration routine adds a whopping 3K of additional code to QMK, compared to pandrew's. My builds of Vial were already on the tight side, with only ~1K of space to spare.


Hmm, this does not correspond to what I remember the difference being. Are you comparing with the same ...

The DAC is 4 times more precise on your keyboard than the new ones, [...]

I'd love to know what you are referring to here? It's news to me that (aside from the matrix mapping) there are significant differences between the original xwhatsit controllers, and the "shrunken" wcass version that ...

i think this is built into qmk and the slave half communicates with the master half. come to think of it, even corne and other various splits do this. i hope my response was clear enough.

see this too
https://github.com/qmk/qmk_firmware/blob/master/docs/feature_split_keyboard.md


Yes, QMK ...

--> My dream would be to have a dual use keyboard firmware by supporting both the original Win-ISO-DE layout and a MacOs ISO-DE. The QMK layering should support this: Layers 0-2 for say Mac. Then some key combination to get to layers 3-5 for Win and back. Is that feasible? Did some of you ever do ...

Like you, I put Control where the Caps Lock legend lives on modern keyboards.


Another option then is to swap Ctrl and Caps Lock in firmware, and then map Caps Lock (which is now at the lower left corner, where the Ctrl key would normally be) to Globe/Fn. That also coincides with the Fn key ...

I still would like to know how to teach my F77 firmware to actually send the globe.


I assume you mean how to get the firmware itself to send it, without the Karabiner Elements (which you are already using, and that can do it by remapping a key) or macOS keyboard settings (where you can change ...

So in the newest Apple OS update you can set the Fn key and there is no longer a need to update the keyboard ID to get all of the Mac keyboard functionality?


The setting is "what to do when the Fn key is pressed", not "which key to use as Fn". I tried by plugging a full third-party USB keyboard ...

Worth noting: Apple's been slowly migrating Fn into the globe key.


Yes, good point; I believe they are technically the same key, but just printed with a different legend, and at least the Fn key on older Apple keyboards works as the Globe key when plugged into an iPad (for example).

The name ...

Disgusting practice by Apple, assuming there's no other way to achieve the same functionality, I wonder how come they haven't been sued about this.

I have no idea how apple keyboard function key is supposed to behave, since I don't have any apple computers, but Unicomp Spacesaver M keyboards (the ...

Could you please let me know what you mean by 'breaking utilities'?


Ah, it simply means that utilities made specifically for these keyboards (such as pandrew's utility that allows you to check the capacitance levels of the keys) won't recognise it anymore, because they expect a certain keyboard ...

2.) I see no Mac funtion key, but somewhere it is mentioned the right Ctrl key makes up for this. Could not the right blank key between Cmd and Opt act as funtion key? If yes: How can this be achieved?


If you want an actual Apple Fn key that is recognised as exactly equivalent to Apple's Fn ...

sedevidi wrote: 04 Apr 2023, 12:58 That mystery split USB-C cable could be the key... Each controller could spy on the other one's USB traffic, or some wires inside the cable could be routed between both halfs.

Yeah, if split cable means that it connects the two halves in the middle, then of course the cable can be why it works.

it should certainly be possible as I have used split keebs from http://www.rgkbk.net and using split usb-c cables.


The link doesn't work, so just to confirm: do both cables go to the computer and no cable between the two halves of the keyboard? And then holding an Fn key (that is not Apple Fn ...

Regarding the Fn key on split keyboards, I am hoping the QMK and Via experts can see what workarounds are possible, if any.


If each half has its own USB cable and shows up as a separate keyboard, the solution would need to be done in the computer side. A hybrid solution would theoretically be ...

I noticed that the latest QMK firmware won't compile anymore with support for these keyboards. I made the (minimum) necessary changes to get them to compile in my QMK fork at https://github.com/arkku/qmk_firmware . I didn't actually test whether it works (since I'm using my own AAKBD firmware), but ...

Ellipse wrote: 03 Jan 2023, 02:05 That is the round 1 style case, ANSI only.

Would the ISO keyboard fit in that style of case? Any chance of selling just the case from round 1?

Which case style is this, is it available in round 2? I would want to have this case keyboard with ISO layout, and this picture is also on the round 2 order page... I don't like the bulky style of the other pictured cases. (I did qualify for round 1, but as I understand, only ANSI layout keyboards ...

Since there's multiple versions, recently I remember someone new making a custom version, is there a preferred one or most up to date?

The someone would probably be me, and obviously I prefer my own firmware, but there is no easy web configurator to build it. Or, more precisely, my completely ...

sedevidi wrote: 05 Oct 2022, 17:18 It does have yet another USB ID, for no other reason than the bad original choice. Since then, Ellipse registered the cool ones.

Yes, I am also using the new USB ids in mine. (And I did patch the utility accordingly as well.)

Have you got a thread for this, Arkku? Think I’ve always seen your work here in Ellipse’s tornado alley.

I’m still running your customised QMK, just as you sent me, and it’s working perfectly as defined. Is that a project you’re interested in maintaining as well as your own AAKBD?


I haven't ...

Will you also accept a JSON file generated by Vial, not the standard QMK/VIA system? I'm not sure they follow the same format.
Since I don't change my layout anymore, and the keyboard (F77) is stable, I may have time to try or switch to your firmware.


To clarify terms, "my firmware" is called ...